President Trump’s newly formed technology advisory council is dominated by executives from established technology companies rather than leaders of the AI companies driving the current wave of innovation, Bloomberg reported on March 30, 2026. The advisory group’s composition favors “old-line tech names” over the AI-native companies that are reshaping the industry.
The absence of top AI company leaders from the council is notable given the administration’s stated priority of maintaining American AI leadership. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind — the three companies most directly responsible for frontier AI development — are not represented at the executive level, according to Bloomberg’s reporting.
The council’s composition may reflect the administration’s preference for companies with established government contracting relationships and lobbying infrastructure. Legacy technology companies have deeper Washington connections and more experience navigating federal procurement processes than AI-native startups.
For AI policy, the council’s makeup could affect the direction of federal AI regulation and procurement decisions. A technology advisory group dominated by companies whose AI capabilities are secondary to their core businesses may prioritize different policy outcomes than one led by AI-first companies whose entire business models depend on the regulatory environment.
