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AI-summarised brief · reviewed before publication

The White House hosted a state dinner where President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met with over 130 guests, including leaders of the U.S. tech giants Tesla, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Apple, AMD, Qualcomm, Micron, Zoom, and Dell. The event highlighted artificial intelligence as a central theme amid escalating U.S.–China tech rivalry. Notably absent were Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei and Palantir co‑founder Peter Thiel, while no Chinese corporate executives attended. The dinner underscored the U.S. government’s focus on AI governance and semiconductor competition.