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US officials suspect Nvidia CEO may have known about China spy's activities: Report

By · Via Times of India · Published by Everything Blog

In short

Alice Huang of Megaspeed reportedly transmitted intelligence to Beijing while her firm continued acquiring Nvidia hardware throughout this year. Jensen Huang pushed the Trump administration to loosen export rules, offering the U.S. government a 25 percent stake in select permitted transactions alongside a $500 billion pledge for domestic manufacturing. Nvidia dismissed allegations of illicit technology transfers, stating that Megaspeed receives only standard commercial information. The White House, CIA, and National Security Agency declined to comment on the surveillance operations.

Key points

  • Megaspeed remains under intense scrutiny for allegedly funneling cutting-edge artificial…: Megaspeed remains under intense scrutiny for allegedly funneling cutting-edge artificial intelligence computing power and chips to Chinese entities.
  • Jensen Huang lobbied the Trump administration directly, proposing a 25 percent government…: Jensen Huang lobbied the Trump administration directly, proposing a 25 percent government stake in certain permitted chip sales.
  • Nvidia denied all allegations of wrongdoing, asserting that Megaspeed never received trad…: Nvidia denied all allegations of wrongdoing, asserting that Megaspeed never received trade secrets or sensitive national security information.

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A top executive at a Singapore-based data centre company, Megaspeed, was under scrutiny for possibly steering advanced Nvidia AI chips to China, according to a report in New York Times. American officials had concluded that she was a Chinese intelligence asset, sending information to Beijing.

The report claims that surveillance of the executive, Alice Huang or Huang Le, a Chinese citizen, revealed that she had developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive.

In a startling revelation, the report says President Trump was briefed about the intelligence findings but chose not to do anything. He has been wary of disrupting Nvidia's chip sales, which are helping to drive the economy and the stock market, and of further complicating the trading relationship with China.

Washington has been working to deny China the technology needed to match or surpass US in AI. The discovery that Beijing was getting reports from someone with direct access to Jensen Huang, who is also an ally of President Trump, had set off alarm bells ringing at White House.

Nvidia's chief executive has successfully lobbied…

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