Trump administration cancels meeting of White House tech advisory panel
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An Energy Department spokesperson confirmed the scrapped Friday session of a council that includes Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg
The Trump administration called off a Friday meeting of its White House technology advisory panel.
An Energy Department spokesperson confirmed the cancellation, according to Reuters. The panel counts Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg among its members.
The scrapped session was scheduled for November 6, 2026. That puts it squarely in a week when Washington and Wall Street were both still processing the midterm elections.
The midterms delivered Democratic control of Congress. Tech stocks then took a sharp hit on November 5, a slide tied to those election outcomes. One day later, the administration’s marquee tech gathering was off the calendar.
Who was supposed to be in the room
The panel in question is the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, better known as PCAST.
Beyond Huang and Zuckerberg, the membership includes AMD CEO Lisa Su and Oracle’s Larry Ellison. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz also sits on the council.
Two people run the show. The co-chairs are David Sacks and Michael Kratsios, who serves as a White House tech adviser.
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The meeting had a specific job to do. It was meant to support the president’s newly formed Super Intelligence Task Force, a body focused on artificial intelligence policy.
The confirmation itself came from the Energy Department rather than a White House podium.
What this means for AI policy and tech investors
The immediate question is whether this is a postponement or a pause. A rescheduled meeting in the coming weeks would suggest a logistical hiccup. A long silence would suggest the Super Intelligence Task Force is losing momentum before it really got going.
With Democrats now holding Congress, any executive-branch AI agenda faces a legislature with its own priorities.
Several things are worth tracking from here. The first is whether the White House or the Energy Department announces a new date for the PCAST session. The second is any update on the Super Intelligence Task Force, including whether its mandate or leadership shifts after the midterms.
The third is how co-chairs Sacks and Kratsios frame the administration’s AI agenda heading into a new congressional session.
Finally, watch the stocks of the companies whose leaders sit on the panel. Nvidia, AMD, Oracle and Meta have become shorthand for the AI trade.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Diego Almada Lopez. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
