From Musk to Zuckerberg, Elkann also in the US team in Riyadh

From First Buddy Elon Musk to Meta's number one Mark Zuckerberg, passing through the CEOs of Amazon, Nvidia, OpenAI and Boeing. In Riyadh, together with Donald Trump, the CEOs of Corporate America are parading, including the president of Stellantis John Elkann. For them, the appointment is an opportunity to make deals with the rich Saudis but also to lobby the American president's entourage on duties. Despite the clearing up with China, uncertainty about tariffs remains and for the number ones of the big American companies, having the opportunity to interact directly with Trump's team - from the 'chief negotiator' Scott Bessent to the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick - away from the spotlight of Washington is unmissable. In Riyadh, many of the CEOs have lunch with the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, meet the big Saudis to do business and participate in the Saudi-US Investment Forum, renamed for the occasion the 'Witch of the Desert'. Their presence is praised by Trump who, during his visit, aims to cash in 1,000 billion dollars of Saudi investments. The tycoon praised them from the forum stage and took a swipe at the absent CEO of Apple, Tim Cook. "He's not here, but Nvidia is here," he said, praising the number one of the semiconductor giant Jensen Huang. Nvidia has signed an important partnership with Humain, the startup for artificial intelligence of the Saudi sovereign fund. Under the agreement, Nvidia will send it 18,000 of its latest-generation chips to use in its data centers in Saudi Arabia. Humain is also the protagonist, together with Amazon Web Service, of an investment of over five billion dollars in AI in Saudi Arabia. Riyadh was the occasion for Musk to announce Saudi approval of the use of its Starlink for air and sea transport. Taking off his role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, First Buddy assured from the stage of the Forum that he will play a central role in the Saudi technological turnaround and talked about all his companies, from the Boring Company that builds tunnels and infrastructure to Tesla robots. "I showed them to Mohammed Bin Salman and Trump. There was one that even did the 'Trump dance'," Trump's dance, he said smiling. His enemy Sam Altman of OpenAI was also present in Saudi Arabia, one of the world's largest investors in artificial intelligence and, therefore, crucial to the CEO's ambitions to grow his company.