Where things stand between tech executives and Trump

Where things stand between tech executives and Trump

It’s been nearly a year-and-a-half since leaders from the country’s largest technology firms worked to win President Trump’s favor as he returned to the White House. What’s the status of their relationship with Trump today?

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From meetings at Mar-a-Lago to hefty inauguration donations, their efforts were on full display from day one, with CEOs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos sitting in the front rows of Trump’s indoor inauguration as some Republican state leaders watched from overflow rooms.  The technology industry has since faced several ups and downs under the second Trump administration, testing their relationships with a president known for his unpredictability. Amid personal feuds and debates over artificial intelligence policy, some of the newer relationships have held, while others faced turbulence.

The president’s relationship with Musk, the CEO and founder of SpaceX and Tesla, proved the most volatile in the past 16 months, marked by a swift alliance and eventual blowout. 

While the two figures’ relationship publicly devolved last June, tensions have simmered since, with Musk joining Trump on his state visit to China earlier this month. 

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is another AI executive with a complicated relationship with Trump and his White House.

It did not come as a surprise when Amodei clashed with the Trump administration earlier this year, given both his personal politics and the company’s safety-first approach to AI. 

Check out a full recap of Musk, Amodei and other tech execs’ relationships with Trump this weekend at TheHill.com

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