Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the Windows Event in San Francisco on October 7, 2026.
Source: Microsoft
Lawmakers on both sides Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with a suspected Chinese spy. Some have questioned what the Trump administration knew about the matter.
“The more I learn about the unusual relationship between the Trump administration, Chinese spies, and AI billionaires, the more I am convinced that there is nothing this administration is doing that is not corrupt,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-Delaware) posted on X on Saturday. “Congress will investigate and get answers.”
Coons will become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee if his party takes control of the chamber in January.
Three House Republican committee chairs sent a letter to Hwang on Wednesday asking him to sit in on a private conference with lawmakers on Nov. 18, the day after the company is scheduled to report its third-quarter results.
“Recent reports raise serious national security concerns regarding (the People’s Republic of China’s) access to sensitive U.S. technology and information,” the Republican lawmakers said in a letter to Hwang.
The report cites Mr. Huang’s alleged relationship with Alice Huang, a Chinese national who is an executive at Singapore-based tech company MegaSpeed, whom the United States suspects of helping China evade a ban on the sale of artificial intelligence chips.
Last spring, Trump administration policymakers received an intelligence memo identifying Alice Fan as a recruit to China’s Ministry of State Security and revealing her ties to Nvidia’s CEO, the New York Times first reported.
Asked by the Times if Huang would appear before lawmakers to discuss the issue, NVIDIA spokesman John Rizzo declined to comment. “Our CEO has an excellent security team who will accompany him if necessary,” Rizzo said in a statement to the Times.
Rizzo said Huang’s interactions with the Nvidia CEO were consistent with meetings he had with Nvidia customers, the newspaper reported.
Separately, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, shared a Times article published Saturday that reported the Trump administration had authorized Chinese company Nu Matrix to assemble chips for Nvidia in Beijing. The Times found little evidence of any meaningful operations on the speeches listed, even though the Trump administration’s Commerce Department acknowledged the national security risks.
In a post about X, Cornyn criticized the report, calling it “outrageous.”
Congressman Seth Magaziner (DR.I.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, called on Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to testify before Congress alongside Mr. Huang.
Neither Nvidia nor the Department of Commerce immediately responded to CNBC’s requests for comment.
