Meeting brought together names like Zuckerberg and Gates; Owner of Tesla, who is broken with the White House, said he was invited, but cannot participate
The President of the United States, (Republican Party), received this Thursday (4.Set.2025) more than 20 technology and business executives at a White House dinner in Washington DC The meeting featured names like Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Tim Cook, Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Sam Altman (OpenAi), but did not include CEO of Tesla and from Spacex ,.
Musk has been broken with Trump since May 2025, when the 2 began to exchange public criticism. The businessman was one of the main supporters of the Republican during the 2024 election campaign. He left the counselor of the Doge (Department of Government Efficiency) on May 28.
The departure was planned, since Musk could not exceed the legal limit of 130 days for special government officials, but was anticipated and, 1 day before the announcement, he said he was “Disappointed” with the government budget bill sent to Congress.
In a publication at X, Tesla’s CEO this Thursday (4.Set) was invited to the event at the White House, but that “unfortunately” I could not attend. “A representative of mine will be there”these.
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According to the White House, there were executives from companies such as Google, Oracle, Blue Origin, Micron Technology, Palantir, AMD and Scale Ai.
During dinner, Zuckerberg sat on the right side of Trump, while the first lady Melania took the place to the left of the president, with Bill Gates positioned next to her.
At the event, Zuckerberg announced to the president that the goal will invest at least $ 600 billion in the United States in the coming years “To build data centers and infrastructure that will boost the next wave of innovation”.
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. CEO Mark Zuckerberg tells his company will invest “at least $600 billion” in the U.S. over the next several years “to build out data centers and infrastructure to power the next wave of innovation.”
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Among the gifts were:
- Mark Zuckerberg (Meta);
- Tim Cook (Apple);
- Bill Gates (Microsoft);
- Satya Nadella (Microsoft);
- Sundar pichai (google);
- Sergey Brin (Google);
- Sam Altman (OpenAi);
- Safra Catz (Oracle);
- Lisa Su (AMD);
- David Limp (Blue Origin);
- Sanjay Mehrotra (Micron Technology);
- Shyam Sankar (Palaantir);
- Alexandr Wang (Scale AI);
- Vivek Ranadive (TIBCO Software);
- Jared Isaacman (Shift4 Payments).
The meeting was held on the same day that Melania Trump led an event on artificial intelligence education in which he argued that technology will become the “The largest engine of progress in the history of the United States”.
