MSS Recruited Alice Huang to Spy on Jensen Huang — SkimNews
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- MSS recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to gather information about American AI chips and seek influence over making Nvidia’s most advanced chips available to China, according to a New York Times report.
- Megaspeed is a customer of Nvidia, while Alice Huang has relationships with executives at the highest levels of the AI-chip industry, including leaders at Gigabyte.
- Alice Huang and Jensen Huang have a close relationship, according to the New York Times, although the two are not related.
- New York Times reporting last week described Jensen Huang as the target of a “Chinese spy plot”; the recruitment of Alice Huang by MSS was the new detail.
- Trump was briefed last year about the relationship between Alice Huang and Jensen Huang but took no action, despite being friendly with Huang.
- Jensen Huang was asked yesterday by three House committees to appear for a joint, closed-door briefing about his interactions with Alice Huang.
Why it matters: For Nvidia, the alleged MSS operation sought U.S. AI-chip intelligence and influence over making its most advanced chips available to China. Three House committees have requested a closed-door Jensen Huang briefing; Trump, however, was briefed last year about Huang’s close relationship with Alice Huang and took no action.
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