Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expects to spend as much as $65 billion on AI in 2025 as part of a “massive effort” to further the company’s AI ambitions. Part of the plan includes a Louisiana data center that Zuckerberg says “is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,

Stephanie Ruhle reacts to tech billionaires Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos sitting right behind President Trump during the inauguration, closer to him than his cabinet.

Among the guests at Donald Trump's second inauguration in Washington, D.C. today were three billionaire tech CEOs: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. They were also joined by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Trump's former chief strategist told ABC Sunday he believes the billionaires' inauguration attendance is an "official surrender" to the next administration.

Telsa, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk arrives for the Inauguration of Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC (Picture: Getty Images)

Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, will be sworn in Monday as the 47th U.S. president.

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday, according to an official involved with planning the event. They will have a prominent spot at the ceremony,

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are expected to attend Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, two sources told CBS News. According to Forbes, they are the three richest people in the world, worth an estimated $850 billion combined. CNBC was first to report their plans to attend the president-elect's inauguration.

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer. Ms. McLean is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and an author of “The Smartest Guys in the Room,” a book about the collapse of Enron. Mr. Silver is the author of “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.”

On The Intercept Briefing podcast with Tech Policy Press’s Justin Hendrix: how a new inaugural era of class unity in tech and politics is taking shape.

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