Donald Trump appointed the primary members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology together with, amongst others, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison (father of Paramount CEO David Ellison), Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, enterprise capitalist Marc Andreessen and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Established by a January Executive Order, the Council “brings together the Nation’s foremost luminaries in science and technology to advise the President and provide recommendations on strengthening American leadership in science and technology,” the White House stated.
Other members unveiled as we speak embrace Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, and Safra Catz, govt vice chair of Oracle. Oklo CEO and nuclear engineer Jacob DeWitte; Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of cryptocurrency change Coinbase; physicist John Martinis; CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems Bob Mumgaard; and Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, spherical out the group.
Notably absent is Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Formerly a serious donor and shut advisor to Trump, Musk infamously fired many hundreds of presidency workers as head of Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency early within the president’s time period. Trump and the owner of X publicly feuded publicly after Musk left DOGE, though that they had tentatively appeared to reconcile.
David Ellison’s Paramount is looking to close an acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery along with his father’s backing, within the third quarter. Oracle can also be a part of a consortium that not too long ago acquired a majority stake in TikTok’s U.S. operation.
Earlier as we speak, a California jury delivered a guilty verdict against Meta and Google for creating addictive merchandise and platforms that hurt minors.
David Sacks, the enterprise capitalist who serves as Trump’s AI and crypto czar, and White House Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios, will chair the council. The White House stated it might identify extra members as much as a complete of 24.
The Council’s mandate, the WH stated, is “to focus on topics related to the opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies present to the American workforce, and ensuring all Americans thrive in the Golden Age of Innovation.”