A White House lunch on artificial intelligence was reported as scheduled for September 29, 2026, with President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and six technology executives expected to attend. The planned gathering put the competing aims of AI innovation and oversight in focus.
The reported guest list
The six executives named as expected were:
- Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
- Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic
- Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI
- Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google
- Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir
- Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia
Six people familiar with the plans each confirmed one executive’s expected attendance.
Johnson framed the discussion around innovation and oversight
Before the scheduled lunch, Johnson described the planned conversation as a search for balance between continued AI innovation and oversight. He opposed a moratorium and what he called hyper-regulation, arguing that the United States could lose ground to China.
Pichai and Musk had different reported attendance status
Sundar Pichai appeared on the expected-attendee list in one account and was described as a possible attendee in another. The latter also identified Elon Musk as a possibility and did not name Alex Karp.
