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Lutnick under fire: How Trump’s commerce secretary cultivated Nvidia’s CEO while chip controls slipped

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By Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The first call, as Jensen Huang remembers it, came from Howard Lutnick. It was around the start of Donald Trump’s second term, and Lutnick was preparing to become his Commerce Secretary.

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    By Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The first call, as Jensen Huang remembers it, came from Howard Lutnick. It was around the start of Donald Trump’s second term, and Lutnick was preparing to become his Commerce Secretary.

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