FBI probing Nvidia boss' alleged affair with China spy, Donald Trump says
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U.S. President Donald Trump said the FBI is opening an investigation into the alleged sex romp between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and a Chinese spy, BBC reported.
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Trump said that he spoke with Huang after reports surfaced that the U.S. believes Chinese intelligence targeted him.
“I asked him that question, ‘Did you have any idea she was a spy?’ He said, ‘I had no idea she was a spy,’ and I really believe him,” Trump told reporters.
China denied claims that it targeted Huang. Its Foreign Ministry said the allegations are “entirely groundless, speculative and intended to smear and malign China.”
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Nvidia commissioned an independent investigation into the affair involving suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang, who according to a U.S. report was allegedly recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) to get classified company information. Nvidia’s report said the company had no reason to believe its secrets or national security were compromised, but the FBI said it was looking into the affair without giving more details.
Nvidia is among the largest companies in the world, the globe’s leading chipmaker and artificial intelligence firm and is worth $4.31 trillion. The American firm is a central player in the AI development race between the U.S. and China. Washington has historically treated the company’s exports to China as a matter of national security. The Joe Biden administration limited the company to selling lower-end, less-sophisticated microchips to China than the ones it sells to the U.S., but Jensen Huang had pushed Trump to ease those restrictions.
Alice Huang was the managing director of Singaporean firm Megaspeed, which according to the New York Times bought billions of microchips from Nvidia that allegedly fell into Beijing’s hands.
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Trump: Jensen’s OK
Trump told reporters on Monday that he thought Jensen Huang was an “honorable guy and I feel very confident that he will be in good shape.
“I did speak to him today just to see if he’s feeling alright, how you doing and I asked him about that and he said he absolutely had no idea that the person in question was a spy,” Trump said, adding Chinese President Xi Jinping would likely inquire about it when they next meet.
Huang has since apologized for his behaviour and has been called to a joint closed-door briefing involving several congressional committees next week.
— With files from Brad Hunter.