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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declines Senate testimony on AI, China, exports

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declines Senate testimony on AI, China, exports

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Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, arrives at a Korean barbecue restaurant for a dinner meeting with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo, and Naver Chairman Lee Hae-jin in Seoul, South Korea, on June 5, 2026. Chris Jung | Nurphoto | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declined an invitation from Sen. Elizabeth Warren to testify before the Senate Banking Committee this Thursday, as lawmakers increase scrutiny of the chipmaker’s China business and its role at the center of the global AI boom. Huang’s decision means one of the most powerful executives in AI will not appear at a hearing focused on American AI development, innovation, affordability and U.S. technological dominance. Warren, D-Mass., had asked Huang to testify about Nvidia’s business in China and its views on U.S. export controls, which govern the sale of advanced American technology abroad. Huang said he would be “unable to attend.” The exchange underscores the growing pressure facing Nvidia in Washington as policymakers debate whether advanced AI chips should be sold more broadly around the …

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declines Warren request to testify at AI hearing

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declines Warren request to testify at AI hearing

Published by Sam Flores

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declined an invitation from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to testify at a Senate committee hearing later this week about American AI development, NBC News has learned. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Thursday’s hearing, held by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, will examine AI’s role in American innovation, affordability and technological dominance. Warren had requested Huang’s attendance to learn more about Nvidia’s business in China and its approach to export controls — rules that regulate sales of American AI technology abroad. “NVIDIA sits at the center of some of the most important questions facing our country about artificial intelligence, economic competition, and national security,” Warren wrote in a statement about Huang’s decision not to attend. “If Mr. Huang has time to attend a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago and fly across the world to meet with President Xi Jinping of China, he should be able to find time to answer questions from Congress.” Nvidia is the world’s …

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declines Senate testimony on AI, China, exports

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang invited to Senate hearing on China AI chips

Published by Sam Flores

BEIJING, CHINA – MAY 14: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang waves as he prepares to depart the Great Hall of the People on May 14, 2026 in Beijing, China. Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is being invited to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on June 11 as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sharpens her focus on the chipmaker’s China sales, export controls and role at the center of the global AI boom. “Appearing as a witness will give you an opportunity to testify about NVIDIA’s views on U.S. export control laws and regulations and NVIDIA’s business in China,” Warren wrote in a letter sent Thursday and first obtained by CNBC. She asked Huang to confirm his attendance by Monday. Nvidia’s chips power many of the data centers behind advanced AI models, making the company one of the biggest winners of the artificial intelligence surge. But that dominance has also drawn growing attention from lawmakers and national security officials who warn advanced U.S. chips could be used by China …

Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ 0B market for Nvidia

Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia

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Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang is, perhaps, one of the greatest corporate hype men of all time when it comes to his company. He may even surpass Salesforce’s Marc Benioff when it comes to relentless optimism in his company’s future and revenues. Even so, he delivers on the hype, quarter after quarter. Instead of cautioning you to view the proclamation that he’s found a “brand new $200 billion TAM for Nvidia” with skepticism, I’d argue he’s earned a bit of trust. Huang positioned this massive new market at the feet of Nvidia’s new CPU product, Vera, which was introduced in March. Speaking on Wednesday’s earnings call — after Nvidia posted another record-breaking quarter with $81.6 billion in revenue and forecast $91 billion for the next — Huang pitched Vera as a potentially transformative product. And one that already has promising sales figures. But no matter how well Nvidia delivers, Wall Street harbors anxiety over what will knock Nvidia from its perch. Lately, such fears have centered on the CPU. Nvidia is the king of …

Jensen Huang joins Trump’s China trip after the U.S. president called the Nvidia CEO

Jensen Huang joins Trump’s China trip after the U.S. president called the Nvidia CEO

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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia speaks with CNBC on May 5, 2026. CNBC BEIJING — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has joined U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to China, after initial indications the executive had not been invited. After seeing the media coverage of Huang’s absence from the delegation, Trump called the Nvidia executive and asked him to join, a source familiar with the situation told CNBC. Huang flew to Alaska to board Air Force One, the source said. Trump is bringing more than a dozen U.S. executives to Beijing this week where he is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday and Friday. “Jensen is attending the summit at the invitation of President Trump to support America and the administration’s goals,” a spokesperson for the chip giant said in a statement. Nvidia referred to the same comment when asked about Huang joining mid-journey in Alaska, but did not provide a reason. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a social media post, Trump confirmed Huang was on …

As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’

As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’

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When it comes to the specter of AI’s labor-displacing potential, Jensen Huang thinks that the American worker has nothing to fear. During a conversation Monday night with MSNBC’s Becky Quick hosted by the Milken Institute — an economic policy think tank, the jovial Nvidia CEO said that AI was an industrial-scale generator of jobs, not the harbinger of mass unemployment that so-called “AI doomers” have often accused it of being. A number of different topics were broached during the talk, but a central theme that kept coming back was the ongoing economic anxiety surrounding the AI industry and whether it was something Americans should be legitimately worried about. At one point Quick noted: “This is happening so quickly. Is there a bigger dislocation than we’ve seen in the past that leads to greater inequality? And what do we do about that?” Throughout the night, Huang struck an optimistic note. “AI creates jobs,” Huang asserted during the discussion, adding that “AI is [the] United States’ best opportunity to re-industrialize” itself. Huang noted that the AI industry …

Jensen Huang just put Nvidia’s Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the trillion stratosphere

Jensen Huang just put Nvidia’s Blackwell and Vera Rubin sales projections into the $1 trillion stratosphere

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang threw out a lot of numbers — mostly of the technical variety — during his keynote Monday to kick off the company’s annual GTC Conference in San Jose, California. But there was one financial figure that investors surely took notice of: his projection that there will be $1 trillion worth of orders for Nvidia’s Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips, a monetary reflection of a booming AI business. About an hour into his keynote, Huang noted that last year Nvidia saw about $500 billion in demand for its Blackwell and upcoming Rubin chips through 2026. “Now, I don’t know if you guys feel the same way, but $500 billion is an enormous amount of revenue,” he said. “Well, I’m here to tell you that right now where I stand — a few short months after GTC DC, one year after last GTC — right here where I stand, I see through 2027, at least $1 trillion.” The Rubin computing chip architecture, which was first announced in 2024, has been described by Huang …

How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote — and what to expect

How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote — and what to expect

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Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, California, on Monday with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET. GTC — which stands for GPU Technology Conference — is Nvidia’s flagship annual event, running from March 16 to March 19. The chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, champion partnerships, and lay out its vision for the future of computing. Huang’s keynote will focus on Nvidia’s role in the future of computing and AI. You can watch the two-hour address in person at the SAP Center or livestream the talk on the event’s website. The broader three-day event is focused on what’s coming next for AI across industries, including healthcare, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. On the software side, it’s rumored that Nvidia will release an open source platform for enterprise AI agents, dubbed NemoClaw, as originally reported by Wired. The platform would give businesses a structured way to build and deploy AI agents (software that can carry out multistep tasks autonomously) and would position …

How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote — and what to expect

How to watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2026 keynote

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Nvidia kicks off its annual GTC developer conference in San Jose, California, next week with CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote scheduled for Monday at 11am PT / 2pm ET. GTC — which stands for GPU Technology Conference — is Nvidia’s flagship annual event, where the chipmaker typically uses the spotlight to announce new products, champion partnerships, and lay out its vision for the future of computing. Huang’s keynote will focus on Nvidia’s role in the future of computing and AI. You can watch the two-hour address in person at the SAP Center or livestream the talk on the event’s website. The broader three-day event is focused on what’s coming next for AI across industries including healthcare, robotics, and autonomous vehicles, among others. On the software side, it’s rumored that Nvidia will release an open source platform for enterprise AI agents, dubbed NemoClaw, as originally reported by Wired. The platform would give businesses a structured way to build and deploy AI agents (software that can carry out multi-step tasks autonomously) and would position Nvidia to mirror similar …

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers

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At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both, saying that once they go public as anticipated later this year, the opportunity to invest closes. It could be that simple. While firms sometimes pile into companies until practically the eve of their public debut in search of more upside, Nvidia is minting money selling the chips that power both companies — it’s not like it needs to goose its returns by pouring even more money into either one. Nvidia, for its part, isn’t offering much elaboration. Asked for comment earlier today following Huang’s remarks, a spokesman pointed TechCrunch to a transcript from the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call, where Huang said all of Nvidia’s investments are “focused very squarely, strategically on expanding and deepening our ecosystem reach,” a goal its earlier stakes in both companies have arguably met. Still, a few other dynamics might also explain the pullback, including the …