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

Prime tech names have been on the visitor record for the banquet thrown for President Trump throughout his second state go to to the UK on Wednesday.

The banquet seating chart included NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang; Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner; enterprise capitalist and White Home 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, in line with the New York Occasions.

On Thursday, the US and UK signed a partnership known as the Tech Prosperity Deal to concentrate on growing nuclear, AI, and quantum applied sciences. Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI additionally made bulletins earlier this week to construct information facilities within the UK, whereas CoreWeave and Salesforce introduced a multi-billion-pound funding within the nation. Total, American tech companies dedicated a complete of £31 billion ($42 billion) to spice up AI infrastructure within the UK.

This state banquet visitor record appears to have featured extra tech and enterprise names reasonably than the Hollywood sorts that always attend such affairs.

This variation reveals the shifting financial wants of the UK and US within the age of AI, and the rising prominence of know-how and its leaders in Trump’s second administration. Simply this previous yr, quite a few Huge Tech firms like OpenAI, Google, and Apple have pledged to work with the federal government, from offering AI assistant instruments to authorities providers to constructing digital well being ecosystems for the U.S. well being trade.

The president has additionally taken a sharper concentrate on tech — criticizing Tim Cook dinner for Apple’s outsourced provide chain, signing an “anti-work” AI order, in addition to instructing the lawyer basic to analyze non-public firms receiving federal funds which have DEI packages deemed “unlawful.”

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and different tech leaders attended the president’s inauguration this yr. And, in early September, President Trump threw a tech dinner with 33 high names in Silicon Valley, together with Altman, Cook dinner, and Zuckerberg. Musk, a former senior advisor to the president, as soon as referred to as “First Buddy“, was not current at both dinner.