Trump hosts top tech executives, officials for White House AI lunch

US President Donald Trump hosted prominent technology executives Tuesday and unveiled America.gov, an artificial intelligence-powered federal platform designed to help Americans access government services.

Trump said he will sign an executive order that will officially rename artificial intelligence “superintelligence,” while emphasizing the US’ lead in the rapidly developing technology sector.

“We have a very big lead, and we’re going to keep our lead,” he said, describing AI as an industry that could be larger than the Industrial Revolution.

He also stressed the importance of “tremendous self-regulation” of the industry, noting that federal agencies, including the Justice Department and the FBI, already provide regulatory oversight.

He said technology companies would work with communities hosting data centers, including through support for education and teachers and potentially supplying oil and gas.

"The areas with data centers have become very rich. People have become very rich. Their taxes have gone down, not up, and a lot of good things have happened," he said.

The White House did not immediately release the list of participants at the lunch, but an RSVP list obtained by Axios showed 31 attendees, including Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and US House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Tech executives expected to attend include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Palantir CEO Alex Karp, according to the report.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman will also attend, while CEO Sam Altman is in San Francisco for the company's annual conference, said Axios.

Others expected are former White House AI czar David Sacks, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, White House science adviser Michael Kratsios and National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton.

The high-level discussions come amid an intensifying debate and demands for regulation of the fast-developing technology.

Trump has repeatedly dismissed calls for a slowdown, pushing instead for expedited data center construction and uninhibited technological expansion. "Whoever wins AI, wins," Trump has said, insisting that the US must preserve its technological lead against global competitors such as China.