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Jensen Huang, Nvidia's indomitable CEO, dominated headlines this week with fiery takes on the AI arms race straight from his marathon chat on the Dwarkesh Podcast. South China Morning Post reports he slammed the idea of Chinese startup DeepSeek optimizing its hot new models on Huawei chips as a horrible outcome for America, warning it could let China, fueled by endless energy and brainpower, leapfrog US AI supremacy. He dismissed rivals like Googles TPUs and Amazons Trainium as no real threat, insisting Nvidias full-stack ecosystem from electrons to tokens crushes them on performance per dollar, per Stocktwits coverage. Huang rejected any loser talk about ceding China, per Times of India, boasting CUDAs sticky grip keeps Nvidia winning where it competes and blasting US export curbs for turbocharging Huawei instead. He even poured cold water on AI hype, telling Morningstar its no nuke thatll wipe out jobs, just a tool needing US-China dialogue after Anthropics Mythos breakthrough, as Moneycontrol noted.

On the business front, Nvidia dropped Ising on April 14, the worlds first open AI models for quantum computing, with Huang hailing it as the operating system turning qubits into scalable quantum-GPU powerhouses, straight from Nvidias newsroom. Last week, he hit Stanford for a public powwow with Congressman Ro Khanna and HR McMaster on US AI leadership and workforce shifts, clips buzzing on YouTube where he mused English might become programmings future language thanks to AI.

No fresh headlines in the last 24 hours, but these salvos underscore Huangs biographical arc as the defiant architect steering Nvidia through geopolitical minefields toward quantum horizons and trillion-dollar dreams.

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