{"slug": "tech-power-players-land-seat-at-table-for-high-stakes-dinner-with-trump-xi", "title": "Tech power players land seat at table for high-stakes dinner with Trump, Xi", "summary": "President Donald Trump is planning a state dinner next week for Chinese President Xi Jinping, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Apple Executive Chairman Tim Cook and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly expected to attend, according to FOX Business. The dinner comes amid U.S.-China tensions over AI development, advanced semiconductor export controls and frontier models; Huang said in May that China has \"all the chips they need\" despite U.S. restrictions. Xi hosted a state dinner for Trump in May that was also attended by Elon Musk, Huang and Cook, who was still Apple CEO at the time.", "body_md": "# Tech power players land seat at table for high-stakes dinner with Trump, Xi\n\n## Tech leaders' attendance comes amid US-China tensions over AI chips, export controls and frontier models\n\nPresident [Donald Trump](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/donald-trump) is planning to hold a state dinner next week to mark a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, and several tech industry leaders are expected to attend.\n\nOpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Apple Executive Chairman Tim Cook are both reportedly planning to attend the state dinner.\n\nNvidia CEO Jensen Huang is also expected to attend the event, a person familiar with the matter told FOX Business.\n\nThe tech leaders' anticipated attendance at the Trump-Xi state dinner comes at a time of geopolitical tensions, including over the development of [artificial intelligence (AI)](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/artificial-intelligence) and access to both models and the chips that power them.\n\n**NVIDIA CEO DRAWS LINE ON AI SAFETY AFTER ALARMING INCIDENTS: 'IF IT'S NOT READY, JUST HOLD IT BACK'**\n\nThe U.S. and [China](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/china) are locked in a competition in which the two world powers are racing to develop more capable AI tools, which have been a source of tension between the countries.\n\nChina's access to specialized chips that power advanced AI models has been restricted through the U.S. government's use of [export controls](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/fox-news-trade) on advanced semiconductors, like those made by Nvidia.\n\nHuang has been critical of those restrictions and said in May that China has \"all the chips they need\" despite the U.S. restrictions.\n\n**BESSENT SAYS US NEEDS MORE OPEN-SOURCE AI MODELS TO COMPETE WITH CHINA**\n\nAmerican companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have relied on using [frontier models](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/tech), which are proprietary and not available for use without purchasing a license, to gain their edge in the AI race. Chinese tech companies have used distillation as a means of using open-weight models to keep up with U.S. firms' frontier models.\n\n[Altman](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/business-leaders) and other tech leaders have recently been discussing steps to rein in AI development to ensure the safety and alignment of those models amid concerns about their potential impact on humanity.\n\n\"It is the responsibility of the AI companies ourselves to develop the technology safely and to properly test it,\" Huang told reporters. \"If it's not ready, just hold it back. You should go as fast as you can, but no faster than that.\"\n\nState dinners are among the highest diplomatic honors a U.S. president can bestow on a foreign leader.\n\n**NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG WARNS CHINA HAS 'ALL THE CHIPS THEY NEED' DESPITE US BANS**\n\n| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| [AAPL](https://www.foxbusiness.com/quote?stockTicker=AAPL) | APPLE INC. | 337.00 | +4.59 | +1.38% | \n| [NVDA](https://www.foxbusiness.com/quote?stockTicker=NVDA) | NVIDIA CORP. | 219.34 | +5.44 | +2.54% | \n\nNext week's state dinner comes after Xi hosted a state dinner for Trump when he visited China in May. That event was also attended by [Elon Musk](https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/elon-musk), Huang and Cook – who was still CEO at the time and has recently transitioned into an executive chairman role at Apple.\n\nThe Trump-Xi state dinner will be the second hosted by Trump during his second term, as the first was held during a visit by Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla.\n\nDuring his first term, he hosted state dinners for French President Emmanuel Macron in 2018 and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in 2019.\n\n**GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE**\n\n*Reuters contributed to this report.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tech-power-players-land-seat-at-table-for-high-stakes-dinner-with-trump-xi", "canonical_source": "https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/tech-power-players-land-seat-table-high-stakes-dinner-trump-xi", "published_at": "2026-09-17 20:18:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-17 20:52:47.509968+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-chips", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Donald Trump", "Xi Jinping", "Sam Altman", "OpenAI", "Tim Cook", "Apple", "Jensen Huang", "Nvidia"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tech-power-players-land-seat-at-table-for-high-stakes-dinner-with-trump-xi", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tech-power-players-land-seat-at-table-for-high-stakes-dinner-with-trump-xi.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tech-power-players-land-seat-at-table-for-high-stakes-dinner-with-trump-xi.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tech-power-players-land-seat-at-table-for-high-stakes-dinner-with-trump-xi.jsonld"}}