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Trump called Nvidia's Jensen Huang live onstage to call AI safety concerns 'a hoax'

The Nvidia CEO answered a call from the president while he was onstage at a summit. Put on speakerphone for the crowd, Trump called data centers "the oil of the next 20, 25 years"

President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang last year at the White House. (Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump phoned Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang while Huang was speaking onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday, using the live call to dismiss concerns about artificial intelligence safety as "a hoax." The call, which lasted around five minutes with Trump on speakerphone, was captured on video by an attendee and circulated........

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