Brendan Bordelon

Brendan Bordelon is an American technology policy reporter at Politico. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate of the University of California, Riverside, he worked at The Daily Caller, for two years as a political reporter at National Review, and at Morning Consult, covering technology and cybersecurity policy, before National Journal hired him as technology correspondent from March 27, 2017.¹ He also holds a master's degree from George Washington University.²

Politico

Bordelon joined Politico on January 25, 2022 to write the Morning Tech newsletter.² In January 2023 the global technology editor, Steve Heuser, named him "Tech Influence reporter," covering the industry's influence on politics and policy.³ In September 2026 he was one of four authors, with Calder McHugh, Christine Mui and Sam Sutton, of the newsletter of Politico's new technology policy unit, Decoded.⁴

Reporting on Open Philanthropy

On October 13, 2023 Bordelon reported on the policy fellows funded by Open Philanthropy, writing that the Horizon Institute for Public Service was "a nonprofit that Open Philanthropy effectively created in 2022," that Horizon fellows worked in the offices of Senators Martin Heinrich, Mike Rounds and Todd Young, and that the Center for Security and Emerging Technology was "funded almost entirely by Open Philanthropy." He described Jason Matheny of the RAND Corporation as "a luminary in the effective altruist community."⁵ On December 15, 2023 he reported on RAND's part in Joe Biden's executive order on AI.⁶ Semafor reported in December 2025 that Open Philanthropy had been "bothered by media coverage of it, in particular a series of critical stories from Politico."⁷