Microsoft Corp.’s Satya Nadella discussed AI and cybersecurity during a meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk, becoming the latest tech industry chieftain to make overtures to the new administration.

Tech leaders are shifting to Trump, but for some of them it comes after a rocky relationship during the president-elect’s previous administration. View on euronews

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead what he calls the Department of Government Efficiency — yes, the acronym is DOGE — to “pave the way” for his administration to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.”

CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith had lunch with President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance, and

Microsoft would like President-elect Donald Trump to make sure that U.S. artificial intelligence policy in the next four years will support its goals.

Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration fundraising has reached a record $170 million, with major donations from tech giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook, who built rapport with Trump during his first four years in office, is donating $1 million to his inauguration, Axios reported this past Friday.

Indeed Trump has already claimed an investment win, announcing earlier this month that UAE property firm Damac is to invest billions of dollars into developing data centers in the US. Damac says it intends to construct 2GW of data center capacity over the next four years.

Starting in 2017, when the Chinese social video app merged with its competitor Musical.ly, TikTok has grown from a niche teen app into a global trendsetter. While, of course, also emerging as a potential national security threat, according to U.S. officials.

The recent contributions from tech giants to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund have raised significant questions from U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennet.