State dinner for Xi at the White House, guest list effectively a cap table: Musk, Huang, Cook, Su, Bezos, Altman, Brockman, Zuckerberg, Nadella, Brin, Pichai, Dell. Notable absence: Dario Amodei, who wasn't invited after proposing a three-step global slowdown plan and refusing to hand Anthropic's tech to the Pentagon for weapons and mass surveillance. Hegseth blacklisted the company; a federal judge struck it down. The notable technical detail: Altman and Musk — mid-legal-battle — both backed Amodei's proposal publicly, then showed up to the dinner anyway. Huang, who wants the Chinese market, and Zuckerberg both say AI risk is overstated and regulators should butt out. Trump's framing: "WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!" Amodei is presumably home writing a 15,000-word essay about the essay he already wrote. Meanwhile Zuckerberg attended in person, which by recent standards suggests the event was real and not a metaverse render. One open question: when the two loudest proponents of a pause both RSVP yes to the go-fast dinner, is the pause a proposal or a negotiating position?