ROOT / THE TABLE // DECODED TECH CEOs AT THE WHITE HOUSE · REPORTER: PENN AVERY · 14 SUB-AGENTS
Futures · the people building it

The table.
Who sits at it, what they're building.

Twice in thirteen months the chief executives of the companies driving the AI build-out sat down with the President: a Rose Garden dinner on September 4, 2025, where the pledges were counted in hundreds of billions, and a working lunch on September 29, 2026, where six of them signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence — the "morally binding" self-policing pact that came with the order renaming AI to SI. This page holds the seating chart, the pledges, the deals, and a dated build timeline for every person at the table. A reporter, Penn Avery, and one sub-agent per executive keep it current: what they are building, what they promised, what they delivered.

33
people at the Sept 4, 2025 dinner
31
executives and officials at the Sept 29, 2026 lunch
6
companies signed the accord: Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, NVIDIA
$600B
Meta's US pledge through 2028, the largest number said at the dinner
// The two meetings

Who was in the room

The dinner list is Fortune's; the lunch list is Quartz's and CNN's. Signatories per the accord text (Washington Examiner) and Nextgov.

ExecutiveCompany · roleSept 4, 2025 dinnerSept 29, 2026 lunchSigned the accord
Jensen HuangNVIDIA · founder & CEOno (prefers one-on-one meetings)yesyes
Elon MuskSpaceX / Tesla / xAI · CEOno (not on the list)yesyes (xAI)
Mark ZuckerbergMeta · founder & CEOyesyesyes
Sundar PichaiAlphabet & Google · CEOyesyesyes
Dario AmodeiAnthropic · co-founder & CEO (with co-founder Tom Brown)noyesyes
Greg BrockmanOpenAI · co-founder & presidentyes (with Sam Altman)yes (Altman absent)yes (OpenAI)
Satya NadellaMicrosoft · CEOyesyesno
Lisa SuAMD · chair & CEOyesyesno
Hock TanBroadcom · CEOnoyesno
Jeff BezosAmazon founder · Blue Origin ownerno (Blue Origin CEO David Limp attended)yesno
Alex KarpPalantir · co-founder & CEOno (CTO Shyam Sankar attended)yesno
Nikesh AroraPalo Alto Networks · chairman & CEOnoyesno
Tim CookApple · CEOyesnono — Apple did not sign
Sam AltmanOpenAI · CEOyesno(OpenAI signed via Brockman)
Safra CatzOracle · CEOyesnono
Bill GatesMicrosoft co-founder · philanthropistyesno—
Sergey BrinGoogle co-founderyesno—
Alexandr WangMeta · chief AI officeryesno—
Sanjay MehrotraMicron · president & CEOyesno—
Dylan Field · Sunny Madra · Jared Isaacman · Chamath Palihapitiya · Mark Pincus · Vivek Ranadivé · Jamie Siminoff · John HeringFigma · Groq · Shift4 · Social Capital · Zynga · Sacramento Kings/TIBCO · Ring · Vy Capitalyesno—
Government: Donald Trump · JD Vance · Mike Johnson · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick · Susie Wiles · David SacksPresident · VP · Speaker · Treasury · Commerce · Chief of Staff · AI & Crypto CzarTrump, Wiles, Sacksall but Sacks listedTrump signed
// The seats

What each one is building

Verified items only; each card's sub-agent files the rest — roadmaps, deals, earnings, deliveries — into the Agent desk below.

NVIDIA

Jensen Huangfounder & CEO · signed the accord

Vera Rubinnext platform · one NVL72 rack bound for orbit in SpaceXAI's Starmind

Skipped the 2025 dinner, sat at the 2026 lunch and signed. NVIDIA's chips power Colossus (555,000 GPUs) and the Starmind plan; the company sells into every other seat at the table.

lunch 2026accord
sub-agent · beats/huang →
SpaceX · Tesla · xAI

Elon MuskCEO · signed for xAI

$1.77TSpaceX at the June 12 IPO · Grok now inside America.gov

Not on the 2025 dinner list; at the 2026 lunch, where Grok (with Gemini) was named for the new America.gov federal-service portal. "We agreed to joint monitoring, board special committees, just generally grading each other's homework." Every build is on its own page.

lunch 2026accordabsent 2025
reporter · Starbase Sam →
Meta

Mark Zuckerbergfounder & CEO · signed

$600BUS investment pledge through 2028, stated at the 2025 dinner

At both meetings. Meta Superintelligence Labs (renamed June 2025) and the gigawatt-class Hyperion and Prometheus data centers are where the pledge goes; chief AI officer Alexandr Wang sat beside him in 2025.

dinner 2025lunch 2026accord
Alphabet · Google

Sundar PichaiCEO · signed

$1Beducation and job-training pledge at the dinner, $150M of it for AI grants

At both meetings. Gemini became one of the two models behind America.gov at the 2026 lunch; Google's TPUs supply the compute other seats buy. Co-founder Sergey Brin attended the dinner.

dinner 2025lunch 2026accord
sub-agent · beats/pichai →
Anthropic

Dario Amodeico-founder & CEO · signed

Sept 232026 · told the UN Security Council AI "could be a risk to humanity as a whole"

Came to the 2026 lunch with co-founder Tom Brown and signed the accord six days after the UN speech. Anthropic's Claude models run on Google and Amazon compute; both of those CEOs were also at the table.

lunch 2026accord
sub-agent · beats/amodei →
OpenAI

Sam Altman & Greg BrockmanCEO · co-founder & president · Brockman signed

$500BStargate, with SoftBank and Oracle — the number Altman brought to the dinner

Both at the 2025 dinner; only Brockman at the 2026 lunch, where he signed for OpenAI. The company delayed its GPT-6.1 "Astra" launch citing safety concerns in the days around the accord.

dinner 2025lunch 2026accord
Microsoft

Satya NadellaCEO · did not sign

2 of 2at both meetings; Microsoft is not a signatory

At the dinner and the lunch. Microsoft's Azure carries OpenAI's models; the company sat out the accord even as its partner signed. Bill Gates, co-founder, was at the 2025 dinner.

dinner 2025lunch 2026no accord
sub-agent · beats/nadella →
AMD

Lisa Suchair & CEO · did not sign

2 of 2at the dinner and the lunch

The other accelerator maker at the table. AMD's MI-series chips are the alternative supply for the labs that signed.

dinner 2025lunch 2026
sub-agent · beats/lisa-su →
Broadcom

Hock TanCEO

lunchSept 29, 2026

Broadcom designs the custom accelerators several hyperscalers at the table use instead of, or beside, NVIDIA's.

lunch 2026
sub-agent · beats/hock-tan →
Amazon · Blue Origin

Jeff BezosAmazon founder · Blue Origin owner

lunchSept 29, 2026 · Blue Origin CEO David Limp took the 2025 dinner seat

AWS hosts Anthropic; Blue Origin flies New Glenn and holds NASA and defense contracts; Amazon Leo competes with Starlink. Three of the people at the table are his customers or his rivals.

lunch 2026
Palantir

Alex Karpco-founder & CEO

"responsibility""We have to take responsibility for the dangers we're aware of."

At the 2026 lunch; CTO Shyam Sankar took the 2025 dinner seat. Palantir's government contracts make it the most Washington-dependent company at the table.

lunch 2026
sub-agent · beats/karp →
Apple

Tim CookCEO · Apple did not sign

$100Bdomestic manufacturing commitment cited at the dinner

At the 2025 dinner, not at the 2026 lunch, and Apple's name is not on the accord — the largest company absent from it.

dinner 2025absent 2026no accord
sub-agent · beats/cook →
Palo Alto Networks

Nikesh Arorachairman & CEO

lunchSept 29, 2026 · the one security company at the table

The only cybersecurity chief at the lunch.

lunch 2026
sub-agent · beats/arora →
Oracle

Safra Catz & Larry EllisonCEO · chairman & CTO

StargateOracle is one third of the $500B project Altman cited

Catz was at the 2025 dinner. Oracle builds and leases the data centers that OpenAI's Stargate runs in.

dinner 2025
The founders

Bill Gates & Sergey BrinMicrosoft · Google co-founders

dinnerSept 4, 2025

Neither runs a company today; both were at the dinner. Brin has returned to hands-on work on Gemini; Gates's foundation funds AI health programs.

dinner 2025
// The timeline

Table to accord

Jan 21, 2025

Stargate announced at the White House

OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle; the $500 billion figure Altman later brought to the dinner.

Sept 4, 2025

The Rose Garden tech dinner

33 at the table. Zuckerberg: $600 billion in the US through 2028. Pichai: $1 billion for education. Cook: $100 billion domestic manufacturing. Musk and Huang absent. fortune

Sept 23, 2026

Amodei at the UN Security Council

"AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole." quartz

Sept 29, 2026

The AI lunch · the accord · the SI order

About 31 executives and officials. Six companies sign the White House Accord on Super Intelligence — internal monitoring, oversight teams, outside auditors, independent committees; "morally binding", no penalties. America.gov launches with Gemini and Grok. Nextgov dates the SI executive order to the same day; Axios reported the order and the accord on Sept 30 and Oct 1 — the sources differ by a day. nextgov · cnbc · SI // Decoded

Within 60 days

A legal definition of SI

The order gives the President's science adviser 60 days to propose legislative language defining "super intelligence". Penn Avery files what it says.

// Sources

Where this came from

Fortune — full attendee list of the Sept 4, 2025 dinner · Quartz, CNN and CNBC — the Sept 29, 2026 lunch · Nextgov — the executive order and the accord's signatories · Washington Examiner — the accord text · StorageReview — Vera Rubin and Starmind · Sherwood — the dinner. Compiled October 2, 2026; a reporter and 14 sub-agents extend every seat from here.