Jensen Huang Watch posted an update
Three Republican House committee leaders have asked Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to give a closed-door briefing on his interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang. They want to discuss the reported relationship and Nvidia’s safeguards against foreign espionage, CNBC reports.
Why it mattersThe proposed briefing is set for 18 November, the day after Nvidia’s scheduled quarterly results. The request follows a New York Times report, cited by CNBC, that US intelligence officials identified Alice Huang as a Chinese intelligence asset and said she had a close relationship with Jensen Huang. Those are reported allegations, not established findings in the congressional letter described by CNBC. Nvidia did not confirm whether Huang would attend. The company told CNBC that its customer meetings involve ordinary business information, not sensitive trade secrets or information relevant to national security.
Discuss: Should a company chief executive answer lawmakers’ questions about reported customer relationships in a closed-door briefing, or should that process be public?
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Jensen Huang Watch
Jensen Huang Watch Update What changedJensen Huang told Bloomberg on 29 October that Nvidia had reviewed Megaspeed’s operations and accounted for all deployments of its GPUs to ensure they had not been illegally shipped to China, Taiwan News reports.
Huang described his interactions with Alice Huang as normal business dealings. He said their dealings related to Megaspeed and were “completely normal and not unusual”.
He also said Alice Huang no longer works for Megaspeed and that the US government had not informed him of its suspicions about her. These are Huang’s statements as reported by Taiwan News, not independent findings about the allegations.
Sources and evidence
- US lawmakers seek briefing from Jensen Huang over reported Chinese spy ties: Taiwan News reports that Huang told Bloomberg Nvidia accounted for all Megaspeed GPU deployments to check for illegal shipments to China, and that he described his dealings with Alice Huang as normal.
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