US tech titans attend Trump-Xi dinner. Who wasn’t invited?

The White House guest list featured leaders of America’s biggest AI and technology companies as Washington and Beijing grapple with an intensifying tech rivalry Virtually all of America’s most powerful technology executives joined US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a lavish White House state dinner on Thursday, as artificial intelligence emerged as a major theme of the Chinese leader’s visit.The black-tie dinner in the White House East Room brought together more than 130 guests, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.Apple chairman Tim Cook, AMD chief Lisa Su, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and Dell Technologies chief Michael Dell were also among those invited. Major finance and industrial executives, including JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, attended as well.One notable Silicon Valley name was missing, however. Anthropic – the developer of the Claude A...