Sen. Warren Invites Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to Senate Hearing on China AI Chip Sales — June 11 Testimony on Export Controls and AI Dominance

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sent a formal letter to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on June 4 inviting him to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on June 11, 2026, CNBC reported. The hearing will cover Nvidia's views on US export control laws, its business operations in China, and the company's central role in the global AI boom. Warren requested Huang confirm attendance by June 8. The invitation came as a direct consequence of three overlapping controversies: (1) Huang accompanied President Trump to Beijing for the May 14–15 US-China summit with Xi Jinping and openly lobbied for chip export relaxation while there — yet the summit produced zero Nvidia H200 chip shipments to China; (2) Huang publicly stated on May 21 that Nvidia has 'largely conceded' China's AI chip market to Huawei, calling the export ban 'largely backfired' commercially — the first CEO-level admission that export controls transferred China's AI hardware market to a domestic competitor; (3) US BIS clarified June 1 that chip restrictions apply to all Chinese-parented firms globally, closing a loophole that Nvidia's China-linked customers had exploited. Warren also called for an excise tax on data centers to fund social safety net programs given AI-driven labor market disruption. The June 11 hearing would be the first Congressional examination of Nvidia's China posture in the context of the May 2026 Trump-Xi summit outcome, creating a potential policy flashpoint on whether the US-China AI safety dialogue announced by Treasury Secretary Bessent constitutes adequate constraint on China's AI chip access, or whether a new tighter enforcement regime is needed.