President Donald Trump will meet with Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang at the White House on Friday as the US prepares to tee up tariffs on semiconductors, weighs the fate of a subsidy program and probes whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek skirted export controls to obtain the chipmakers’ products.

Planning for the White House meeting started weeks ago and will be the first time the two men have met. The topic of discussion will be AI policy, Barron’s has learned.

The meeting comes amid broad anxiety about the success of a Chinese artificial intelligence app called DeepSeek.

OpenAI itself has been accused of building ChatGPT by inappropriately accessing content it didn't have the rights to.

Creatives have been screaming for years that generative AI relies on the unfair use of copyrighted material. The world’s preeminent AI startup is suddenly on the other end of the debate. Well, well, well—look who suddenly wants a word with the sheriff in the fair-use Wild West landscape of artificial intelligence.

Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of U.S. rivals called "distillation." The technique,

Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China's DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of US rivals called "distillation."

Deepseek collects similar data to American-based AI models, but Chinese laws could make that data more accessible to the government.