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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and AMD’s Lisa Su seated together — future of US-China AI cooperation still unclear

Presidents Trump and Xi held a three-day summit at the White House, and Xi has already returned to Beijing as of Friday, but the outlook for US-China cooperation on AI remains unclear. Reports say Washington’s proposal to set up a US-China “hotline” has run into skepticism within Silicon Valley, with tech executives staying cautious about the idea. At Thursday night’s White House state dinner, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su were both seated at the same table as Trump and Xi, alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple Chairman Tim Cook — a rare instance of top US tech executives sitting in on a US-China diplomatic occasion up close. The original summary only covers the summit wrapping up, the uncertain AI cooperation outlook, and the state dinner seating arrangement — it doesn’t go into the specifics of the hotline proposal, why Silicon Valley is skeptical, or where AI policy goes from here. See the original article for details.

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This story is worth an AI builder’s attention because Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and AMD’s Lisa Su sitting at the same table as Trump and Xi at a White House state dinner isn’t a scene we’ve seen much of before — tech executives getting this close to a US-China diplomatic occasion.

For AI builders, it’s a reminder that the AI hardware supply chain is now deeply entangled with geopolitics — it’s not just a technical or business question anymore. Whether it’s GPU export controls, chip supply, or shifting rules around cross-border cooperation, any of it can directly affect the compute you can get, your cost structure, and your deployment options. The fact that Washington’s AI “hotline” idea is meeting skepticism within Silicon Valley also shows there’s still a gap between how the industry wants to engage with policymaking and what officials expect. It’s a good reminder that technical decisions never happen in a vacuum — upstream political uncertainty eventually trickles down to every developer calling an API or renting compute.

Worth keeping an eye on the geopolitical exposure of whatever models and hardware vendors you rely on, and avoiding dependence on a single supply chain.

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