Welcome to Eye on AI, with AI reporter Sharon Goldman in for Jeremy Kahn, who is traveling. In this edition…AI politics in a New York congressional race…Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships…Cloudflare outage causes internet outages including AI sites such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity…Jeff Bezos creates AI start-up where he will be co-CEO..Sam Altman and Masayoshi Son back new AI research lab aiming to revive the spirit of Bell Labs…Japanese AI darling Sakana AI raises $135 million at $2.65 billion valuation.
Leading the Future — a $100 million pro-AI super PAC formed in August and backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI president Greg Brockman — has identified its first target: Alex Bores, a Democratic congressional candidate running for the New York seat being vacated by Rep. Jerrold Nadler after three decades in Congress.
