The White House released its official guest list for the September 24 state dinner honoring Xi Jinping shortly before the event, spotlighting a tech-heavy roster of U.S. CEOs that underscored AI, semiconductors, and bilateral trade tensions as central to the summit. Attendees included Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Apple’s Tim Cook, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Tesla’s Elon Musk, AMD’s Lisa Su, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, alongside officials and Trump family members, while notable absences such as Anthropic highlighted selective industry representation. This composition signals trader focus on how model releases, chip export controls, and competitive positioning in large language models and hardware ecosystems shape diplomatic guest selections rather than purely political factors. No major last-minute changes or additional catalysts have emerged in the days since.