Republican committee leaders Brian Mast, John Moolenaar, and Rick Crawford have requested Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to appear for a closed-door briefing on November 18, 2026. The summons follows reporting that U.S. intelligence identified alleged Chinese spy ties involving an executive at Singapore-based customer Megaspeed. Nvidia maintains that interactions were routine business, noting internal audits found no illegal chip diversions into China.
GOP leaders request briefing from Jensen Huang
- ▪House G.O.P. leaders requested that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang address his security protocols and his interactions with a Megaspeed executive under U.S. government surveillance for alleged Chinese espionage
- ▪House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, House China Select Committee Chairman John Moolenaar, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Crawford wrote to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang requesting a closed-door briefing on November 18, 2026
Alleged Chinese spy operation involving Megaspeed
- ▪U.S. intelligence reports indicated that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was targeted in a Chinese spy operation involving Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based cloud company Megaspeed
- ▪U.S. officials investigated Megaspeed over suspicions that the Singapore-based firm helped China access advanced Nvidia artificial intelligence processors subject to U.S. export controls
- ▪The Chinese government previously characterized allegations that it engaged in a spying operation targeting Nvidia as groundless speculation
Nvidia response and internal investigation
- ▪Nvidia stated that CEO Jensen Huang travels with a dedicated security team and noted the company regularly receives updates from Washington regarding entities of concern
- ▪Nvidia stated that CEO Jensen Huang interacts with thousands of customer executives annually and that regional cloud customers receive no sensitive trade secrets or national security information
- ▪Nvidia conducted unannounced on-site audits at Megaspeed's Singapore facilities and reported finding no evidence that its graphics processing units were illegally diverted into China
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