House Chairmen Ask Jensen Huang for a Closed-Door Briefing

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — TheThe chairmen of three House committees have asked Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, to brief them behind closed doors on Nov. 18. In a one-page letter dated Wednesday and released Thursday, they asked about Nvidia’s safeguards against foreign espionage and about his “interactions with a publicly reported People’s Republic of China (PRC) intelligence asset: Megaspeed executive Alice Huang.”

The letter is signed by Brian Mast of Foreign Affairs, John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on China and Rick Crawford of the Intelligence Committee. It asks Mr. Huang to accept the date, or offer another, by Nov. 11.

The letter accuses neither Mr. Huang nor Nvidia of wrongdoing. “Recent reports raise significant national security concerns regarding the PRC’s access to sensitive U.S. technology and information,” the chairmen wrote. “It is vital that Congress determines the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk.”

The timing is awkward for the company. Nvidia reports its fiscal third-quarter results on Tuesday, Nov. 17, the day before the requested briefing. Its shares closed Thursday at $181.60, down 9.26 percent in a broad fall in chip stocks. NVDANasdaq178.67▼7.97−4.3%Nvidia · Monday’s session

The reports

The New York Times reported on Oct. 29 that U.S. officials suspected Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, of being a Chinese intelligence asset, according to accounts of its article by Taiwan News and IBTimes UK. She is a former senior executive of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company that buys Nvidia equipment and rents out computing capacity, IBTimes UK reported; she is not related to Mr. Huang.MegaspeedThe Commerce Department opened an investigation into Megaspeed in late 2024; the case moved to the Justice Department in 2026, IBTimes UK reported, citing the Times. Electronic surveillance placed her in contact with an American later identified as Mr. Huang, IBTimes UK reported, citing the Times and people familiar with the classified findings. Officials at first judged, by that account, that he was unaware of her alleged activity; some senior administration officials later questioned that, though it is unclear whether intelligence agencies formally changed their assessment, IBTimes UK reported. The reporting has not established that he knowingly shared sensitive information, or that Megaspeed illegally diverted Nvidia equipment to China, IBTimes UK noted.

Mr. Huang told Bloomberg News on Oct. 29 that Nvidia’s dealings with Megaspeed were “normal and not unusual.” “Our relationship, our interactions, have been related to Megaspeed, and it was all completely normal and not unusual,” he said, as quoted by Taiwan News. He said Nvidia had reviewed Megaspeed’s deployments of its chips and found no evidence that they had been illegally shipped to China, Taiwan News reported: “We’ve studied all their deployments of our GPUs and counted every one.” He also said the government had not told him of its suspicions, Taiwan News reported.

“Meetings with customers are part of a CEO’s job; Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year,” an Nvidia spokesman, John Rizzo, said, as quoted by IBTimes UK. Mr. Rizzo said Nvidia’s regional cloud customers received “ordinary business information,” not sensitive trade secrets or information relevant to national security, and that Nvidia had investigated and debunked chip-smuggling allegations involving Megaspeed, IBTimes UK reported. Megaspeed’s current leadership said it had hired outside lawyers to investigate and would cooperate with U.S. authorities, and a spokesman for China’s embassy in Washington called the allegations “groundless smears and slanders,” IBTimes UK reported.