Three House committee chairs have asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to give a closed-door briefing on November 18 about his interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whom The New York Times reported U.S. intelligence described as a Chinese intelligence asset. Nvidia says customer meetings involve ordinary business information, not sensitive secrets.
They invited him for November 18 and asked him to accept that date or propose an alternative by November 11.
A Nvidia spokesperson said regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information, not sensitive Nvidia trade secrets.
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