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Ari Hawkins retweeted
OpenAI has gone quiet on chip export controls it pushed for much of last year — and Nvidia is a big winner.
My latest with @_AriHawkins, who killed it on this piece. Link below.
As lame duck battle over chips heats up, OpenAI pulls back w/ @__gabbymiller subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
Ari Hawkins retweeted
"The semiconductor projects are part of a series of foreign investment deals that Trump has announced in recent weeks as Republicans scramble to defend their economic record to voters ahead of the midterm elections" @_AriHawkins subscriber.politicopro.com/a…
Ari Hawkins retweeted
Nvidia and AMD are lobbying the Trump administration to stop Congress from curbing chip exports to China, @_arihawkins reports.
“A dream scenario would be a direct-to-lawmakers Trump intervention,” said a person with knowledge of the campaign.
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Nvidia, AMD want Trump to keep their chips flowing to China
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Ari Hawkins retweeted
Update:
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang & Palantir CEO Alex Karp will also be there
Attending tomorrow’s White House AI meeting with Trump & Johnson so far, per 4 people:
OpenAI President Greg Brockman
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Google CEO Sundar Pichai
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Ari Hawkins retweeted
"Key differences in the White House readout of the leaders’ summit outcomes and a Chinese Commerce Ministry fact sheet suggest both sides continue to struggle for consensus on key trade friction points" @oli_ward_1 @_AriHawkins politico.com/news/2026/09/26…
Trump’s do-no-harm summit with Xi w/ @drdesrochers @PhelimKine, @oli_ward_1 politico.com/news/2026/09/25…
Ari Hawkins retweeted
In today's @playbookdc —
-- Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrives in Washington, but don't expect a grand bargain on AI
-- Scott Bessent announced a new AI safety "notification mechanism," which as I scooped with @PhelimKine and @_AriHawkins yesterday, is an open channel between him and He Lifeng
-- Beyond that, comments I heard for the hopes of anything more robust on AI included: "Zero chance" and "I don't know if there will ever be" a U.S.-China deal on AI
-- As far as what the WH is looking for out of the visit to declare it a success? One senior WH official quipped to me, “We’re going to say that regardless."
Bessent says US, China trade truce extended by two months w/@oli_ward_1 politico.com/news/2026/09/23…
Ari Hawkins retweeted
Scoop: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's proposed AI safety "notification mechanism" is simpler than that moniker suggests: It's an open channel between him and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, four people familiar told me, @PhelimKine and @_AriHawkins. politico.com/news/2026/09/22…
Businesses ‘frozen out’ of Trump’s tariff channel with China w/ @PhelimKine politico.com/news/2026/09/22…
Ari Hawkins retweeted
Nvidia facing signs of resistance on Capitol Hill as AI politics take a turn.
One Senate aide said Jensen Huang’s recent visits have “repeatedly been seen as tone deaf, as he’s openly dismissed or downplayed the risks of AI."
@kelseybrugger @_arihawkins
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Trump spared fishing gear and cement from his Canadian trade war. Voters may not care.
W/@oli_ward_1 politico.com/news/2026/09/09…
Ari Hawkins retweeted
Trump hits back at Canadian tariffs with government procurement threat dlvr.it/TVNpMC
Ari Hawkins retweeted
Scooplet: Howard Lutnick is traveling to Mexico for trade talks with President Claudia Sheinbaum and other top Mexican officials, as the tariff stalemate with the United States’ other North American neighbor deepens. w/ @_AriHawkins @oli_ward_1 politico.com/news/2026/09/08…
With Canada trade on the rocks, Lutnick heads to Mexico w/@oli_ward_1 @meganmesserly politico.com/news/2026/09/08…
Ari Hawkins retweeted
ICYMI: House Republicans pressed USTR Jamieson Greer this afternoon amid the ongoing trade war with Canada. Many of the Republicans were from northern border states.
Rep. John James, the GOP nominee for governor in Michigan, stood up during the lunch to raise some concerns to Greer.
“We’re going to continue to follow up to make sure that all sides are continuing to negotiate in good faith, because Michigan is not a pawn in these trade negotiations,” James told me, when asked about it.
He added, “Canada is a very important trading partner with the United States of America and Michigan, and we have to make sure that we repair the wrongs of learning the past without cratering our future.”
More w @oli_ward_1 @_AriHawkins: politico.com/news/2026/09/02…
Mamma mia! How a panic over pasta prices prompted a Trump tariff retreat. W/@oli_ward_1 politico.com/news/2026/09/01…
Ari Hawkins retweeted
GOP lawmakers seek answers from Trump trade chief on Canada tariffs (w/@Reporter_Mia, @_AriHawkins)
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