Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s China pitch to Trump and the stakes for global AI
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, now under investigation over an alleged affair with an accused Chinese spy, is positioned as a pivotal figure in global AI competition, having publicly lobbied President Donald Trump to ease chip export bans to China. During Trump's UK state visit in September, Huang argued that AI advancement is not a zero-sum game, claiming both the US and China could win, and that American tech dominance was preferable to Chinese dependence on US systems. Huang asserted Trump viewed computing technology as not a national security concern, while his company's chips, manufactured in Taiwan, underpin frontier AI models worldwide, making his influence on world order potentially greater than that of Steve Jobs.