US memo tied woman close to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to China spy agency
What’s new: intelligence briefings said she was tasked with learning about AI chips and steering access to Nvidia technology in China.
A memo circulated among senior Trump administration policymakers last spring cited intelligence that a Chinese businesswoman with a close relationship to Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang was working for China’s Ministry of State Security. The woman, identified as Alice Huang, was recruited to gather information on Huang as Beijing sought insight into US artificial intelligence chips, people briefed on the intelligence said. The effort also aimed to potentially influence Nvidia to make its most advanced chips available to China, according to the memo described by those people. The case underscores how strategic AI semiconductors have become in the US-China rivalry.