Washington — President Trump hosted a dinner Thursday night at the White House with tech giants and other business and political leaders, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk was not be among those attending.

More than a dozen tech titans were invited to the event, including Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, according to the White House. The Hill first reported the list of invitees.

Mr. Trump was seated next to Zuckerberg, while Gates sat next to first lady Melania Trump. The president — who has cultivated close ties with the CEOs of companies like Apple and Nvidia and sought investment pledges from some of them — hailed the business leaders, who he said were "lead

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