National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett tries to explain why the Trump Administration allowed Nvidia to sell AI chips in China in exchange for a 15 percent cut.
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Government officials are pledging to go after alleged left-wing organizations they believe are funding political violence.




“What sort of involvement did the Trump Administration have in this agreement?” asked the FT’s Michael Acton on the call. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:
The Trump Administration had no involvement in the partnership at all, and they would have been very supportive, of course. And today I had the opportunity to tell Secretary Lutnick, and he was very excited, very supportive of seeing American technology companies working together.
I’m on the call where Nvidia and Intel are explaining their $5B deal, but the call began with a hot mic:
His majesty was delightful. The cognac was excellent, but just not enough of it. I guess the cognac was from 1912.
Huang joined Trump’s state visit to London this week.
With Jimmy Kimmel off the air for now, several party leaders issued a statement over the FCC Chairman’s actions, but what will they do about it?




David Sacks received financial conflict of interest waivers to join the White House. Those waivers, are meant to attract outside experts to work for the government temporarily, but the job comes with time limits. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) are now asking if Sacks has overstayed his welcome.

Two terrorism-related charges against Mangione were dropped at a court hearing on Tuesday in the New York state case.







