
Elon Musk and Tim Cook, far right, were among the U.S. chief executives in attendance during a state banquet in Beijing last week.

Elon Musk and Tim Cook, far right, were among the U.S. chief executives in attendance during a state banquet in Beijing last week.

Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, said he did not bring up the chip with Chinese officials in Beijing last week.

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President Trump and Jensen Huang of Nvidia in April. The Nvidia leader persuaded the president to approve A.I. chip sales by arguing that preventing them would only hurt U.S. tech companies.

President Trump is expected to meet President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Alaska on Friday to discuss the war in Ukraine.

Jensen Huang, Nvidiaβs chief executive, last month. Mr. Huang and President Trump struck the 15 percent arrangement at a White House meeting last week.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, left, and Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, at a hearing on artificial intelligence in May. Mr. Blumenthal and Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, plan to announce a sweeping framework to regulate A.I.