Yesterday, news broke that Apple CEO Tim Cook was one of many tech CEOs who had been invited for a “White House event on AI hosted by first lady Melania Trump.” Now, has a few details of how the event went.Taking turns to praise Trump As reported by the , the list of tech CEOs at tonight’s dinner included OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who sat alongside Trump), Microsoft founder and ex-CEO Bill Gates, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, among others: While Altman thanked Trump for being “such a pro-business, pro-innovation president,” contrasting it with the Biden administration, Cook reportedly highlighted Apple’s recent domestic commitments when it was his turn to praise the President: Cook, of course, was referring to the recent repackaging of Apple’s domestic investments into the $600 billion American Manufacturing Program.During the event, Trump also asked Pichai about this week’s favorable decision in the antitrust case that could have compelled it to sell Chrome and Android, and stop its partnerships with Apple and Mozilla: As observed by the , a few notable absences from today’s dinner included Elon Musk, as well as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
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