Overview
- Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai and Bill Gates attended the event and thanked the president for a pro-business climate.
- Executives highlighted major spending plans for U.S. data centers and infrastructure tied to the next wave of innovation.
- Elon Musk did not attend after receiving an invitation, stating on X that he sent a representative.
- Trump has recently threatened trade sanctions against jurisdictions that regulate U.S. tech firms, with reporting pointing to the European Union as a key target.
- Bill Gates urged applying artificial intelligence to international development and cited Operation Warp Speed to illustrate rapid U.S. innovation capacity.