Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend
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When AI, chips, and platforms share a table with US and Chinese leadership, compute and model access are now explicit geopolitical instruments. If your roadmap depends on cross-border data, talent, or hardware, treat policy risk as a first-class constraint, not a background variable.
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