Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump: "We're not going to let an AI slowdown happen"

Jensen Huang got an unscheduled guest on stage this week — the President of the United States, live, on speakerphone. During a panel at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, Huang's phone rang mid-interview. It was Trump, calling to make sure the Nvidia CEO was still committed to full speed ahead on AI.

The call landed at a pointed moment: chip stocks had already opened sharply lower that morning, and Trump had spent the day dismissing AI-risk warnings on social media. On the call, he told the crowd flatly, "The robots will not be taking over... The whole thing is a hoax." Huang's response left little room for ambiguity. Despite the show of confidence, Nvidia shares still fell roughly 3% that day, with Intel and AMD dropping even further

The subtext is a growing rift inside the industry itself. Huang's stance directly contrasts with recent warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, whose comments over the preceding weekend reportedly prompted Trump's call in the first place, according to Bloomberg's reporting on the exchange.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman have both voiced some support for Amodei's calls for a more measured pace, leaving Huang and Nvidia notably isolated among major AI figures in publicly rejecting the idea that the buildout needs to slow down at all — a divide that's likely to keep shaping how Washington approaches AI oversight in the months ahead.