TNB Tech Minute: Ford Discussed Bringing Chinese Tech to America With Automaker Geely
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:34.0 | Friday, April 24th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. We exclusively report that Ford Motor |
| 0:40.7 | and Chinese automaker Jee Lee held talks this year about a potential U.S. tie-up, but those discussions |
| 0:47.0 | have stalled. People familiar with the discussions say the companies are now focused on a deal to |
| 0:52.0 | share technology and manufacturing capacity in Europe. |
| 0:55.6 | Gile is China's second largest automaker behind B.YD. It's eager to expand in the profitable |
| 1:00.5 | U.S. market, but faces major hurdles to doing so. Chinese automakers are effectively banned and face high |
| 1:06.9 | tariffs. A Ford spokesman said a U.S. deal with a Chinese automaker contradicts its commitment |
| 1:11.8 | to protecting its home market. A Gilly spokeswoman declined to comment on rumors or speculation |
| 1:17.0 | regarding potential partnerships. Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in additional capital in |
| 1:24.7 | Anthropic. A spokesperson for the AI company said Google will invest |
| 1:28.8 | $10 billion now at its $350 billion valuation, with up to $30 billion more if the company |
| 1:35.9 | meets certain performance milestones. Anthropic recently secured up to $65 billion in new funding |
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