Jensen Huang's has global implications.
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Huang → have → implications
The 63-year-old is the leading face of the artificial intelligence revolution with his black leather jacket and fluff of grey hair.
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old → lead → hair
He runs the company Nvidia, which produces highly coveted computer chips.
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which → run → chips
That's landed him on a late-night phone call with President Donald Trump, a promoter of the industry.
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That → land → industry
Also Read: How China gets the Nvidia chips it needs to develop AI
But Mr. Huang was also liaising with a Chinese businesswoman who has allegedly fed intelligence — as well as advanced chips — to China.
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who → read → China
The woman, Alice Huang, is a former executive at the Singapore-based cloud computing company Megaspeed.
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woman → base → company
It's a saga of personal betrayal, corporate espionage and high-tech development, and the fallout is spreading across Washington.
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fallout → spread → Washington
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened its own probe.
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Department → open → probe
Nvidia, one of the most valuable companies in the world, is conducting an internal review.
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Nvidia → conduct → review
Some expect the technology to reshape human civilisation by imbuing computers with the vast powers of creation and analysis, and Mr. Trump has repeated that “whoever wins AI, wins."
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wins → expect → AI
Nvidia is the backbone of America's plans for dominating the field.
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Nvidia → dominate → field
When asked about Mr. Huang's affair, Mr. Trump said this week that he had spoken to the tech executive as the scandal grew.
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scandal → ask → executive
I think he'll be in good shape," President Trump said, adding that "he said he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy.”
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person → think → question
As for when the President first learned about the concerns involving Ms. Alice Huang, Mr. Trump brushed off the question.
“They could have been mentioned," he said.
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"Certainly it didn't make much of an impact on me.”
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it → make → me
Authorities are investigating Megaspeed and Alice Huang
With the AI race between the U.S. and China often framed as a fierce and consequential rivalry, the Justice Department has persistently warned of the espionage threat posed by Beijing.
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Department → investigate → Beijing
That includes efforts to cultivate well-placed relationships in government and private industry, as well as to acquire sensitive technology, such as U.S.-developed AI chips.
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That → include → chips
Last year, Megaspeed faced scrutiny from the U.S. Commerce Department over allegations that it skirted U.S. export laws and routed a large number of advanced Nvidia chips to Chinese users.
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it → face → users
The company denied those allegations.
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company → deny → allegations
U.S. intelligence officials eventually concluded that Ms. Alice Huang had spied for China, according to The New York Times.
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The Commerce Department's probe was handed off to the Justice Department, and its National Security Division is investigating whether Megaspeed violated export control laws in an inquiry that will also include scrutiny of Ms. Alice Huang, according to a person familiar with the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing law enforcement probe.
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Megaspeed did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday (November 10), and The Associated Press was unable to reach Ms. Alice Huang.
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Jensen Huang has apologised to his company for the affair, saying he hurt his wife and their children, but he didn't address reports that Alice Huang was a suspected spy.
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Huang → apologise → reports
Nvidia's board said that it had “no reason to believe” that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised, and that Huang would remain in charge while cooperating with the investigation.
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Huang → say → investigation
Beijing has said the “Chinese spy allegation is unsubstantiated" and called it “nothing but smears.”
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allegation → say → smears
After their first dinner together at Mar-a-Lago in early 2025, Mr. Trump latched onto Mr. Huang as a tech titan positioned to deliver on the President's own promises of an economic renaissance.
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Trump → latch → renaissance
The computer chips produced by Nvidia would essentially turn data centres into factories that made raw intelligence, which could then be applied across the economy to produce cars, new pharmaceutical drugs, advanced weapons and seemingly unparalleled wealth.
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Mr. Trump would regularly phone Mr. Huang to discuss this future.
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Trump → phone → future
“From the moment that I met him, the only thing that he's ever talked to me about is creating more jobs, re-industrialising the United States, and protecting national security,” Mr. Huang told AP in an interview this summer.
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Huang → meet → interview
"He knows that if America is wealthy, we have a lot of tax revenues.
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we → know → revenues
We can fund the military, we can fund our economy, we can fund our communities, create more jobs.”
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we → fund → jobs
Mr. Trump saw his political fortunes — and that of the country — in Mr. Huang's Nvidia.
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Trump → see → Nvidia
Mr. Huang joined Mr. Trump on Air Force One for a state visit to Beijing earlier this year.
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Huang → join → Beijing
Just last month, Mr. Trump awarded Mr. Huang a National Medal of Science.
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Trump → award → Science
The President called him “a man whose determination laid the foundations for the explosion of super intelligence and put America at the front of the race, an amazing man, gotten to know him so well.”
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determination → call → him
Nvidia also donated $25 million to help fund the construction of Mr. Trump's White House ballroom.
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Nvidia → donate → ballroom
Multiple estimates suggest that more than half of the stock market gains during President Trump's second term came from the growth of the AI industry and the construction of data centres.
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half → suggest → centres
Without that growth, consumer spending could slump, delivering another economic setback to a President who has already failed to deliver on his campaign promise of stopping inflation.
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Rising prices were among the reasons that voters delivered a harsh rebuke to Republicans in last week's midterm elections, returning control of Congress to the Democrats.
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voters → rise → Democrats
Nvidia CEO pushed to sell some chips to China, faces congressional scrutiny
While Mr. Huang said his interests were in helping America succeed, he also expressed a strong view that Nvidia should be able to sell some of its less advanced chips, such as the H200, to China.
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