{"id":423867,"date":"2025-12-04T10:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/423867\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:13:16","slug":"nvidia-ceo-huang-visits-republicans-amid-debate-over-ai-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/423867\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Huang visits Republicans amid debate over AI race"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang<\/a> met separately with President Donald Trump and Republican senators Wednesday as tech executives work to secure favorable federal policies for the artificial intelligence industry, including the limited sale of Nvidia\u2019s highly valued computer chips to U.S. rivals like China.<\/p>\n

Huang\u2019s closed-door meeting with Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee came at a moment of intensifying lobbying, soaring investments and audacious forecasts by major tech companies about AI\u2019s potential transformative effects.<\/a><\/p>\n

Huang is among the Silicon Valley executives who warn that any restrictions on the technology will halt its advancement despite mounting concerns among policymakers and the public about AI\u2019s potential pitfalls or the ways foreign rivals like China may use American hardware.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve said repeatedly that we support export control, that we should ensure that American companies have the best and the most and first,\u201d Huang told reporters before his meeting on Capitol Hill. <\/p>\n

He added that he shared concerns about selling AI chips to China but believed that restrictions haven\u2019t slowed Chinese advancement in the AI race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be able to compete around the world. The one thing we can\u2019t do is we can\u2019t degrade the chips that we sell to China. They won\u2019t accept that. There\u2019s a reason why they wouldn\u2019t accept that, and so we should offer the most competitive chips we can to the Chinese market,\u201d Huang said.<\/p>\n

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Huang also said he\u2019d met with Trump earlier Wednesday and discussed export controls for Nvidia\u2019s chips. Huang added that he wished the president \u201ca happy holidays.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration in May reversed Biden-era restrictions<\/a> that had prevented Nvidia and other chipmakers from exporting their chips to a wide range of countries. The White House in August also announced an unusual deal<\/a> that would allow Nvidia and another U.S. chipmaker, Advanced Micro Devices, to sell their chips in the Chinese market but would require the U.S. government to take a 15% cut of the sales.<\/p>\n

The deal divided lawmakers on Capitol Hill, where there is broad support for controls on AI exports.<\/p>\n

A growing battle in Congress<\/p>\n

Members of Congress have generally considered the sale of high-end AI chips to China to be a national security risk. China is the main competitor to the U.S. in the race to develop artificial superintelligence. Lawmakers have also proposed a flurry of bills this year to regulate AI\u2019s impact on dozens of industries, though none have become law.<\/p>\n

Most Republican senators who attended the meeting with Huang declined to discuss their conversations. But a handful described the meeting as positive and productive.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, this is a very healthy discussion to have,\u201d said Sen. Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican. Rounds said lawmakers had a \u201cgeneral discussion\u201d with Huang about the state of AI and said senators were still open to a wide range of policies.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he believed Nvidia\u2019s interests and goals were fully aligned with U.S. national security, Rounds replied: \u201cThey currently do not sell chips in China. And they understand that they\u2019re an American company. They want to be able to compete around the rest of the world. They\u2019d love to some time be able to compete in China again, but they recognize that export controls are important as well for our own national security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other Republicans were more skeptical of Huang\u2019s message.<\/p>\n

Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican who sits on the upper chamber\u2019s Banking Committee, said he skipped the meeting entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t consider him to be an objective, credible source about whether we should be selling chips to China,\u201d Kennedy told reporters. \u201cHe\u2019s got more money than the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, and he wants even more. I don\u2019t blame you for that, but if I\u2019m looking for someone to give me objective advice about whether we should make our technology available to China, he\u2019s not it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some Democrats, shut out from the meeting altogether, expressed frustration at Huang\u2019s presence on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvidently, he wants to go lobby Republicans in secret rather than explain himself,\u201d said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee.<\/p>\n

Warren added that she wanted Huang to testify in a public congressional hearing and answer \u201cquestions about why his company wants to favor Chinese manufacturers over American companies that need access to those high-quality chips.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met separately with President Donald Trump and Republican senators Wednesday as…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":423868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[229,738,13214,64,74,13212,327,84,69,324,57,59,2010,12790,49088,147,80,48567,158,89,322,67,370,326,132,68,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-423867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-advanced-micro-devices","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-asia-pacific","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-china-government","14":"tag-congress","15":"tag-district-of-columbia","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-elizabeth-warren","18":"tag-general-news","19":"tag-inc","20":"tag-jensen-huang","21":"tag-john-f-kennedy","22":"tag-mike-rounds","23":"tag-nvidia-corp","24":"tag-politics","25":"tag-semiconductor-manufacturing","26":"tag-technology","27":"tag-u-s-democratic-party","28":"tag-u-s-republican-party","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-united-states-government","31":"tag-united-states-house-of-representatives","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-washington-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}