Overview

• CEOs including Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Sam Altman and Bill Gates attended the Sept. 4/5 event, while Elon Musk said he could not go and sent a representative.
• Executives cited multibillion-dollar U.S. plans: Meta and Apple around $600 billion each by 2028, Google $250 billion, and Microsoft up to about $80 billion per year.
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman lauded Trump as an industry- and innovation-friendly president, and Apple’s Tim Cook thanked him for setting conditions for U.S. manufacturing investment, with Gates striking a more measured tone.
• AI featured prominently, with discussion of data centers and power connections for computing growth, and the First Lady referencing work with an AI-in-education task force.
• Trump signaled new tariffs on semiconductor imports that spare firms building in the U.S., even as his broader tariff strategy faces legal challenges, according to manager magazin; a hot mic later caught Zuckerberg apologizing for hesitating over an investment figure, per a CNN video cited by Merkur.