The high-stakes battle culminated in Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang coming to Washington on Wednesday to meet with Donald Trump and key lawmakers. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/Postmedia files

Nvidia Corp. is on the verge of securing a massive lobbying win after United States lawmakers kept a measure out of must-pass defence legislation that would have limited the company’s ability to sell their advanced artificial intelligence chips to China and other adversary nations.

The so-called GAIN AI Act would require chipmakers , including Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. , to give American customers first dibs on their powerful AI chips before selling in China and other arms-embargoed countries. Lawmakers sought to advance the proposal as part of the annual defe

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