Trump's unusual Nvidia deal raises new corporate and national security risks, lawmakers and experts say

Aug 11 (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump upended decades of U.S. national security policy, creating an entirely new category of corporate risk, when he made a deal with Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab to give the U.S. government a cut of its sales in exchange for resuming exports of banned AI chips to China.

Historically, the U.S. government made decisions to control the export of sensitive technologies on national security grounds. Those decisions were viewed as non-negotiable; if a technology was controlled, companies could not buy their way around those controls, no matter how lucrative the foregone foreign sales.