Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking at a Windows event on October 7, 2026 in San Francisco.
Source: Microsoft
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are increasing calls for investigations into reports of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with suspected Chinese spy. Some also question what the Trump administration knew about it.
“The more I learn about the insane relationship between the Trump administration, Chinese spies and AI billionaires, the more I am convinced that there is nothing this administration does that is not corrupt,” Sen. Chris Coons, D-D., said Saturday on X. “Congress will investigate and get answers.”
Coons is set to chair the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when his party takes control of the chamber in January.
Three House Republican committee chairmen sent a letter to Huang on Wednesday asking him to participate in a closed-door briefing with lawmakers on Nov. 18, a day after the company is scheduled to report third-quarter results.
“Recent reports raise significant national security concerns regarding (the People’s Republic of China’s) access to sensitive U.S. technology and information,” Republican lawmakers wrote in a letter to Huang.
The reports reference Huang’s alleged relationship with Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen and executive of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based technology company that the United States suspects of helping China circumvent bans on the sale of artificial intelligence chips.
Trump administration policymakers received a memo last spring containing intelligence identifying Alice Huang as having been recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security and revealing her relationship with Nvidia’s chief executive, The New York Times first reported Friday.
When asked by the Times whether Huang would appear before lawmakers to discuss the matter, Nvidia spokesman John Rizzo declined to comment. “Our CEO has an exceptional security team that supports him when needed,” Mr. Rizzo said in a statement to The Times.
Rizzo said the Nvidia CEO’s interactions with Ms. Huang were consistent with meetings he had with one of Nvidia’s customers, the Times reported.
Separately, Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn shared a Times article published Saturday reporting that the Trump administration had approved Chinese company New Matrix to assemble chips for Nvidia in Beijing. The Times found little evidence of significant operations at the listed address, although Trump’s Commerce Department authorized it for national security risks.
Cornyn called the report “scandalous” in his post on X.
Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-R.I., who serves on the House Committee on Homeland Security, called on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify before Congress alongside Huang.
Neither Nvidia nor the Commerce Department immediately responded to CNBC’s request for comment.
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