Build American AI Pushes Anti-China Campaign

This is less a product story than a glimpse at how aggressively AI money is shaping the policy narrative around the industry.

• –The campaign mixes lifestyle influencer content with geopolitical fear, which makes the messaging harder to spot than a standard political ad buy.
• –It shows how AI companies and their allies are trying to steer regulation toward federal preemption and away from state-level constraints.
• –OpenAI and Palantir say they did not directly fund the groups, but the affiliations are still enough to make this politically radioactive.
• –For builders, the practical takeaway is that AI policy is now being fought with the same playbook as consumer marketing: branding, targeting, and narrative control.
• –The China framing is doing double duty, selling both national-security urgency and a lighter-touch regulatory environment.