The chipmaker answered a live White House call with applause for no industry brake

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a surprise call from President Donald Trump onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday and put the president on speaker, Herb Scribner at Axios reports. Trump told the room AI takeover fears are a “hoax.” Huang answered: “We’re not going to let that happen, sir.”

The All-In Summit is a big tech and investor conference tied to the All-In podcast. Huang was mid-interview with the hosts, including Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, and David Sacks, when the phone rang.

Trump on speaker, per Axios: “The robots will not be taking over. The AI will not be taking over the rest of the world. The whole thing is a hoax.”

Huang: “We’re going to make sure that everybody wins in the AI race of America. Every industry, every company, every state, every people.”

Amanda Silberling at TechCrunch adds the applause line: “You’re right. We’re not going to let that happen, sir.” Trump also said people urging a slowdown are “playing right in the hands of a lot of people that don’t want to see it happen,” naming “political people” and “China.” And: “We have to do things … prudently, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop an industry… So I’m with you all the way.”

Separately onstage, Huang struck a narrower tone than the president. He praised Anthropic whistleblower Jacob Coxon for “great courage,” rejected end-of-world predictions as “not grounded in science,” and said companies should “pause or pace their work if they feel that their company is out of control.”

A frontier slowdown means labs agreeing to improve AI capabilities more slowly. Huang’s company sells the processors that train and run those models. Axios also notes his prior line, via Forbes from a Goldman Sachs conference last week: cybersecurity alarm can create demand: “What better way to create demand than to create a problem.”

TechCrunch prints Gallup color that 7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers in their area, with more than half citing environmental resources. Ana-Maria Stanciuc at The Next Web flags the same call beat and Huang’s distinction between a company pausing its own work and an industry-wide brake.

The live filing is the hardware CEO on a speakerphone with the White House, applauding a no-slowdown pledge while still leaving room for a single company to pace itself. The commercial interest sits in the chips: a broad training pause would leave product unsold.

Crowd applause. Company-level caveats. Same stage.