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Nvidia, Anthropic and OpenAI Set Q3 Lobbying Records at $2.2M, $2.1M and $1.5M as Antitrust Talks Begin

Summary

Q3 2026 Senate filings show Nvidia at $2.2M, Anthropic at $2.1M, and OpenAI at $1.5M in lobbying spend — all record highs for each company. Meta still led Big Tech at $5.9M for the quarter. OpenAI listed AI-security information-sharing with antitrust protections among its topics; Anthropic specifically backed the Collaboration on Adversarial Threats and Security Risks Act, which would let labs share threat data without antitrust exposure.