Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday afternoon. Planning for the meeting started weeks ago prior to the DeepSeek-driven market volatility this week, according to a person familiar.

President Donald Trump is meeting with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang at the White House on Friday as the US prepares to tee up tariffs on semiconductors, weighs the fate of a subsidy program and probes whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek skirted export controls to obtain the chipmakers’ products.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the White House on Friday, when they will discuss AI and chips as well as the industry's energy needs.