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- Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on speakerphone on Monday while onstage at the All-In Podcast's All-In Summit, putting the president on speaker before a large crowd — not the first time the two have spoken during work events.
- Trump dismissed AI safety fears as a "hoax" during the call, telling attendees "the robots will not be taking over" and reposting similar language from Truth Social posts earlier Monday.
- Trump also weighed in on data centers, claiming some communities would be "dying" without them but were now "really wealthy," without offering specifics.
- Huang did not push back on Trump's comments, telling him instead that "We're going to make sure that everybody wins in the AI race in America. Every industry, every company, every state, every people," and appealing by noting he was addressing "thousands."
- The call followed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's weekend piece "We Must Pace the Frontier," which argued for slowing AI development and drew broad agreement from other AI executives before Trump publicly pushed back.
Why it matters: The on-stage alignment between Trump and Huang — Nvidia being the most valuable chipmaker and the chief enabler of frontier AI — pairs the White House against the AI-pause camp just as Anthropic's Dario Amodei published a widely backed call to slow down, making the administration's dismissal a direct counterweight to a rare industry consensus on safety.
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