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title: "Sources: President Trump's and Howard Lutnick's close relationship with Jensen Huang made officials wary of taking aggressive steps to rein in Nvidia chip sales (New York Times)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-president-trumps-and-howard-lutnicks-close-relationship-with-c0429889
published: 2026-11-13T01:35:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Sources: President Trump's and Howard Lutnick's close relationship with Jensen Huang made officials wary of taking aggressive steps to rein in Nvidia chip sales (New York Times)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-13 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-president-trumps-and-howard-lutnicks-close-relationship-with-c0429889

New York Times : Sources: President Trump's and Howard Lutnick's close relationship with Jensen Huang made officials wary of taking aggressive steps to rein in Nvidia chip sales — Howard Lutnick has frequently clashed with top officials over how to regulate sales of advanced technology to Asia …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261112/p67#a261112p67)

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