House Chairs Seek Jensen Huang Briefing on China Concerns

Three Republican House committee chairs have asked Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to attend a closed-door briefing on November 18 about his interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang and the company’s safeguards against foreign espionage. Their November 4 letter asks him to confirm the date or propose an alternative by November 11. The request came from Brian Mast, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on China; and Rick Crawford, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The letter seeks information about Jensen Huang’s contacts with Alice Huang and Nvidia’s protections against foreign adversaries accessing sensitive information. The request is not a subpoena and does not establish that Jensen Huang knowingly assisted espionage. The lawmakers’ letter does not include underlying intelligence evidence. The briefing has been requested, but the sources do not report whether Huang has accepted the proposed date. The inquiry follows reporting that U.S. intelligence officials suspected Alice Huang of passing information to Beijing. That account cited people briefed on surveillance and other sources....