Tech CEOs spar over Trump’s Stargate AI project

L-R: Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce, and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX.
Some of the biggest names in technology — from Elon Musk and Sam Altman to Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff — are clashing after President Donald Trump unveiled his $500 billion private AI investment project.
Musk has yet to stop his war of words, with the Tesla CEO taking to X to rip Altman over OpenAI’s partnership with Axios and his previous support for venture capitalist Reid Hoffman’s past efforts to oppose Trump.
Altman, who joined Trump on stage to announce the artificial intelligence push, posted Thursday morning without tagging Musk directly: