--- title: OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an... description: OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife quietly pulled out of a planned second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a pro-AI super PAC, after telling staff... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-greg-brockman-drops-his-second-25m-gift-to-an-ai-super-pac-zvydgefrv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife quietly pulled out of a planned second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a pro-AI super PAC, after telling staff... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-greg-brockman-drops-his-second-25m-gift-to-an-ai-super-pac-zvydgefrv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZVydgEfRv.png og:image:alt: OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife quietly pulled out of a planned second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a pro-AI super PAC, after telling staff in a June Slack message that the group had become a distraction. OpenAI had publicly distanced itself from the PAC days earlier, and employees had criticized the donation as an attempt to block AI regulation; some pooled money for a rival PAC, the Guardrails Alliance. Groups aligned with OpenAI and Anthropic have spent $55.7m on 2026 congressional races, and Brockman still signed Trump's AI accord this week while OpenAI seeks $30bn in new funding. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Did Greg Brockman give a second $25 million donation to Leading the Future super PAC? No, Greg Brockman and his wife Anna did not follow through on the planned second $25m donation to Leading the Future. The pro-AI super PAC had said the couple would give $50m total, split across 2025 and 2026, but the second payment never arrived. Brockman told OpenAI staff in June he had no plans to donate more, citing the distraction it caused internally. _Developers tracking AI industry politics and funding follow stories like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [What AI companies want for their midterm millions](https://daily.dev/posts/what-ai-companies-want-for-their-midterm-millions-obr7tmhs7) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI companies are spending millions to thwart this former tech exec’s Congressional bid](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-companies-are-spending-millions-to-thwart-this-former-tech-exec-s-congressional-bid-sj2g1ze5d) · TechCrunch · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic), [#ai-governance](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-governance) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-greg-brockman-drops-his-second-25m-gift-to-an-ai-super-pac-zvydgefrv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-greg-brockman-drops-his-second-25m-gift-to-an-ai-super-pac-zvydgefrv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-greg-brockman-drops-his-second-25m-gift-to-an-ai-super-pac-zvydgefrv"},"datePublished":"2026-10-01T12:57:51.961Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T18:06:42.823Z","description":"OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife quietly pulled out of a planned second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a pro-AI super PAC, after telling staff...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4dc7805ffaa6585e937c4fed22585fe5?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4dc7805ffaa6585e937c4fed22585fe5?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-greg-brockman-drops-his-second-25m-gift-to-an-ai-super-pac-zvydgefrv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"openai,anthropic,ai-governance","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-greg-brockman-drops-his-second-25m-gift-to-an-ai-super-pac-zvydgefrv#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Did Greg Brockman give a second $25 million donation to Leading the Future super PAC?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"No, Greg Brockman and his wife Anna did not follow through on the planned second $25m donation to Leading the Future. 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