Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered his first keynote at the Washington, D.C., iteration of the GTC developer conference, highlighting the deepening relationship between the world’s leading chip maker and the U.

Unsuspecting YouTube viewers looking for Nvidia's GTC keynote on Tuesday might well have found themselves accidentally watching a Jensen Huang deepfake promoting a cryptocurrency scam, after YouTube promoted the video over the official stream.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang donated to fund the construction of U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, he told reporters, joining other tech leaders supporting the project.

The Santa Clara chipmaker is now worth more than the stock markets of Netherlands, Spain, UAE, Italy and Poland combined, making it increasingly influential. With a 50% gain in 2025 alone, Nvidia now accounts for 9% of the S&P 500, raising questions about market concentration and valuation sustainability.

At the company’s annual developers confab, Huang mentioned several times that half of the world’s AI researchers come from China.

On Wednesday, Nvidia became the first company to achieve a $5 trillion market value. The next two biggest companies are Microsoft and Apple, and each has a market value of around $4 trillion. Four months after crossing $4 trillion mark, Nvidia has become the first company to ever achieve a $5 trillion market capitalization.

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced a flurry of new partnerships and dismissed concerns about an AI bubble, saying the company’s latest chips are on track to generate half a trillion dollars in revenue.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expands ties in South Korea and Washington as Trump’s Asia tour shapes future AI chip trade with China.