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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Thursday, July 18th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Big names in Tech are putting their support in their money behind Donald Trump's

presidential campaign. We'll tell you whether it signals a brewing culture

change in traditionally liberal Silicon Valley. And then the Chinese government is putting a lot of resources behind the country's

generative artificial intelligence companies as they work to gain ground on U., but China's political controls threaten to weigh down

those efforts. We'll explain how that could affect China's position in the AI race.

But first, earlier this week we reported that Elon Musk has told people he will donate around 45 million dollars a month to a pro-Trump

super political action committee called America Pack. Other big Silicon Valley names

say they plan to donate to organizations supporting Trump too.

It seems to signal a shift in the historically liberal home of the tech sector.

Here to tell us more about this is our reporter Dana Matioli.

Dana, what do we know about why Musk is putting so much money into America Pack?

Elon Musk, we've noticed this political shift with him over the last year or so.

Prior elections, he's been an independent or he's acknowledged that he's voted for Democrats,

and we've seen him start to express angst with the Democratic Party under President

Biden.

He hasn't agreed with some of the more liberal-leaning ideals like diversity, equity, and inclusion.

He has felt like the Biden administration has slighted him when it comes to Elon's role at

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