Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says White House declaration has major impact on AI industry

Jensen Huang just got exactly what he wanted from Washington. The Nvidia CEO joined a lineup of AI’s biggest names at a White House luncheon on September 29, where President Trump unveiled a voluntary self-regulation accord that effectively tells the industry: police yourselves, we’re staying out of the way. The White House lunch that could define AI policy for years The guest list read like a tech power summit. Elon Musk of xAI and Tesla, OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai all sat down with Trump to hash out the future of AI governance in America. The result was a collective agreement to self-regulate rather than submit to prescriptive government mandates. Trump compared the significance of AI to the industrial revolution. He also floated the idea of rebranding AI technology as “super intelligence” and pledged that the US would “never stifle” its growth. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reinforced the administration’s stance, confirming that Trump is “completely aligned” with Huang’s views on AI policy. Huang’s growing influence in Washington Huang played a key role in influencing adjustments to export rules that allowed limited sales of advanced chips, including...