Nvidia has reportedly developed location verification technology that will allow it to identify where its computer chips are being used – a move that comes as the artificial intelligence giant

WASHINGTON — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met separately with President Donald Trump and Republican senators Wednesday as tech executives work to secure favorable federal policies for the artificial intelligence industry, including the limited sale of Nvidia's highly valued computer chips to U.S. rivals like China.

Google, Amazon, AMD and Nvidia’s own customers are rising to challenge the 800-pound gorilla.

Federal prosecutors announced Monday the first-ever conviction in an artificial intelligence technology smuggling case, uncovering a sophisticated scheme to illegally export over $160 million worth of advanced computer chips to China through a network of shell companies and falsified shipping documents.

Nvidia has previously shown off technologies in which AI powers NPCs in video games, implying that the tensor cores in Nvidia’s GPUs will be used for more than just rendering ray-traced photons and pixels, but will be used as a fundamental part of creative interaction.

The last time so much wealth was tied up in such obscure overlapping arrangements was just before the 2008 financial crisis.

Both companies could help bring quantum computing power to AI systems, but they are taking different approaches to the technology.

China’s DeepSeek faces accusations of training its AI model with banned Blackwell AI chips, though Nvidia says it has found no such evidence. According to The Information, DeepSeek obtained Nvidia Corp.