President Donald Trump brought America's most powerful tech leaders to the State Dining Room on 4 September at the White House, pressing each for concrete US investment figures tied to AI infrastructure and advanced manufacturing; Apple's Tim Cook and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg each cited $600bn, Google's Sundar Pichai said $250bn, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella put annual outlay at up to $80bn. Elon Musk did not attend.
The event reflected a renewed alignment between the Trump administration and the tech sector as the US seeks to retain global AI leadership.
