From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.

This is the Daily.

In the global fight to dominate AI, China is quickly catching up to the United States,

which is why President Trump barred the

tech giant NVIDIA from selling its super-powered computer chips to Chinese companies,

until that is, a few days ago, when Trump abruptly reversed course.

Today, my colleague, Tripp Mikkel, on how NVIDIA's CEO persuaded Trump that the best way to beat China at AI is to help China to compete.

It's Tuesday, July 22nd.

Well, Tripp, thank you for being here in person. It's very exciting when you tech folks from the coast make your way here to New York.

Yeah, we come here to sweat.

We leave the cool air of San Francisco to sweat in New York for the summertime.

Yeah, well, I apologize for the weather here, but nothing else.

So, as you know, we cover a lot of AI here on the daily because its impact on everything grows day after day.

And here in the United States, the idea is that to be number one at AI, we need to stay ahead of China, our number one adversary when it comes to AI.

And that means restricting what American companies

who hold the keys to AI's future can do in China.

And that really means restricting

what a single company can do, Nvidia.

That's a company you cover.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, in the age of AI,

Nvidia makes the most powerful chips to develop artificial intelligence. They have a 90% market share

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