Trump Meets Xi in Beijing Accompanied by Nvidia, Tesla and Apple CEOs as US Approves Nvidia H200 Chip Sales to China

U.S. President Donald Trump flew with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook and executives from Meta, Micron, Qualcomm and Coherent on a 20+ hour flight from Alaska to China on Wednesday.

U.S. Businesses. President Xi on Thursday told American CEOs travelling with President Donald Trump that the door to business in China will open wider, state-backed newspaper Xinhua reported. U.S. business leaders had the opportunity in a meeting with President Trump and President Xi to talk about their companies.

U.S. Jamieson Greer specifically name-checked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as being in the meeting with President Trump and President Xi. Washington cleared sales of Nvidia's H200 AI chips to several major Chinese technology firms.

U.S. chips or not, they are making their own determinations.

U.S. U.S. tariffs in 2025 before a trade truce came into effect.

-China trade truce on critical minerals runs until this fall. "There's certainly a willingness on both sides, that if this continues to work out well for each country, to continue that and to extend this ability to make sure we're getting rare earths," Greer said.

U.S. access to critical and rare earth minerals are likely to continue well into the summer.

U.S. In other developments Wednesday, defense tech startup Anduril raised $5 billion in a funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, doubling its valuation to $61 billion.

U.S. To fix software issues that could allow them to drive onto a flooded roadway, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. OpenAI said on Monday it would grant the European Union access to its new cyber model. Anthropic is still holding out on releasing Mythos to the European Union.

Cerebras Systems ended its first day of trading with a market capitalization of just below $100 billion. U.S. businesses.

U.S. " Heidi Crebo-Rediker, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Cnbc earlier in the week that a licensing deal for Nvidia's H200 chips would be politically explosive and trigger a fierce backlash from China hawks in Congress.