AI Money and Anxiety Are Powering This Election Cycle
THE SO WHAT
When AI money funds candidates and AI tools generate their ads, the tech stack becomes part of the political story, not just a backdrop. For platforms and AI vendors, election-year deployments are now reputational and regulatory events, not routine GTM decisions.
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