US President Donald Trump, Meta -CEO Mark Zuckerberg and White House Ai Tsar David Sacks attend a private dinner for technology and business leaders in the dining room of the state in the White House in Washington, DC, US, 4 September 2025. | Photocredit: Reuters/Brian Snyder
US President Donald Trump organized a powerful group of technical managers in the White House on Thursday, showing research into artificial intelligence and boasted investments that companies make in the United States.
“This brings our country to a new level,” he said in the center of a long table surrounded by what he described as “High IQ people”.
It was the newest example of a delicate two -way grazing between Trump and Tech Leaders, some of whom attended his inauguration.
Trump has exhausted the attention of some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, while the companies would like to stay on the right side of the Mercurial President.
While the managers praised Trump and talked about their hope of technological progress, the Republican president was aimed at dollar signs. He went around the table and asked managers how much they invested in the country.
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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, who was right to Trump’s, said USD 600 billion. Apple’s Tim Cook said the same thing. Google’s Sundar Pichai said USD 250 billion.
“What about Microsoft?” Said Trump. “That’s a large number.” CEO Satya Nadella said it was USD 80 billion a year.
“Good,” Trump replied. “Very good.” In particular in the guest list, Elon Musk, once a narrow ally of Trump was the task of running the Ministry of Government Efficiency. Musk had a public apart with Trump earlier this year.
At the table, instead was one of Musk’s rivals in artificial intelligence, Sam Altman of OpenAi.
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In another reflection of shifting loyalty in the world of Trump, the dinner Jared Isaacman, who founded the payment processing company Shift4, included.
Isaacman was a musk fellow fellow chosen by Trump to lead NASA just to withdraw his nomination because, in Trump’s words, he was “totally a democrat”.
The dinner was expected to be held in the Roseluin, where Trump was recently paved over the grassy lawn and set up tables, chairs and umbrellas that seem striking to the outdoor setup in his Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.
But due to bad weather, officials decided to move the event to the dining room of the White House.
The dinner went in, followed Ai Education Task Force
The event followed at an afternoon meeting of the new Task Force of the White House, the Task Force for Education in artificial intelligence, in which First Lady Melania Trump was chairman and some technical leaders participated.
“The robots are here. Our future is no longer Science Fiction,” she said.
Pichai, IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna and Code.org President Cameron Wilson belonged to those who participated in the Task Force.
The White House confirmed that the guest list for dinner also contained Microsoft fellow founder Bill Gates; Google founder Sergey Brin; OpenAi founder Greg Brockman; Oracle CEO Safra Catz; Blue origin CEO David Limp; Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra; Tibco -Softwaretoever Vivek Ranadive; Palantir Executive Shyam Sankar; Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang; and Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman.
Guest list contains Gates, Brin, Altman and others
The Outreach from Trump to Toptexecutives is occasionally divided within the Republican Party.
One of Trump’s best allies in the congress, Senator Josh Hawley, provided a sharp criticism of the technical industry on Thursday morning during a speech at a conservative conference in Washington.
He criticized the lack of regulation on artificial intelligence and excluded Meta and Chatgpt.
“The government must inspect all these border systems, so that we can better understand what the Tech Titans are planning to build and destroy,” said Missouri’s senator.
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Trump has embraced AI-created images and often shares it online, despite his complaints earlier in the week about the technology used to make misleading videos.
Late on Wednesday evening he placed a series by AI generated memes and videos, such as one that reflects him that interacted with the man in the Cracker vessel logo, one that shows the Californian Democratic Senator Adam Schiff with an extremely elongated neck, and a cracel’s face that looks like a polar booker.
On Tuesday, Trump said that a video with items that are thrown from an upper window of the White House must have been made by AI, even though his team seemed to have confirmed the truthfulness of the video hours earlier.
Trump then said: “If something happens, it is really bad, maybe I just have to blame Ai.” The First Lady, during her event on Thursday, also emphasized both the potential and the danger of AI.
“As leaders and parents, we have to manage the growth of AI in a responsible manner,” she said, called on both action and caution “during this primitive stage, it is our duty to treat AI as we would do our own children – empowerment, but with vigilant guidance.” Last month, the First Lady launched a national competition for students in the K-12 classes to use AI to complete a project or start a community challenge. The project was aimed at showing the benefits of AI, but the First Lady has also emphasized its disadvantages.
This year, Melania Trump lobbyed to the congress to adopt legislation that imposes punishments for online sexual exploitation with the help of images that are real or a deep -food generated by AI.
The president signed the “Take It Down Act” in May.
Published on September 5, 2025
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