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The New York Times recently published an exclusive report claiming that Jensen Huang, CEO of the globally renowned chipmaker NVIDIA, had “close ties” with a woman whom the U.S. government identified as a Chinese intelligence operative.
The report said that the woman, Huang Le, had previously been an executive at a technology company in Singapore.
The U.S. government had previously suspected that the company was illegally transferring advanced artificial-intelligence chips to China and had kept her under surveillance for an extended period.
During the surveillance, U.S. authorities discovered that she had attended parties and business dinners on multiple occasions where NVIDIA’s CEO was present. The two had appeared together in photographs, and she had also exaggerated their relationship to investors.
U.S. authorities therefore suspected that she might have been trying to use the relationship to obtain NVIDIA’s internal business and technological secrets.
In response to the report, NVIDIA and Jensen Huang himself quickly issued clarifications.
He said that, as the company’s top executive, meeting with customers and partners was a completely normal part of business.
All of his contact with the woman was entirely routine, with nothing unusual about it, and she could absolutely not have accessed NVIDIA’s core secrets or technology.
NVIDIA also confirmed that the woman had since left the company involved.
A spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs subsequently responded to the report, stating clearly that its claims were entirely speculative and amounted to nothing more than an attempt to smear China.
As global competition in artificial intelligence continues to intensify, chip giant NVIDIA has found itself at the center of attention, and its leader’s routine business dealings have consequently come under extremely strict political scrutiny.