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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump 'we're not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen'

AnnouncementPolicySep 14, 2026

During Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's appearance at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, President Donald Trump called him onstage and was placed on speaker before attendees. Discussing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow AI progress — a position publicly backed by SpaceX's Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman — Trump called the sentiment "a hoax" and warned against China benefiting. Gallup polling shows seven in 10 Americans oppose nearby data center construction.

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