The top technical name was on the guest list at a banquet thrown for President Trump during his second visit to the state on Wednesday.
The banquet seating chart included Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Tim Cook, Apple CEO. Venture Capitalists, White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks. Ruth Polatt, the Alphabet and Google Chairman. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce. According to the New York Times, Sam Altman of Open.
On Thursday, the US and the UK signed a partnership called Tech Prosperity Deal, focusing on the development of nuclear, AI and quantum technologies. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Openai made an announcement earlier this week to build a data centre in the UK, while Coreweave and Salesforce announced their multi-billion pound investments in the country. Overall, American tech companies have committed a total of 31 billion pounds ($42 billion) to boost AI infrastructure in the UK.
The guest list at this state banquet appears to feature more technology and business names than the type of Hollywood who often attend such duties.
This change reveals the changing economic needs of the UK and the US in the age of AI, as well as the remarkable rise in technology and its leadership in Trump’s second administration. Just over the past year, numerous major tech companies, including Openai, Google and Apple, have committed to working with the government to work with AI assistant tools, from providing government services to building a digital health ecosystem for the US health industry.
The president has also focused on Tech on criticizing Tim Cook in Apple’s outsourcing supply chain, signing “conflict” AI orders and directing the Attorney General to investigate private companies receiving federal funds that the DEI program deems “illegal.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and other technical leaders attended the president’s inauguration this year. And in early September, President Trump threw tech dinners under 33 top names in Silicon Valley, including Altman, Cook and Zuckerberg. Musk, a former senior adviser to the president, once known as the “first buddy,” was not at either dinner.
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