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President Donald Trump is set to host a dinner at the White House for a select list of technology industry titans this Thursday night. The guest list, according the White House, features the likes of Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, among others.
As reports indicate, the guest list excludes Elon Musk, a once close associate of President Trump, who was tasked with heading the Department of Government Efficiency. Earlier this year, Trump and Musk had a public split, causing a notable shift in their relationship.
The location for this gathering of tech leaders is the White House’s Rose Garden. In a statement, White House spokesman Davis Ingle called the Rose Garden Club “the hottest place to be in Washington, or perhaps the world”, and expressed the President’s anticipation for welcoming top leaders from business, politics, and technology sectors to this and future events held on the Rose Garden patio.
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This development follows earlier reports that the dinner will be a subsequent event to a meeting of the White House’s new Artificial Intelligence Education task force, which will be led by First Lady Melania Trump. It has been reported that some of the dinner attendees are expected to participate in this task force meeting, aimed at developing AI education for American youth.
The guest list for the dinner is also set to include other prominent figures from the tech industry, namely Google founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and founder Greg Brockman, Oracle CEO Safra Catz, Blue Origin CEO David Limp, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, TIBCO Software chairman Vivek Ranadive, Palantir executive Shyam Sankar, Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang and Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman.
Isaacman, a former associate of Musk, was once nominated by Trump to lead NASA, only to have the nomination withdrawn around the time of his fallout with Musk. Trump cited the revocation of the nomination as one of the reasons Musk was upset with him and labeled Isaacman “totally a Democrat.”
This gathering of tech giants, with the notable absence of Elon Musk, raises important questions about the dynamics of political and business relationships in the technology industry.
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