Trump and Xi Host Tech Leaders at AI-Focused Dinner

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President Donald Trump hosted a dinner with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, attended by top tech executives including Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai, as the two nations discussed AI safety and trade tensions. The dinner table included Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Musk, Su and her spouse, Huang and his spouse, Cook, China's First Lady Peng Liyuan, and Xi, while Vice President JD Vance sat separately. Musk and OpenAI's Greg Brockman are major Trump donors, and Musk has proposed US-China peer review of AI models. Nvidia has faced significant losses from US export restrictions on its H20 chips, missing $2.5 billion in shipments in April 2025. Google's Pichai spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, while Amazon's Jeff Bezos attended despite not operating in China's marketplace. Other corporate leaders from BlackRock, JP Morgan, and Lockheed Martin were also present.


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