President Donald Trump shakes fingers with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella throughout an American Technology Council roundtable on the White House in Washington on June 19, 2017.
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Microsoft mentioned Thursday that it is contributing $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund.
The software program maker is now extra intently aligned with its extremely valued friends within the expertise business. Google mentioned earlier Thursday that it is donating $1 million to the Trump fund, and Meta supplied the same amount in December. Amazon was reportedly trying to make an identical contribution.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned in December that he would contribute $1 million individually, and Axios reported final week that Apple CEO Tim Cook will do the identical.
Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO and the world’s richest individual, has been advising Trump as he prepares to return to the White House following the inauguration later this month.
Microsoft additionally contributed $500,000 to the primary inauguration fund for Trump’s first time period and gave the identical quantity to President Joe Biden‘s fund, a Microsoft spokesperson informed CNBC.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, has met with Trump on a number of events, together with over negotiations surrounding a possible acquisition of TikTookay within the U.S. in 2020. Nadella additionally joined a Trump roundtable of expertise executives from across the nation in 2017.
Microsoft is hoping that beneath Trump, the U.S. will push synthetic intelligence coverage in a good path.
“The United States wants a sensible worldwide technique to quickly assist American AI around the globe,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s vice chair and president, wrote in a blog post final week.
