Nvidia responds to report that Jensen Huang was targeted as a Chinese intelligence asset, saying chip transshipment allegations have been investigated and refuted

An Nvidia spokesperson, responding to a New York Times report, said that Alice Huang, a person close to Jensen Huang who was under surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies, was suspected of being a Chinese intelligence asset, but that customers cannot access Nvidia trade secrets or national security information. Nvidia said Megaspeed is only a regional cloud customer and that Huang's interactions with customers were not unusual. Nvidia also said that transshipment allegations that Megaspeed helped companies evade U.S. AI chip export controls were investigated and refuted last year.