AI-backed super PACs have spent over $27 million in New York's congressional primaries, borrowing crypto's political playbook to fight AI safety regulation.

The massive spending and heated rhetoric in midterm races reflect the AI industry's political fault lines and competing visions of what the future should look like.

Congressional primaries in three US states will likely be the crypto industry’s next proving ground for the 2026 election cycle after many of its supported candidates won races…