Here's an example of what Elon Musk's super PAC did with Donald Trump and AI. They sent texts to voters that used AI to create personalized videos of Trump using their first names to encourage them to turn out. "We need voters like you, Kathleen.”

INSIDE ELON MUSK'S $500 MILLION FLOP Erratic. Distracted. Extravagant. Effective? Behind the scenes of the Musk bet on the midterms, with loads of details on how it all went down.

OFFICIAL NEW YORK TIMES LIST OF THE BIGGEST MIDTERMS DONORS: 1. Elon Musk, $446 million 2. Dick + Liz Uihlein, $150 million 3. One Nation, $138 million 4. Marc Andreessen + Ben Horowitz, $116 million 5. Jeff Yass, $110 million 6. Majority Forward, $104 million 7. George + Alex Soros, $103 million 8. House Majority Forward, $97 million 9. Mike Bloomberg, $85 million 10. Ripple Labs + Chris Larsen, $73 million 11. Miriam Adelson, $68 million 12. American Action Network, $64 million 13. Coinbase, $55 million 14. Paul Singer, $54 million 15. Cameron + Tyler Winklevoss, $53 million 16. Greg + Anna Brockman, $50 million 17. American Prosperity Alliance, $48 million 18. Koch Inc., $47 million 19. Reid Hoffman, $42 million 20. Economic Opportunity Fund, $42 million

NEWS. More AI fallout ahead of the midterms. Greg Brockman, the OpenAI co-founder, is no longer making the second $25 million donation promised to the super PAC Leading the Future. Scoop with @MikeIsaac.

NEWS: Here comes the crypto industry’s big spending against Democrats. Fairshake is going to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio’s Senate race. It’s payback after Senate Dems torpedoed the CLARITY Act.

Fascinating to see Republicans run on AI safety. New spot from the group Alliance for A Better Future backing Mike Rogers and using recent comments from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei. Rogers is probably the most vocal guardrails-minded GOP Senate nominee, and now gets air cover for it.

Fairshake will report holding a massive $122.8 million in cash on hand in an FEC report later today. No word yet on its fall spending plans but the CLARITY Act vote, expected in September, looms large.

NEW — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave $1 million to Public First, the super PAC seeking to slow down AI development with new regulations, per filing tonight. This is I believe Dario’s first significant political donation. $2 million+ came from other Anthropic employees.

NEW — It pays to be friends with Elon Musk. Meet Antonio Gracias. He invested in SpaceX again and again and again, and now stands atop a $65 billion stake in the world's largest IPO. Gracias is surely going to make billions himself. What will he do with it?