Details: Khanna, whose district includes part of the area south of San Francisco, will travel to Iowa this week to help roll out the initiative, which is an attempt to create a pipeline between talent in Jefferson, Iowa, and an Accenture-owned software company called Pillar Technology (with offices in Michigan, Ohio, and Iowa as well as Palo Alto, Calif.).

• Khanna said in an interview this week that he connected an executive at Pillar with people in tech, including Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott — who is donating some of his personal fortune to fund scholarships for students in Jefferson.
• “In my view, if this works, if this can be seen as a Silicon Valley-rural partnership that creates jobs, economic opportunity, it is a win-win [and can be replicated] …you could really start to bring back a lot of the jobs that were outsourced and you can start to empower communities across America,” he said.
• The event will involve representatives from Google as well as smaller firms, according to Khanna’s office.
• The effort also includes public funding, according to the Des Moines Register.

Khanna has spent some of his first term visiting parts of the country that the tech-driven economic boom has left behind, including parts of West Virginia and Paintsville, Kentucky.

Yes, but: Most members of Congress focus on creating jobs in their own districts, not many states over. Khanna defends his work, saying his constituents will welcome it.

• He said people in his district worry about how rapid growth in the Bay Area had increased home prices and ramped up traffic, and voters supported local candidates who share those concerns in the recent midterms.
• “They would say our country is broken, we missed something big, the elites of this country missed something big,” Khanna said. “We need to bring people into the digital economy.”

The big picture: Last year, a meeting between Trump and tech CEOs, including Apple’s Tim Cook and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, featured some volatile moments. But ahead of this week’s meeting, the administration’s policy apparatus has already handed the industry wins on some key issues — even if the president still fires off critical tweets about high-profile internet companies.

Details: Chief executives at Thursday’s meeting are expected to include Google’s Sundar Pichai, Oracle’s Safra Catz, IBM’s Ginni Rometty, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Qualcomm’s Steve Mollenkopf.

• They’ll discuss emerging technologies like artificial intelligencer, 5G wireless networks, quantum computing and advanced manufacturing, according to a source familiar with the plans.
• A White House spokesperson said in a statement that the attendees would "discuss efforts to advance American leadership in innovation, and the future of American industries, jobs, and our economy."
• The White House declined to say whether Trump would attend.

What they're saying: "I think it's good news that the White House is focused on how government and business can work together to advance leadership in technology like AI and quantum, 5G and robotics," said Chris Padilla, IBM's vice president for government and regulatory affairs.

Much has shifted since last year’s meeting, where Tim Cook told Trump to put “more heart” into the immigration debate and some CEOs looked so pained to be with Trump that articles were written about it:

• Tech has notched some wins. The industry has benefited from the new tax law and seen victories from the White House on wonkier priorities, like government IT modernization and protecting websites that host content online from liability in the proposed new North American trade agreement.
• The White House now has a roster of tech allies. Many of the attendees at Thursday’s meeting have made a point of working with the White House and doing business with the government. Oracle and IBM regularly seek government contracts. Microsoft just signed a big deal with the Defense Department. And Qualcomm had a big win when Trump squashed Broadcomm’s attempt to take over the chip maker.
• Administration officials are more wary of tech regulation. Former internet industry lawyer Gail Slater used her position at the White House to launch a process to counteract strict privacy rules coming out of California and Europe — a potential win for industry. A senior official’s proposal earlier this year to nationalize a 5G network has given way to meetings featuring pro-industry rhetoric about expanding wireless networks.

Yes, but: The president himself is still taking public shots at tech companies, and he's unpredictable enough that many companies were hesitant to make any predictions about the meeting.

• Trump said last month that the administration is looking at monopoly concerns around Amazon, Facebook and Google.
• He’s tweeted this year about unproven allegations of anti-conservative bias on Google.
• Facebook said it was not attending the meeting. An Amazon spokesperson did not reply to a question about the gathering.

The largest tech companies also face a broadly hostile climate on Capitol Hill, with lawmakers concerns about issues ranging from privacy to competition to the potential that Google could re-enter the Chinese search market.

Our thought bubble: It always takes a while for businesses to figure out how to work with a new administration. But this relationship has proven especially tricky thanks to the divide between the White House and many people in tech on issues like climate change and immigration.

The bottom line: "It's a net neutral," said one tech industry official of the sector's relationship with the White House. "It's not overwhelmingly positive, but it's not overwhelmingly negative, either."

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that Gail Slater was not a registered lobbyist for the internet industry; she was a top lawyer for an industry group.

The documents released by a British lawmaker show Facebook insiders discussing major issues:

• Special access for certain companies. Employees worked with companies like Lyft, Netflix and Airbnb to extend access to some data after Facebook had generally cut off access to it for developers at large. The existence of similar agreements has been public for months, but Wednesday's document dump reveals new players who got special access and offers more insight into Facebook's decision-making.
• Limited worry about user data leaking, even as Facebook moved towards locking access to that data down. "I think we leak info to developers, but I just can’t think of any instances where that data has leaked from developer to developer and caused real issue for us," chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in 2012, describing almost exactly the kind of behavior that would lead to the Cambridge Analytica scandal years later.
• Moving to box out competitors. In 2013, Zuckerberg authorized a decision to shut down access to certain data for Vine, Twitter's now-dead short form video service, according to one document.

The backstory: Facebook's refusal to send Zuckerberg to testify in front of British lawmaker Damian Collins' committee has frustrated members of Parliament, culminating in Wednesday's release of the documents with limited redactions.

The other side: Facebook has said the documents, which are part of ongoing litigation against the firm, may paint a selective picture of the company's actions.

• Zuckerberg pushed back Wednesday on aspects of the way the contents of the documents were being portrayed.

Go deeper: Read the documents

This story has been updated with more details from the documents.