US EditionOpenAI's Altman, Apple's Cook Become Latest CEOs to Criticize ICE After Minneapolis Killing
- On Monday, Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the 'Melania' documentary screening hours after a U.S. Border Patrol officer shot Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti, with coverage showing Cook alongside Brett Ratner, film producer.
- Employees said Cook's closeness to the Trump administration clashes with Apple's progressive values, citing his 24-karat gold trophy presented to President Trump and contrasting it with past corporate responses to the George Floyd killing.
- Inside Apple Slack, employees posted worried discussions and unprecedented dismay, saying silence on ICE and CBP violence felt personal given immigrant staff at Apple and was counterproductive.
- The immediate fallout included Apple workers criticizing Cook and Apple leadership's silence as damaging morale and Apple's public reputation, with colleagues calling it an absence of leadership despite some defenses.
- Observers noted the unusual disconnect when tech executives stayed silent after celebrity events near violence, while longtime Apple employees said Cook’s past messages after national traumas now signal an internal cultural and political shift at Apple.
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As Big Tech CEOs speak up about violence in Minneapolis, 1 in 3 corporate leaders think ICE tensions are ‘not relevant to their business’
A new CNBC poll of CEOs and top executives found companies are more hesitant to comment on politics, and some fear backlash from the Trump administration.
THIS ISN’T WHO WE ARE
The images and stories from Minneapolis are clear and appalling of armed, masked agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Custom and Border Protection (CBP) making illegal arrests, pepper-spraying peaceful protestors, and killing two observers.
Tech Lords Show Their True Colors: OpenAI's Sam Altman and Apple's Tim Cook Criticize ICE Enforcement Actions
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Apple CEO Tim Cook have joined a growing number of corporate executives expressing concern over immigration enforcement activities. Altman stated in an internal email that ICE is "going too far" while Cook expressed that he is "heartbroken" by the death of Alex Pretti, the man who violently clashed with federal agents on multiple occasions leading to his death. The post Tech Lords Show Their True Colors: OpenAI’s Sam Al…
Bay Area tech CEOs stop short of publicly condemning fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by ICE: reports
(KRON) -- Two of the most powerful CEOs in the tech industry have reportedly expressed dismay over the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis -- although neither has done so publicly. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly criticized Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) for "going too far" following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Pretti on Saturday, Jan. 24. In an eternal message obtained by the New York Times and Business Ins…
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