As Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai gets ready for his Beltway moment on Tuesday, the state of Washington-Silicon Valley relations remains in a state of flux.
Take last week’s White House summit with big tech. Key tech executives met briefly with President Donald Trump last Thursday, including Pichai, Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella, Oracle (ORCL) co-CEO Safra Catz, and Qualcomm (QCOM) CEO Steven Mollenkopf. They discussed ways to “ensure American dominance” on next-generation technology such as artificial intelligence,…