{"id":854373,"date":"2026-09-20T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854373\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T13:48:13","slug":"nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-emerges-as-trumps-top-ally-in-ai-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854373\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emerges as Trump&#8217;s top ally in AI debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the keynote address at Salesforce&#8217;s Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center on Sept. 15, 2026 in San Francisco, California. <\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Fanjoy | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>With the debate about regulating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> raging in Washington this week, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> picked up the phone to call his top ally on the subject: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/NVDA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia<\/a> CEO Jensen Huang.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The robots are not going to be taking over the world,&#8221; Trump told Huang, who&#8217;d put the president on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/14\/trump-phones-nvidia-huang-all-in-calls-data-center-opposition-hoax.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speaker<\/a> while on stage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday. Trump repeated a point he&#8217;d made on social media: that mounting AI and data center concerns are a &#8220;hoax.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>While other tech leaders like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/META\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta<\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/mark-zuckerberg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/jeff-bezos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> have cozied up to Trump during his second term, experts told CNBC that Huang is exercising outsized influence in the White House. He&#8217;s slated to attend Trump&#8217;s high-profile state dinner for Chinese President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/xi-jinping\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xi Jinping<\/a> next week, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named due to confidentiality. <\/p>\n<p>Nvidia has been powering the AI boom since before the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, supplying the graphics processing units used by OpenAI, Anthropic and others to train their models and run large workloads. Revenue surged to $215 billion in the latest fiscal year, up from $17 billion in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Huang&#8217;s position as the leader of the world&#8217;s most valuable company and the chipmaker at the heart of the AI boom has earned him the president&#8217;s ear on the most important AI topics. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Trump just likes winners, and Jensen&#8217;s very good at speaking his language,&#8221; Samuel Hammond, director of AI policy at the think tank Foundation for American Innovation, said in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>An Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment, and White House representatives didn&#8217;t respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Whether joining Trump for a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VaughnHillyard\/status\/1908950471659700353?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">candlelit dinner <\/a>at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/nvidia-ceo-turns-tech-conference-into-celebration-of-trump-00626160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">closing a keynote<\/a> by thanking guests for &#8220;making America great again,&#8221; Huang has learned how to appeal to the president. Trump and Huang have appeared together at least six times in public since the start of the second term, including trips to Saudi Arabia and the U.K., and a recent trip to China via Air Force One. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789912092_294_108357734-1788357409114-1788357205343-JensenCassella.jpg\" alt=\"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to CNBC: 'We're at the beginning of an industrial revolution'\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Huang is pushing for U.S. AI to move faster while some of Nvidia&#8217;s most important customers \u2014 namely OpenAI and Anthropic \u2014 are ramping up pressure on governments to regulate the technology as fears spread about its potential dangers.<\/p>\n<p>An Anthropic researcher, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/09\/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-safety.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Coxon<\/a>, who previously worked at OpenAI, said he quit his job earlier this month because he feared top AI labs are &#8220;gambling with our lives.&#8221; Coxon&#8217;s resignation set off a firestorm on social media, prompting calls for increased oversight from more than 20 members of Congress.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Concerns were already swirling after OpenAI disclosed a significant security incident in July, when two of its models escaped containment, accessed the open internet, and breached the online AI repository <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/26\/open-ai-hugging-face-hack.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugging Face<\/a> to get a better score on a benchmark test.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cited that episode in a bombshell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/12\/anthropics-amodei-proposes-plan-to-slow-the-pace-of-advancing-ai-capabilities.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">essay<\/a> a week ago, urging AI developers to slow how quickly they improve their most advanced AI models. Amodei encouraged companies to cooperate directly with the U.S. government, and reiterated his desire for &#8220;well-considered regulation of AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amodei&#8217;s &#8220;pacing&#8221; proposal was endorsed by other industry leaders, including OpenAI CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/sam-altman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Altman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SPCX\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/GOOGL\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis, who agreed on the need for a slowdown and additional oversight. <\/p>\n<p><a id=\"headline0\"\/>&#8216;Did no harm&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Huang took a different position.<\/p>\n<p>In public appearances over the past week, the Nvidia CEO brushed off concerns about AI&#8217;s risks. He said that predictions of doom aren&#8217;t grounded in science, and that model developers are responsible for securing their products before releasing them.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to safety concerns, Huang said in Scotland on Thursday, is &#8220;good old-fashioned engineering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were incidents, and those incidents, thankfully, did no harm,&#8221; Huang said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Huang&#8217;s position is largely shared publicly by David Sacks, a venture capitalist who previously served as Trump&#8217;s AI and crypto czar. Sacks co-hosts the &#8220;All-In&#8221; Podcast, which produced Monday&#8217;s event that featured the Trump-Huang call. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only control or &#8216;guardrails&#8217; that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!,&#8221; Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on the same day as the summit.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump greets Vice President of China Han Zheng as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang look on at Beijing Capital International Airport on May 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Wong | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Before the recent uproar over safety, Nvidia focused its Washington outreach on export controls.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Nvidia was pushing to sell its AI chips to restricted countries, including China, drawing sharp criticism from U.S. lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Some members of Congress, including Sens. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elizabeth-warren-delivering-alpha\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Warren<\/a>, \u00a0D-Mass., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., have cautioned that selling Nvidia hardware to China could threaten U.S. national security and narrow America&#8217;s lead in AI. <\/p>\n<p>In December, Huang&#8217;s strategy paid off. Trump announced that Nvidia was granted permission to ship its H200 chip to Chinese customers, and that the U.S. would collect a 25% fee in exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The H200 announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/26\/congress-pushes-back-on-nvidia-white-house-with-chip-export-limits.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drew intense pushback<\/a> from both sides of the aisle. Huang declined an invitation from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elizabeth-warren\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warren<\/a> to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/04\/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-warren-senate-hearing-china-ai-chips.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> testify<\/a> before the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/04\/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-warren-senate-hearing-china-ai-chips.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Senate Banking Committee<\/a> in June. The following month, a top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/14\/nvidia-h200-ai-chips-china.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. trade official confirmed<\/a> that H200 sales to China were underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"headline1\"\/>Profit motive<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia and Huang argued that banning Nvidia exports to China would be against American interests, in part because such a move would spur the world&#8217;s second-largest economy and computing market to develop its own cutting-edge AI chips. The H200 is no longer Nvidia&#8217;s most powerful chip, as it has shipped two generations of its newer Blackwell processors in the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>But Nvidia&#8217;s fate wasn&#8217;t entirely up to U.S. lawmakers, as China&#8217;s regulators mostly blocked imports of the H200 chips. <\/p>\n<p>Nvidia&#8217;s clear profit motive leads some experts to say it takes the concerns expressed by model developers more seriously than those of the chipmaker, because the labs are the ones responsible for the actual AI technology. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nvidia is the most aggressive in terms of, let&#8217;s just make money,&#8221; said Andrew Yoon, a researcher at CivAI, a nonprofit warning about the dangers of AI. &#8220;At every turn, they are really trying to just make sure whatever happens is good for Nvidia&#8217;s bottom line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia&#8217;s ambitions in China will loom large during the state dinner on Thursday, when Trump, Huang and Xi will all be in the same room. The White House is also planning a meeting with major AI executives to coincide with the event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/09\/16\/politics\/ai-executives-trump-xi-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to CNN<\/a>.\u00a0Other industry executives, including Altman, are expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>But Huang&#8217;s presence carries extra weight. During a House hearing on Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked if Trump understands the threat AI presents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would just say the president is completely aligned with Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia,&#8221; Bessent said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2026\/09\/15\/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-safety-is-an-engineering-problem.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says safety is an engineering problem<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/108363388-3ED3-MM-A-BLOCK-SHORT-091526.jpg\" alt=\"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Safety is an engineering problem\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the keynote address at Salesforce&#8217;s Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[38080,1540,23,11623,1071,5681,28,122,320188,1072,12,11733,11,214219,1168,297747,12424,2195,165,3,3487,111,1538,7047,49024,28315,74,10058,21,19,22,20,25,24,2002,6132],"class_list":["post-854373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alphabet-class-a","tag-amazon-com-inc","tag-america","tag-apple-inc","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-direxion-daily-semiconductor-bear-3x-shares","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-elon-musk","tag-ishares-semiconductor-etf","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-jen-hsun-huang","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta-platforms-inc","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-nvidia-corp","tag-politics","tag-salesforce-inc","tag-sam-altman","tag-satya-nadella","tag-space-exploration-technologies-corp","tag-technology","tag-tesla-inc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}