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A source told CNBC that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang plans to attend a state dinner President Trump is hosting for Chinese leader Xi Jinping during Xi's upcoming Washington visit. The guest list remains private, but a White House official confirmed several American business leaders have been invited to the dinner, framed as part of Trump's effort to secure favorable deals for the U.S.
Following a former Anthropic researcher's warning that unchecked AI could pose an existential threat by 2030, executives at major AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI called for outside governance of frontier model development. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed the concerns as fabricated, Chinese officials labeled them fearmongering, and President Trump downplayed the need for a slowdown while suggesting China should restrain its own AI progress. The UK's King Charles has also scheduled talks with AI leaders to discuss safer development paths.
Major AI labs have moved their attention from building ever-larger models to running inference—the process of using trained models to generate text, code, and images. This shift is driven by growing real-world use of large language models, the rise of reasoning models that repeatedly reprompt themselves, and autonomous AI agents that run continuously rather than just responding to single queries. Amazon Web Services, for instance, has split inference tasks between its Trainium chips and Cerebras's wafer-scale hardware.
Jensen Huang has been seen publicly using a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, a device he reportedly received as a gift from Samsung Electronics' chairman last year. The sighting suggests Huang has adopted the foldable as his personal phone rather than just accepting it as a courtesy gift.
Sam Altman reportedly sought a one-on-one meeting with Donald Trump last week, while Jensen Huang publicly praised Trump by phone during an on-stage appearance. The overtures come as industry leaders and policymakers argue over whether to pause or accelerate AI development.
At the All-In conference in Los Angeles, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a live on-stage phone call from President Trump using a Samsung Galaxy Fold 8, not an Apple device as initially reported. During the call, the two discussed AI safety, with Trump dismissing fears about AI risks as a 'hoax' benefiting China and political opponents, and Huang appearing to agree that the technology's momentum shouldn't be slowed.
During a live session at the All-In Summit, President Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who put the call on speaker for the audience. The two discussed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's suggestion that AI development should slow down, with Trump dismissing the idea as a 'hoax' possibly pushed by political rivals or China, and Huang agreeing that such a slowdown would not be allowed to happen.
President Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while Huang was speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, and was put on speakerphone to address the audience. Trump dismissed growing concerns about AI and data center expansion as a hoax, arguing that data centers create wealth for people and states. The call followed a weekend of Trump social media posts attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow AI development and rejecting calls for new AI regulation.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a live call from President Trump during his appearance at the All-In Podcast's summit, broadcasting it to the audience over speakerphone. Trump used the moment to dismiss AI safety concerns as a 'hoax,' insisting robots would not take over, and touted data centers as an economic boon for struggling communities. Huang did not challenge Trump's remarks, instead praising the administration's approach to AI competitiveness.
At the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang repeated the company's guidance that revenue could climb 70% year-over-year next year, building on roughly $400 billion expected this fiscal year to around $680 billion. He described Nvidia's GPU systems as massive, multimillion-dollar installations requiring airplanes to ship, and noted 27% month-over-month order growth for its combined Grace CPU-Blackwell GPU systems.
At Goldman Sachs' Communacopia + Technology Conference, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told CNBC's David Faber that AI is neither good nor bad by nature, comparing it to nuclear power that can either power a city or destroy one. He framed AI's rise as a 'cognitive revolution' that could make humans smarter rather than replace them, urging people to ride the technological shift instead of being overwhelmed by it.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, which the company describes as its safest and most capable model yet, trained on roughly 100,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Nvidia's Jensen Huang publicly declared that AGI has been achieved, while OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki offered a more cautious framing, likening the model to an 'alien mind' that only simulates aspects of human behavior rather than replicating it. Independent benchmarks place Astra roughly on par with rival Fable 5.1, though reportedly cheaper to run per task.