Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, October 7th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

President Trump has been sharing memes generated by artificial intelligence on his social media pages,

particularly in response to the current government shutdown. He and his team say they're all in good jest.

Others don't find them very amusing.

Plus, we'll hear about an independent space company

looking to challenge industry giants like SpaceX and Blue Origin.

But first, President Trump has been increasingly sharing AI-generated meme videos to poke fun at

his political opponents or project an image of strength. So what does it mean for the president

to be sharing that kind of content? WSJ reporter Amrith Ramkumar joins me now. So Amrith, for people

who haven't seen these AI-generated meme videos on

Trump's truth social or acts, could you describe some of them?

AI-generated videos, the president has been posting on his truth social account. They're

tended to be satirical, but they have offended a lot of people and Democrats have called them racist.

The most prominent example shows Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader in the house wearing a sombr people and Democrats have called them racist. The most prominent example shows

Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader in the House, wearing a sombrero, and him and Chuck Schumer

talking in clearly AI-generated voices. Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because

of all of our woke trans bull... Earlier in the year, one that got a lot of attention was a video

portraying Trump, Gaza,

with the Gaza Strip sort of reimagined as a Trump-like resort.

He even posted one recently where he was throwing a Trump-2020 hat onto Hakeem Jeffrey's head inside the Oval Office.

But it is also important to note that even Gavin Newsom, the California governor, has been doing

this, and he posted one of Mike Johnson, this House Speaker as a minion, sort of saying that he was

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