Ceremony reveals where power truly lies. In the Capitol Rotunda in Washington D.C. yesterday, as Donald Trump was sworn back into office, the pecking order of the new regime was very clear indeed.
Seated in front of the incoming Cabinet were the tech titans and (a courtesy granted to very few) their wives and partners. There they all were: Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman of Meta; Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon; Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, and Sergey Brin, its co-founder.
