Two AI labs are funding rival super PACs to pick your next member of Congress. SoftBank pledges seventy-five billion euros to power France while a federal regulator decides who pays for the grid. A Trump-linked startup ships humanoid robots toward the front line in Ukraine. A Big Four firm gets caught publishing hallucinated citations. And the week ends with investors, a Pope, and the White House AI czar all circling the same word: power.

• Public First vs Leading the Future: the campaign-money fight over AI rules
• SoftBank's €75B France bet and FERC's June grid proposal
• Foundation Robotics, Eric Trump, and autonomous humanoids in war
• EY's fabricated citations and corporate America rationing AI
• Bill Gurley, Pope Leo, David Sacks, and the centralization question
• Terence Tao on what AI actually changed for mathematicians