Trump administration cancels meeting of White House tech advisory panel

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 Krats...