Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and more attend Trump’s UK state banquet

Top tech names were connected the impermanent database for the banquet thrown for President Trump during his 2nd authorities sojourn to the UK connected Wednesday. 

The banquet seating illustration included NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang; Apple CEO Tim Cook; task capitalist and White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks; Alphabet and Google president Ruth Porat; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, according to the New York Times.

On Thursday, the US and UK signed a partnership called the Tech Prosperity Deal to absorption connected processing nuclear, AI, and quantum technologies. Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI besides made announcements earlier this week to physique information centers successful the UK, portion CoreWeave and Salesforce announced a multi-billion-pound concern successful the country. Overall, American tech firms committed a full of £31 cardinal ($42 billion) to boost AI infrastructure successful the UK.

This authorities banquet impermanent database seems to person featured much tech and concern names rather than the Hollywood types that often be specified affairs.

This alteration reveals the shifting economical needs of the UK and US successful the property of AI, and the rising prominence of exertion and its leaders successful Trump’s 2nd administration. Just this past year, galore Big Tech companies similar OpenAI, Google, and Apple person pledged to enactment with the government, from providing AI adjunct tools to authorities services to building integer wellness ecosystems for the U.S. wellness industry.

The president has besides taken a sharper absorption connected tech — criticizing Tim Cook for Apple’s outsourced proviso chain, signing an “anti-work” AI order, arsenic good arsenic instructing the lawyer wide to analyse private companies receiving national funds that person DEI programs deemed “illegal.”

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and different tech leaders attended the president’s inauguration this year. And, successful aboriginal September, President Trump threw a tech meal with 33 apical names successful Silicon Valley, including Altman, Cook, and Zuckerberg. Musk, a erstwhile elder advisor to the president, erstwhile known arsenic “First Buddy“, was not contiguous astatine either dinner.