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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put President Trump on speakerphone during the All-In Summit this week, with the president reassuring the crowd that robots won't be taking over anytime soon. It was a theatrical moment, but it underscores just how tightly Silicon Valley and Washington have become entwined in the AI era.
From spectacle to surveillance — President Trump has voiced support for Flock's AI-powered license plate readers, even as a bipartisan coalition in the Senate launches an investigation into the technology. Bernie Sanders has pledged legislation to push back. The cameras are already widespread, and the debate over who watches the watchers is only getting louder.
On the infrastructure side, a company called Cornelis has raised two hundred and five million dollars to build faster networking technology for AI chips. The pitch is straightforward — Nvidia dominates the chip market, but how those chips talk to each other matters enormously. Cornelis is betting that the interconnect layer is where the next competitive opening lives.
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