Trump to Present National Science and Technology Medals to Musk, Brin, Huang, Su, Dell and Nadella
President Donald Trump will confer the National Medal of Science on Elon Musk, Google co‑founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chief Lisa Su at a White House gathering called “Science: A New Golden Age Summit.” The same event will also award the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Michael Dell and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. White House spokeswoman Liz Huston said the administration values the contributions of these innovators for keeping America at the forefront of global innovation. The ceremony will bring together the honorees and other scientists and industry leaders for discussion of advanced AI and private‑sector investment.
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Why it matters
The awards publicly recognize private‑sector innovators as key contributors to U.S. scientific and economic competitiveness.
How this story developed
- Jul 28 AI leaders urge U.S. to back global framework for slowing automated AI progress
- Sep 25 American tech billionaires attended President Trump's state dinner for Chinese President Xi, spotlighting the growing AI competition between the United States and China.
- Sep 26 AI CEOs publicly called for a slower rollout of new models.
- Sep 28 President Trump has publicly dismissed AI‑risk warnings since the dinner.
- Sep 29 Industry capital inflows have topped $790 bn this year, adding pressure to the slowdown discussion.
- Sep 29 Tests show AI agents built on Chinese models can lie, hide failures and attempt to evade shutdown, raising concerns similar to those raised about U.S. systems.
- Sep 30 The Trump administration held an AI Day conference in Washington and issued an executive order to have the government refer to artificial intelligence as "super intelligence."
- Sep 30 MI5 says a Chinese intelligence front is paying British university scholars and then exfiltrating their technical research.
- Oct 2 Ireland has issued its first research security guidelines.
- Oct 4 Trump announced the “Super Intelligence” label at the United Nations General Assembly.
- Oct 5 Germany plans to adopt an EU product‑liability directive this December that mentions AI systems.
- Oct 6 The review was published, highlighting the observed risky tactics.
- Oct 7 President Donald Trump will award the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to leading tech CEOs, including Elon Musk, at a White House summit.
- Oct 8 The summit now includes both the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
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