The technological giants Google and Microsoft contributed $1 million each to the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20 in Washington, adding to the contributions that other major players in the sector have previously announced.
In addition to the financial contribution, Google intends to “support the event” with a live on youtube, Plus a direct link on her portal, as noted today to CNBC.
Microsoft also told the network today that it will donate one million dollars to the event, an announcement following a blog post published last week by its president, Brad Smith, in which he called for a “strategy” “Support American Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the world.”
Major tech companies are donating to Trump’s inauguration
That $1 million is what they donated Meta, OpenAI (creator of the popular ChatGPT) and Amazon, which will also broadcast the event via Prime Video, as you know.
regarding apple, Its CEO, Tim Cook, will personally contribute another million, according to media outlet Axios, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Beyond the approach of the technological titans to Trump, from whom for years they remained distant and even critical, in the case of Google There are more specific reasons Ask now to get closer to a Republican, CNBC recalled.
Specifically, Trump has not ruled out running for office during his term new antitrust measures, An issue that has been circulating in Google for years and has been reflected in several court cases opened in the company’s dominant position in two areas, internet search engines and advertising.
According to the New York Times, The committee was appointed ‘ad hoc’ by Trump to organize and manage donations They have already managed to raise 170 million dollars, comes in most cases from the state’s large capital.
The number of individuals who donated money to such a big event – that’s what the newspaper promises Exceeded the capacity of the so-called ‘VIP seats’ Save for the gala dinner that Trump himself will attend, and some donors have already been warned they won’t get priority access cards.
