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Nvidia CEO called in by lawmakers over ties to alleged Chinese spy
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been asked by three House Republican committee chairs to brief Congress behind closed doors about his reported ties to a woman accused of spying for China. Why it matters: The request escalates the scrutiny of the Nvidia CEO over his alleged relationship with Alice Huang,
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Both outlets center on the same allegation that a Chinese intelligence service recruited an AI-sector executive connected to Jensen Huang. The New York Times frames the story around U.S. intelligence concluding that Alice Huang was an asset of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security, while The Verge explicitly reports the claim as coming from the Times and adds that she was a Megaspeed executive. The Verge alone also says the alleged task involved gleaning information on American AI chips and possibly influencing Nvidia.
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