Washington | Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over his handling of a Singaporean company at the heart of revelations about Chinese spying on Nvidia, demanding to know why the United States had not already banned sales of advanced artificial intelligence chips to the firm.
The exchange, which took place at the White House last week and was described by people briefed on it, highlighted growing tensions inside the Trump administration over AI policy in general and the Commerce Department’s posture towards Nvidia in particular.
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