Day: November 5, 2025

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has dialed up his warning that the US is falling behind China in AI.
• He said Beijing’s subsidies are supercharging its tech firms while US rules pile up.
• Washington has banned sales of Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips to China.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has intensified his warnings about the United States falling behind China in the race for artificial intelligence dominance, saying the East Asian nation could soon pull ahead.

“China is going to win the AI race,” Huang told the Financial Times on the sidelines of the media outlet’s Future of AI Summit on Wednesday.

His blunt remarks underscored the shrinking technological gap between the world’s two largest economies, locked in both a trade war and a battle for AI supremacy.

Huang told the FT that “cynicism” is holding the West back — and that it needs “more optimism” to compete.

He pointed to a growing wave of AI regulations emerging across US states, warning that too many new rules could stifle innovation.

By contrast, China’s government energy subsidies make it cheaper for local tech companies to power homegrown AI chips, he said.

“Power is free,” he said.

Later on Wednesday, Huang reiterated his position in a post on X: “As I have long said, China is nanoseconds behind America in AI. It’s vital that America wins by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide.”

Nvidia, now the world’s most valuable company by market capitalization, has faced mounting pressure from US policymakers to limit sales of its cutting-edge semiconductors to Chinese firms.

At Nvidia’s GTC in Washington last month, Huang said the US must stay engaged with China’s developer community if it hopes to maintain its AI edge.

“We want the world to be built on American tech stack,” Huang said at the time.

“But we also need to be in China to win their developers. A policy that causes America to lose half of the world’s AI developers is not beneficial long term, it hurts us more,” he said.

On Tuesday, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the Trump administration does not plan to let Nvidia sell its most advanced Blackwell chips to China.

In May, Huang said the US crackdown on chip exports to China — which have hit Nvidia’s business hard — was “a failure” as the restrictions were driving Chinese tech firms to accelerate their own AI developments.

• The USDA is moving forward with partial SNAP payments for November.
• In a court filing, the USDA said it followed an earlier court order to tap its contingency fund for SNAP benefits.
• Earlier this week, Trump said that he would withhold food stamps until the government reopened.

The US Department of Agriculture is moving ahead with partial SNAP payments for November, despite President Donald Trump’s threat to cut them off.

SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, provides monthly food benefits to about 42 million low-income Americans.

In a Wednesday court filing in Rhode Island, the USDA said it has complied with an earlier court order, issued on October 31, to “disburse the funds in its contingency fund” to support SNAP benefits.

The agency said that although the contingency fund “has never before been used to fund benefits in a lapse due to Congressional opposition to continuing appropriations,” it “took the steps necessary to use the fund” to help cover November SNAP benefits — marking the first time it’s been tapped during a funding lapse. The USDA added that the funds are generally “used in the event of a disaster, such as a hurricane, to provide critical relief.”

However, since the funds weren’t enough to cover full payments, the USDA said it told states to cut November benefits by half.

On Tuesday, the agency issued guidance to states regarding the reduced payment amounts for November. For a single person living in the 48 continental states and in D.C., their monthly amount will be reduced to a maximum of $149.

In the filing, the USDA also said it decided against diverting billions from the Child Nutrition Programs to fund SNAP. “The result would be a substantial shortfall in funding school meals, among other things, that would likely not be filled by any future appropriation,” it said.

This court filing comes after Trump’s Truth Social post on Tuesday, in which he threatened to withhold SNAP benefits until the government reopens.

“SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden’s disastrous term in office. (Due to the fact that they were haphazardly ‘handed’ to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need, which is the purpose of SNAP!), will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before! ” the president wrote in a Truth Social post.

Last week, federal judges in Rhode Island and Massachusetts ordered the Trump administration to continue funding SNAP during the government shutdown.

Representatives for USDA and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.