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Reports about Nvidia chief Jensen Huang have brought a company investigation, an apology from Huang and a denial from China. The allegations also touch on questions about access to advanced AI chips, not just the executive’s private life.

The London Evening Standard reports that US intelligence officials suspect Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang of involvement in an espionage operation, and says she has links to Nvidia customer Megaspeed International, which has faced allegations of trying to divert US chips to China. The paper says Jensen Huang admitted an affair and apologised to his family and colleagues. These are reported claims, not established findings of espionage or improper influence. Nvidia says its board has opened an independent investigation and has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised. China called the spying claims baseless, the paper reports. The allegations, the company’s response and the question of what evidence emerges now deserve to be kept in separate boxes, however untidy the headlines make that.

Discuss: Should Nvidia publish the investigation’s findings if it clears Huang, or would that risk exposing sensitive information without resolving the wider chip-security questions?

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