House Republicans Summon Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Over Chinese Espionage Concerns

Three House Republican committee leaders have asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to attend a closed-door briefing on November 18. They want to talk about his relationship with an executive who was reportedly identified as a Chinese intelligence asset.

Lawmakers are asking questions about Huang's interactions with Alice Huang, an executive at a Singapore-based technology company named Megaspeed. The United States suspects that Megaspeed has helped China bypass rules on selling artificial intelligence chips.

U.S. intelligence officials learned last spring that Alice Huang was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security. A memo revealed that she had developed a close relationship with the Nvidia chief executive. President Donald Trump was briefed on these findings about a year ago, but the administration chose not to take action with that information.

The invitation letter was signed by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford. The lawmakers wrote that recent reports raise serious national security concerns about China gaining access to sensitive U.S. technology and information. They are asking about Nvidia's security rules against foreign spy threats.

Nvidia did not directly answer questions about whether Huang will attend the briefing. A company spokesperson stated that Jensen Huang's talks with Alice Huang were regular business meetings like the ones he holds with thousands of customer executives every year. The spokesperson added that regional cloud customers only receive standard business details instead of sensitive trade secrets or national security data. Nvidia also stated it is confident the government would let them know if any person posed a threat to American industry.

Lawmakers from both political parties are now calling for broader investigations. Democratic Senator Chris Coons, who is in line to lead the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January, posted on social media that Congress will investigate ties between the administration, Chinese spies, and artificial intelligence leaders. Democratic Representative Seth Magaziner called for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify alongside Huang.

Republican Senator John Cornyn also criticized a separate media report about chip assembly. That report stated the Trump administration approved a Chinese firm named New Matrix to assemble Nvidia chips in Beijing. The report noted little sign of actual work at the listed address, even though the Commerce Department cleared the firm for national security risks. Neither Nvidia nor the Commerce Department responded immediately to requests for comment on that report.

Summary

Lawmakers are demanding answers about national security risks following reports that Nvidia's chief executive had ties to an alleged Chinese intelligence asset and that the government approved a chip-assembly firm in Beijing. The upcoming congressional briefing and calls for investigations highlight growing bipartisan concern over how sensitive U.S. artificial intelligence technology is protected from foreign access.