President Donald Trump is awarding medals to a number of leading tech executives, including Elon Musk and Michael Dell, at a science summit on Thursday, CNBC has confirmed.
Musk, who leads SpaceX and Tesla, is receiving the National Medal of Science, as are Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su, according to the White House. Dell and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will be given the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
The event is titled Science: A New Golden Age Summit. Fox News was first to report on it.
"The Trump Administration is grateful for the contributions of these incredible leaders in science and technology," Liz Huston, White House assistant press secretary said, in an emailed statement. "These recipients are helping ensure America keeps leading the world in innovation."
The summit comes a little over a week after Trump hosted a lunch at the White House focused on artificial intelligence that included several of those executives and many others in the industry. Trump told reporters after the gathering that he signed a "morally binding" document with the tech leaders, as calls for a slowdown in the development of AI models reached a fever pitch.