US tech and finance giants to join Trump on second UK state visit

The brag of Nvidia, the chipmaker which has go the world's astir invaluable nationalist company, is among the firm chiefs lining up to travel President Donald Trump connected adjacent week's authorities sojourn to the UK.

Sky News has learnt that Jensen Huang, the Nvidia main enforcement who has presided implicit the stratospheric emergence successful its valuation to much than $4trn, is expected to be a authorities banquet astatine Windsor Castle hosted by King Charles III during the trip.

Sources said connected Monday that Sam Altman, the brag of OpenAI; Larry Fink, president and main enforcement of plus absorption behemoth BlackRock; and Stephen Schwarzman, the brag of backstage equity elephantine Blackstone, were besides expected to beryllium among the attendees.

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Tim Cook, the Apple main executive, has besides been invited and whitethorn be the authorities banquet, the sources added, portion Jamie Dimon, the JP Morgan chief, is understood to beryllium incapable to marque the travel to Britain due to the fact that of existing diary commitments.

The attendance of figures specified arsenic Mr Huang and, potentially, Mr Altman, volition substance expectations that a question of firm deals and investments successful the UK volition beryllium unveiled during President Trump's unprecedented 2nd authorities visit.

Closer collaboration betwixt the 2 countries' atomic powerfulness industries is expected to beryllium 1 of the main focal points of trade-related discussions during the three-day trip, arsenic good arsenic artificial quality and the broader exertion industry.

President Trump's sojourn will, however, travel amid tensions implicit his tariff regime, with continuing uncertainty astir the interaction connected British manufacturing sectors, including steel.

There are besides continuing tensions betwixt the UK authorities and large drugmakers implicit pricing, with the US medication pressuring pharmaceutical companies to slash the terms of medicine medicines successful the US.

An Nvidia spokesperson said, "We don't remark connected our executives' question schedules."

BlackRock, Blackstone, Apple and JP Morgan declined to comment, portion OpenAI did not respond to a petition for comment.