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Donald Trump appointed nan first members to nan President’s Council of Advisors connected Science and Technology including, among others, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison (father of Paramount CEO David Ellison), Meta laminitis and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, task capitalist Marc Andreessen and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Established by a January Executive Order, nan Council “brings together nan Nation’s foremost luminaries successful subject and exertion to counsel nan President and supply recommendations connected strengthening American activity successful subject and technology,” nan White House said.
Other members unveiled coming see Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, and Safra Catz, executive vice chair of Oracle. Oklo CEO and atomic technologist Jacob DeWitte; Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of cryptocurrency speech Coinbase; physicist John Martinis; CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems Bob Mumgaard; and Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, information retired nan group.
Notably absent is Tesla and SpaceX laminitis Elon Musk. Formerly a awesome philanthropist and adjacent advisor to Trump, Musk infamously fired galore thousands of authorities labor arsenic caput of Trump’s caller Department of Government Efficiency early successful nan president’s term. Trump and nan proprietor of X publically feuded aft Musk near DOGE, though they had tentatively appeared to reconcile.
David Ellison’s Paramount is looking to adjacent an acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery pinch his father’s backing, successful nan 3rd quarter. Oracle is besides portion of a consortium that precocious acquired a mostly liking successful TikTok’s U.S. operation.
Earlier today, a California assemblage delivered a guilty verdict against Meta and Google for creating addictive products and platforms that harm minors.
David Sacks, nan task capitalist who serves arsenic Trump’s AI and crypto czar, and White House Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios, will chair nan council. The White House said it whitethorn sanction further members up to a full of 24.
The Council’s mandate, nan WH said, is “to attraction connected topics related to nan opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies coming to nan American workforce, and ensuring each Americans thrive successful nan Golden Age of Innovation.”
