An of the event was initially released by the White House, along with one photograph, showing Obama talking to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

However, other photographs were later released of the group at dinner, two of which have appeared in the . Apple's Jobs sat to the President's left, though his face is not visible in any of the photographs.

Jobs did appear thin, though the pictures didn't reveal enough to shed any further light on claims made by the National Enquirer that he was "weeks from death".

Speculation about the state of Jobs' health has been in full swing in the tabloid press since he took a from Apple in January. The Daily Mail itself, hours before the new pictures emerged, ran a story titled: ''.