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Jensen Huang used his first post on X to publish an open letter urging Washington to treat open-weight AI as a strategic asset, and CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa highlights why that matters: policy has protected silicon but not the models that sit on it. Washington has poured billions into the CHIPS Act, a public stake in Intel, and export controls on Nvidia, while open-source weights from China are proliferating and can be downloaded and run privately. The result is a policy blind spot that could reallocate where AI compute and value end up, and enterprises are increasingly worried about who owns the models they train.