Trump Phoned Jensen Huang Onstage at the All-In Summit to Call AI Fear a Hoax
Trump and Jensen Huang reject calls to slow AI development as Nvidia backs continued model progress, two days after Dario Amodei urged a pause.
- On Monday, Trump called Nvidia's Huang during the All-In summit, where Huang answered, "We're not going to let that happen, sir," rejecting AI apocalypse fears.
- The call occurred two days after Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Elon Musk argued industry labs should "pause or pace their work if they feel that their company is out of control."
- Trump dismissed extinction fears as a "hoax" and "not grounded in science," arguing that opposition to AI plays into the hands of those who do not want America to succeed.
- Nvidia's Huang joined Trump in rejecting the industry's slowing trend, even as researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic on September 9, criticized labs for gambling with lives, earning "great courage."
- Research suggests China-linked campaigns using ChatGPT to stir opposition are minimal, while Trump has focused on domestic data center expansion in Texas and New York, calling them "bigger than oil.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang garnered attention for using the Galaxy Z Fold 8 during a phone call with President Trump at the All In Summit 2026. President Trump directly criticized arguments for slowing down the pace of AI development and emphasized Samsung's competitive edge in technology. The use of a Samsung product by a global AI giant provided significant publicity for Samsung Electronics.
President Donald Trump of the United States, sitting on TV, interrupted the performance of Nvidia head Jensen Huang by calling the studio, as reported by NBC News.
Trump phoned Jensen Huang onstage at the All-In Summit to call AI fear a hoax
Jensen Huang was midway through an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday morning when his phone rang. It was Donald Trump. Huang put him on speakerphone, and the president opened by noting that Huang can design the most complex computer chip in the world but “can’t figure out how to put […] This story continues at The Next Web
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