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Is a close contact of Nvidia's CEO really a Chinese agent?
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According to the New York Times, US officials in Washington concluded that Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, a data center firm in Singapore, was passing information to Beijing. She built a close relationship with Jensen Huang, but the paper says they have no family relation. The paper cites anonymous sources and has not said what she passed on.
Washington, Singapore, and Beijing
Commercial records the paper cites show a Malaysia-linked company tied to Megaspeed bought at least 4800 million dollars of advanced AI equipment with Nvidia technology over the period those records cover. US authorities suspect some of those chips reached China illegally.
$4,800m
Beijing calls the report baseless, and Nvidia calls the contacts routine. Senator Elizabeth Warren put it bluntly: NVIDIA's Jensen Huang and NVIDIA's board owe Congress answers.
“NVIDIA's Jensen Huang and NVIDIA's board owe Congress answers.”
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- Nasz DziennikChina/ MFA: US media reports about spying on Nvidia boss are baseless
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