Niccolo De Masi

And ultimately, that kind of a transaction never even came up in the conversations between the two leaders.

And yet the whole.

broader issue of whether Nvidia would be able to sell a more sophisticated version of its AI chips to China really hasn't gone away completely.

And we had our exclusive last week, Kara, that you saw showing that the president and his advisors are deliberating this question.

And it appears that they are settled on whether or not to allow the H200, which is of the hopper design and still a very fast and very powerful AI chip

If they allowed this sale, it would be a big change in U.S.

export control policy with respect to China and artificial intelligence.

The Trump administration and its predecessor, the Biden administration, view China as the top U.S.

competitor in this area of artificial intelligence.

And granting them, China that is, the technology to be able to advance in this race is a very sensitive question here in Washington.

Well, Carol, I'm glad you asked that because that really is the debate right now.

And Jensen Wang is very much at the center.

He has been arguing that, look, if we want to compete with China globally in the race for artificial intelligence dominance, we need to be able to compete inside China, too.

And that means we will have to sell some of our technology in the Chinese market, which happens to be the world's largest market for semiconductors right now.

Now, that is an argument that has won some favor inside the administration.

And you heard during the interview this morning between our colleagues Lisa Abramowitz and Donnie Berger and the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the secretary articulated that himself, that there is a tension and a debate.

There are others who are more hawkish on the national security side, though, Carol, who view granting China any sort of access to this sophisticated technology simply paves the way for creating more risk for the U.S.,

It would grant Beijing's authorities, including the military and intelligence apparatus, access to more sophisticated technology and artificial intelligence than they currently have right now.

And it could allow for more surveillance and other uses in advanced weaponry that the U.S.

would just as soon not see happen.