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How the coverage framed it

Coverage was largely uniform across the outlets, with an overall bias spread of just 0.5 points. Headlines consistently employed neutral market-growth or policy-timeline language, as in Axios’s “Anthropic, OpenAI blow past Starbucks, McDonald's amid AI boom” and the first Politico piece stating that “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington as AI policy deadline nears.” The single modest departure came in the second Politico headline, which quoted an executive urging policymakers to “clamp down on China,” introducing an anti-China signal absent elsewhere. No outlet used loaded domestic-policy terms or partisan framing; instead, all centered on corporate expansion and impending regulatory timing without detectable ideological inflection.