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Trump Hosts White House AI Lunch With Top CEOs

By Drooid · Sep 29, 2026, 5:59 AM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

U.S. President Donald Trump will host a White House AI lunch on Sept 29.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and OpenAI President Greg Brockman will attend.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are expected.
Trump calls AI safety warnings a hoax and says U.S. must outpace China.
United States and China agreed to set up a channel for AI incident communication.

History

Historical Context

In December 2015 Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others pledged $1 billion to launch OpenAI, a nonprofit focused on safe artificial general intelligence. ChatGPT’s November 2022 release ignited a rapid AI boom and deep U.S. investment. That surge frames President Donald Trump’s 2024 White House AI lunch with Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang, urging coordinated policy.

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Story summary

U.S. President Donald Trump will host a White House AI lunch on Sept 29.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and OpenAI President Greg Brockman will attend.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are expected.
Trump calls AI safety warnings a hoax and says U.S. must outpace China.
United States and China agreed to set up a channel for AI incident communication.

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