{
  "id": 95422,
  "title": "Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/congresss-favorite-ai-tool-chatgpt",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-03T16:40:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechCrunch",
    "slug": "techcrunch",
    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/congresss-favorite-ai-tool-chatgpt/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "According to a CNBC report, OpenAI's ChatGPT has emerged as Congress's top AI tool in terms of money spent. House offices, committees, and institutional accounts collectively allocated approximately $100,580 across 798 transactions for ChatGPT during the fiscal year ending March 31. This accounted for roughly 90% of all spending on AI tools by Congressional entities.\n\nClaude from Anthropic came in second place, with $13,160 spent on 37 transactions. Democratic offices took the lead in AI expenditures, allocating $54,165, which is three times the $15,782 spent by Republican offices. The analysis does not include any AI adoption by Congress from free accounts or AI bundled into broader software contracts.\n\nCongressional staffers have been leveraging ChatGPT and other AI tools for a variety of tasks. These include writing memos, summarizing and analyzing legislation, responding to constituents, preparing materials for hearings, sorting through policy research, and even drafting social media posts. The report does not provide details on the specifics of these uses.",
  "summary": "House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Digital Trends",
        "title": "ChatGPT Pro replaced Gemini Notebook as my favorite research app, and I didn’t see it coming",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/04/chatgpt-pro-replaced-gemini-notebook-as-my-favorite-research-app-and",
        "published": "2026-08-04T16:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}