Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, who served as a special government employee and top Trump adviser for the first few months of the year before feuding with Trump, said via X, formerly Twitter, that he was invited to a high-profile tech and business leader event in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, but he could not attend. “I was invited, but unfortunately could not attend. A representative of mine will be there,” Musk said. Meta (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft (MSFT) founder Bill Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman were all expected to attend, according to an invite list. Attendees also included Google’s (GOOGL) Sundar Pichai, Oracle (ORCL) CEO Safra Catz, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and Micron (MU) CEO Sanjay Mehrotra.
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