President Trump will meet with the CEO of chipmaking powerhouse Nvidia on Friday as the White House reportedly mulls tightening chip exports to China, a White House official confirmed to The Hill.

The meeting with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang comes as competition between the U.S. and China heats up over artificial intelligence (AI) development amid the surge of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek earlier this week.

No other details on the meeting were provided.

The popularity of DeepSeek's new large language model, R1, stunned Silicon Valley and the stock market earlier this........

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