Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Took a Call From Donald Trump in the Middle of an All-Hands
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President Donald Trump interrupted Nvidia’s all-hands staff meeting on Thursday morning when he called CEO Jensen Huang midway through, three sources who witnessed the interaction tell WIRED.
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President Donald Trump interrupted Nvidia’s all-hands staff meeting on Thursday morning when he called CEO Jensen Huang midway through, three sources who witnessed the interaction tell WIRED
The Information recently reported that Nvidia agreed to acquire the open-source platform company Hugging Face, which makes AI data sets, models, and development tools widely available to software
Nvidia and the Trump administration haven’t always agreed on how to regulate open AI models and sales of advanced chips to China
Nvidia’s all-hands meetings typically involve Huang presenting or answering questions, on stage, to in-person staff at the company’s Santa Clara, California, headquarters, while thousands of remote
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Nvidia’s all-hands meetings typically involve Huang presenting or answering questions, on stage, to in-person staff at the company’s Santa Clara, California, headquarters, while thousands of remote employees tune in to a virtual livestream. Staffers could clearly hear Trump’s distinctive voice through Huang’s onstage microphone, although they couldn’t make out what he was saying. In a post on social media later that day, Trump congratulated Huang on Nvidia’s "incredible" quarterly sales and rosy financial forecast for next year. Huang regularly jet-sets to Washington to lobby government officials on behalf of his company’s interests—selling chips and building AI infrastructure—and has been in closed-door meetings with Trump before.