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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang criticizes CEOs who blame AI for layoffs as a lazy narrative, arguing AI's impact isn't plausible given when AI became productive and urging a balanced, optimistic portrayal with safeguards and supportive policies; he also recounts joining President Trump on a trip to Beijing.
President Trump travels to Beijing with a delegation of top tech and finance leaders, including Elon Musk and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, to urge Xi Jinping to “open up” China, signaling a diplomacy-through-business approach aimed at shaping U.S.–China trade and tech policy.
Elon Musk and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang joined President Trump on Air Force One for a Beijing trip with a large business-leader delegation, with Musk posting from the flight via Starlink and Huang boarding at Anchorage; the visit underscores ongoing U.S.-China tech and trade interests as other executives like Tim Cook and Larry Fink accompany the president.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined President Trump’s China delegation for a high‑stakes summit with Xi Jinping, underscoring US tech ambitions in China as Nvidia presses for greater access to the Chinese market; Huang was reportedly seen boarding Air Force One with other top executives.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was added at the last minute to President Trump’s delegation for the Trump-Xi summit, after being left off the initial invite list; his presence, tied to lobbying for looser export controls on AI semiconductors, suggests tech policy discussions could be on the table alongside talks with Xi Jinping.
Nvidia confirms CEO Jensen Huang will travel to China with President Trump’s delegation this week after being invited by Trump; Huang reportedly boarded Air Force One in Alaska to join the trip, which includes a meeting with Xi Jinping in Beijing. Nvidia says Huang’s attendance supports the administration’s goals, while the White House has not commented. The trip comes as U.S. export controls on Nvidia AI chips remain a point of contention.
Trump will not invite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on his China trip, despite Nvidia’s push to sell its H200 GPUs there under a government-approved licensing scheme. The White House is prioritizing agriculture and commercial aviation on this trip, while China has blocked H200 imports, casting uncertainty over Nvidia’s China strategy and prompting production pauses; Nvidia CFO Colette Kress noted there may be no H200 sales in China ahead of Nvidia’s Q1 FY2027 results due May 20.
At a UCF graduation, a speaker praised AI as the next industrial revolution, triggering boos and a shout of “AI sucks!” as graduates voice desire for an AI-free future. Meanwhile, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang told Carnegie Mellon grads they’re at a once-in-a-generation moment to reindustrialize America, even as polls show young people are wary of the economy and job prospects.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, was reportedly left off President Donald Trump’s China business delegation, a surprising omission given Nvidia’s prominence in AI hardware, as the invite list included more than a dozen other top executives.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered Carnegie Mellon University’s 128th commencement keynote, received an honorary Doctor of Science and Technology, and urged graduates to shape what comes next in a world of accelerating AI, sharing lessons from his 30+ years at NVIDIA and engaging with CMU students ahead of the ceremony.
Fortune notes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s claim that AGI has been achieved, a statement that collides with a growing push to define and quantify general intelligence. Recent work from Google DeepMind and Hendrycks–Bengio proposes a scientific framework (a 10-facet cognitive taxonomy) to evaluate AI across domains and compare to well-educated adults, highlighting a current “jagged” profile where models excel in some areas but lag in others. Other benchmarks like ARC-AGI and debates dating back to Turing illustrate how hard it is to define intelligence, while tech giants push AGI branding for marketing and financial aims (OpenAI/Microsoft contracts referencing profit thresholds) even as leaders like Altman caution that AGI is a sloppy term. Overall, experts agree there is no universal consensus on what AGI means or how to measure it, despite ongoing progress and hype in the field.
After DLSS 5’s debut drew backlash over AI-generated visuals, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reversed his stance in a Lex Fridman podcast, saying he understands gamers’ concerns about ‘AI slop’ and that DLSS 5 is an optional, artist-directed development tool rather than a post‑processing filter, with implementation up to developers; controversy tied to a modified Resident Evil Requiem demo and Capcom’s rejection of generative AI for final assets, and DLSS 5 is slated to launch later this year on RTX 50-series GPUs.
Jensen Huang sparked a debate by saying 'we've achieved AGI' in one interview, then tempered the claim by acknowledging current AI systems still require significant human guidance; at the same time he pushes a token-based approach to scale AI work, suggesting engineers should spend more on tokens and even proposing token-based compensation, a theme that surfaced in two interviews days apart as the industry weighs what qualifies as AGI.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman that AGI has been achieved, sparking excitement, but he later walked back the claim, cautioning that many AI agents bloom briefly before fading and noting OpenClaw’s viral presence and potential social applications built around AI agents.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang claims AGI has arrived, but his reasoning rests on a narrow, test‑like definition that counts a single viral, monetizable AI moment as proof. While Fridman pushes for a broader, more transformative standard, Huang describes a scenario where an AI creates a viral app and monetizes briefly, then fades—hardly the kind of sustained, institutional intelligence people expect from AGI. The piece argues Huang’s conclusion shows how definitional flexibility can make a “yes, we’re there” answer easy, even if the real, long‑term impact remains uncertain.