Three U.S. House committees have asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to appear for a closed-door briefing about his relationship with Alice Huang, a Taiwan-based technology executive whom China’s Ministry of State Security allegedly recruited for intelligence purposes, The New York Times reports.
According to the Times, China’s intelligence agency enlisted Alice Huang—an executive at Megaspeed, an Nvidia customer—to collect information about American AI chips and “potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China.” Alice Huang has “relationships with executives at the highest levels of the A.I. chip industry,” including leaders at Gigabyte, the newspaper reports.
The Times describes the relationship between Alice Huang and Jensen Huang, who are not related, as “close.” President Trump, who is friendly with Jensen Huang, was briefed last year about the relationship but did not take action, according to the report.
The congressional request for a briefing came this week, following the Times’ earlier reporting last week that described Jensen Huang as the target of a “Chinese spy plot.” The new detail that China’s MSS had recruited Alice Huang was reported November 6.