How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump

How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump

At President Trump’s inauguration, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, was relegated to the overflow room while other tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg took prime spots on the dais under the Capitol rotunda. But days earlier, before flying into Washington, Mr. Altman was on the phone …

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Microsoft and Nvidia Take a Quieter Approach to Trump

Microsoft and Nvidia Take a Quieter Approach to Trump

Friday afternoon last week, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia, slipped into the White House to meet President Trump for the first time. There was no fanfare, and he left without a single public photo taken of the two. Two weeks earlier, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, …

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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump

Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump

Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men’s bathrooms at Meta’s offices. Days earlier, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, had made a series of changes at his company, aligning with President Trump’s new administration. As part of the moves, Mr. Zuckerberg eliminated diversity initiatives …

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How to Invest During a Presidency With a Deep Devotion to Profits

How to Invest During a Presidency With a Deep Devotion to Profits

“The chief business of the American people is business.” That declaration by Calvin Coolidge has been shortened and simplified since that Republican president uttered it before an assembly of newspaper editors a century ago. But the notion that the business of America is business was on conspicuous display at President …

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Latin American Leaders Welcome and Warn Trump

Latin American Leaders Welcome and Warn Trump

In the weeks before he took office, Donald J. Trump repeatedly vowed to carry out the largest deportations in U.S. history and to militarize the border, all while his transition team rebuffed requests from regional leaders to meet over the effects of his promised moves. He made countries such as …

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Trump, the Deal Maker in Chief, Is Back

Trump, the Deal Maker in Chief, Is Back

The questions facing a new Trump era Good morning on this Inauguration Day. Welcome to Round 2 of President Donald Trump. No matter your politics, it is likely to be a historic ride. For business and policy leaders, the next administration is expected to be filled with deals of all …

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