Trump calls Jensen Huang during Nvidia all-hands (2026)

Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during an all-hands meeting on Thursday, first reported by Wired. Earlier that day, Nvidia announced an employee-funded political action committee as debate around AI policy grew; the company and the Trump administration had not always agreed on how to regulate open AI models and sales of advanced chips to China.

Nvidia’s all-hands meetings typically involve Huang presenting or answering questions on stage to in-person staff at the company’s Santa Clara, California, headquarters, while thousands of remote employees tune in to a virtual livestream. During Thursday’s meeting, Huang received a call on his mobile phone and stepped aside to take it.

Staffers could clearly hear Trump’s distinctive voice through Huang’s onstage microphone but could not make out what he was saying. Huang returned to the stage less than a minute later, and staffers were abuzz about the inadvertent interruption.

Trump later congratulated Huang in a social media post on Nvidia’s “incredible” quarterly sales and rosy financial forecast for next year. Nvidia had reported second-quarter revenue of $96 billion on Wednesday, up 106 percent from the same period last year.

Huang regularly travels to Washington to lobby government officials on Nvidia’s interests in selling chips and building AI infrastructure. He has also been in closed-door meetings with Trump before.

Huang’s microphone carried Trump’s voice, but not the substance of the conversation.

Earlier on Thursday, Nvidia announced a new employee-funded political action committee. Nvidia and the Trump administration have not always agreed on how to regulate open AI models and sales of advanced chips to China. The PAC plans to donate to federal candidates as debate around AI policy grows.

Meta has reached a settlement with attorneys general from 47 states over allegations that it illegally manipulated children’s attention, first reported by Newyorker. The agreement could cost the company up to $17 billion and would change how Facebook and Instagram handle teen access through age verification, daily limits and nighttime restrictions.

Meta did not acknowledge wrongdoing. The Oakland trial turned on whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects providers from liability for user-posted content, should also shield the algorithms that shape what users see; the plaintiffs argued that it should not.

The states presented evidence that senior executives, intent on maximizing the company’s growth, repeatedly set aside concerns about what Meta’s products were doing to its youngest users. A former Meta engineer testified that the chance of a teen encountering violent or graphic content was between a hundred and four hundred times higher than what the company acknowledged publicly.

Meta also spent more than two billion dollars on legal defense in the second quarter of 2026 alone.

Under the agreement, Facebook and Instagram will remove the like count on posts, do more to verify that users are at least thirteen years old, limit service to two hours a day for teenagers and restrict service entirely for those users during nighttime hours.

The settlement was quickly compared with the tobacco lawsuits of the nineties. But Meta is a trillion-dollar company increasingly invested in artificial intelligence, and the agreement applies to only a single facet of its sprawling operations. The deal places a striking financial cost alongside product changes focused on teen users.

New technologies are being disseminated ever more quickly, while the machinery of politics and law delivers accountability intermittently and at a painstaking crawl. It took more than a decade of worrying about how teenagers used Facebook and Instagram for a legal settlement to enforce a change in Meta’s behavior.

Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, stayed away from the lawsuit, arguing that it did not go far enough. After the settlement was announced, he said, “We’ll see them at trial.”

Trump calls Jensen Huang during Nvidia all-hands

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