Jensen Huang just delivered the most important commencement speech in tech this year and buried inside it were two argum…
Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-05-17
Jensen Huang's 2026 commencement speech included two arguments directed at Washington policymakers, using the 1999 collapse of Lucent Technologies as a historical warning about the risks of ceding technology leadership.
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- Jensen Huang delivered a commencement speech containing explicit arguments aimed at Washington policymakers.
- Huang invoked the 1999 Lucent Technologies story as a historical warning about the consequences of losing technology leadership.
- The speech is framed as the most important tech commencement address of the year.
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Jensen Huang just delivered the most important commencement speech in tech this year and buried inside it were two arguments aimed directly at Washington.
In 1999, Lucent Technologies was the [truncated]