Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declines Warren request to testify at AI hearing

Sen. Elizabeth Warren had invited Huang to discuss Nvidia’s business in China at a Senate committee meeting about America’s AI industry.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declined an invitation from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to testify at a Senate committee hearing later this week about American AI development, NBC News has learned.

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Thursday’s hearing, held by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, will examine AI’s role in American innovation, affordability and technological dominance. Warren had requested Huang’s attendance to learn more about Nvidia’s business in China and its approach to export controls — rules that regulate sales of American AI technology abroad.

“NVIDIA sits at the center of some of the most important questions facing our country about artificial intelligence, economic competition, and national security,” Warren wrote in a statement about Huang’s decision not to attend. “If Mr. Huang has time to attend a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago and fly across the world to meet with President Xi Jinping of China, he should be able to find time to answer questions from Congress.”