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Breaking OpenAI partners with Malta to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens as government AI strategy Chips Elytone Electronics expands AV design services, deepens magnetics and power tech portfolio Market India Missed Out on AI and Now Its Run as Market Darling May Be Over Market S&P 500 extends weekly win streak despite weak Trump-Xi summit signals Funding Law Firm OS, Defense Tech, and Cell-Based Alternatives Lead Weekly Startup Funding Flow Breaking Google Sunsetting reCAPTCHA, Launches Cloud Fraud Defense for Enterprise Bot Detection Breaking Ubuntu Pivots to Local AI Over Cloud-First Strategy; Canonical Bets On-Device Processing Market Global Inventory Race Intensifies on Iran Tensions; Suppliers Prioritize Nearshoring Market Cerebras IPO Revives AI Chip Startup Fever; Hardware Segment Eyes 2026 Rebound Chips RTX 5090 gaming PC bundles hit market under $4,000 as GPU-inclusive pricing strategy emerges Breaking Anthropic adds Routines to Claude for code automation workflows Funding Destinus in €200M funding talks as European defense drone makers vie for scale Chips Intel abandons Core Ultra 9 290K Plus over marginal performance gap with 270K Funding Anduril leads $3.7B in weekly funding rounds; venture activity remains strong Market Cerebras blockbuster IPO revives AI chip startup funding appetite Breaking OpenAI partners with Malta to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens as government AI strategy Chips Elytone Electronics expands AV design services, deepens magnetics and power tech portfolio Market India Missed Out on AI and Now Its Run as Market Darling May Be Over Market S&P 500 extends weekly win streak despite weak Trump-Xi summit signals Funding Law Firm OS, Defense Tech, and Cell-Based Alternatives Lead Weekly Startup Funding Flow Breaking Google Sunsetting reCAPTCHA, Launches Cloud Fraud Defense for Enterprise Bot Detection Breaking Ubuntu Pivots to Local AI Over Cloud-First Strategy; Canonical Bets On-Device Processing Market Global Inventory Race Intensifies on Iran Tensions; Suppliers Prioritize Nearshoring Market Cerebras IPO Revives AI Chip Startup Fever; Hardware Segment Eyes 2026 Rebound Chips RTX 5090 gaming PC bundles hit market under $4,000 as GPU-inclusive pricing strategy emerges Breaking Anthropic adds Routines to Claude for code automation workflows Funding Destinus in €200M funding talks as European defense drone makers vie for scale Chips Intel abandons Core Ultra 9 290K Plus over marginal performance gap with 270K Funding Anduril leads $3.7B in weekly funding rounds; venture activity remains strong Market Cerebras blockbuster IPO revives AI chip startup funding appetite

Breaking Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:02 PM

Jensen Huang excluded from Trump's China delegation amid US-China export tensions

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang was notably absent from the White House roster for President Trump's China state visit, despite the delegation including Apple's Tim Cook and Elon Musk. The snub occurs as US export controls on advanced chips remain a flashpoint in US-China negotiations, limiting NVIDIA's diplomatic role.

The exclusion underscores geopolitical risk for semiconductor executives — NVIDIA's market dominance in AI inference depends on export license predictability, a variable Trump's negotiation strategy may reshape.

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