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"Congress will investigate": Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang faces probe over alleged Chinese spy ties
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is facing increasing congressional scrutiny after multiple reports Friday night suggested he had a romantic relationship with a purported Chinese spy. Why it matters: Huang is arguably the world's most powerful CEO, the man who runs one of the world's largest companies and wh
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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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