Jared Kushner, United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef Al Otaiba and former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett participated in an off-the-record discussion on Thursday morning at Allen & Company’s annual Sun Valley conference, Puck News reported.

The closed-door conversation, held before the conference’s invite-only audience of business, media and technology leaders, took place months after Israel assisted the UAE during the war with Iran, sending an Iron Dome battery and operators to the Gulf state, which faced more rocket, missile and drone attacks from Iran than another country in the region.

Later in the morning, Sens. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and John Fetterman (D-PA) appeared together for a wide-ranging discussion. 

Meta COO Dina Powell McCormick, who is married to the Pennsylvania senator, is also in attendance at Sun Valley this week alongside Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other senior Meta executives.

More than 300 of the world’s most powerful executives have trickled into Idaho for Allen & Co’s invite-only, closed-door Sun Valley conference, where media moguls, tech titans and financiers gather every year. 

Dina Powell McCormick, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Joshua Kushner, Karlie Kloss, Robert Kraft, Sam Altman, Alex Karp, Bari Weiss, Sheryl Sandberg, David Zaslav, Bob Iger, Michael Eisner, Barry Diller, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Evan Spiegel, Josh Silverman, Marne Levine, Brian Grazer, Reid Hoffman, Adam Silver, Mitch Rales, Andy Jassy and Bobby Kotick were among those seen in Sun Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Washington figures also in attendance included Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh — who is making his first appearance in Sun Valley since being tapped for his role — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA), former CIA Director David Petraeus and former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE). 

Also spotted were Lachlan Murdoch, Nellie Bowles, David Ignatius and Jonathan Haidt.

Karp arrived at the four-day retreat days after unveiling a major partnership between Palantir and Nvidia to deploy advanced AI models for U.S. government agencies, as artificial intelligence dominates discussions among this year’s tech executives.

Weiss is at Sun Valley for the first time since Paramount tapped her to run CBS News last October. 

Zaslav’s Warner Bros. Discovery recently completed a $111 billion sale to Paramount Skydance after clearing a Department of Justice antitrust review in June. After he arrived and settled in, Zaslav changed into a baseball cap bearing the “WB” logo.

Iger arrives at Sun Valley after stepping down for the second time from his post as Walt Disney Company CEO in March. He’s since taken on an advisory role at Thrive Capital, the venture firm founded by Josh Kushner. 

Diller, chairman and senior executive of People, Inc. and Expedia Group, rolled up to the conference on an electric-blue Trek bike. 

Film producer Grazer came fresh off Aspen Ideas Festival, where he insisted that his films remain deliberately apolitical, aiming for “universal themes” instead. 

Below, a visual rundown of notable attendees:

Jane Lauder, Kevin Warsh and Casey Wasserman

Dina Powell McCormick and Sen. Dave McCormick

Joshua Kushner, Karlie Kloss, Diane Von Furstenberg, Garrett Langley and Megan Langley

Alexandre Arnault and Alex Karp

Gayle King, Jonathan Haidt and Nellie Bowles

Sam Altman

Marne Levine, Phil Deutch and Sheryl Sandberg

David Petraeus

On the sidelines of the Sun Valley Conference this week, Jordanian King Abdullah II met with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The Royal Hashemite Court said the two “discussed the positive economic relationship between the United States and Jordan.”

The Jordan Times, an English-language newspaper in the Hashemite Kingdom, wrote that in his meetings, the king “noted the importance of Jordan’s economic and administrative modernisation process in enhancing the Kingdom’s competitiveness and ability to attract investments, highlighting opportunities for building and strengthening economic partnerships.”

His Majesty King Abdullah II, accompanied by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein, met with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on margins of Sun Valley economic forum in Idaho, US, where they discussed the positive economic relationship between the United States and Jordan pic.twitter.com/Gy28CI46Bk

— RHC (@RHCJO) July 9, 2025

The Jordanian king is a rare  foreign head of state who attends the annual confab hosted by Allen & Co. The gathering brings together thought leaders, tech and media titans and current and former government officials every summer in Sun Valley, Idaho. Last year, King Abdullah met with Jeff Bezos and other business leaders on the sidelines of the conference. Jordan’s Queen Rania and Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah were among the guests at the wedding of Bezos and Lauren Sánchez last month.

Other attendees at this year’s conference include Mark Zuckerberg, Andy Jassy, Sam Altman, Barry Diller, Alex Karp, Jared Kushner, Evan Spiegel, Ynon Kreiz, Charles Rivkin, David Zaslav, Brian Grazer, Bob Iger, David Ignatius, Bari Weiss, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mike Bloomberg, Govs. Wes Moore and Glenn Youngkin, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Casey Wasserman.