Jensen Huang and the AI spies.

The New York Times reports that US intelligence officials believe an executive at one of Nvidia’s data center customers, Megaspeed, may be a “Chinese intelligence asset,” and has a “close relationship” with Nvidia CEO Huang. Details are sparse in the article, especially on how close that relationship was — Nvidia says she’s just one of “thousands of customer executives” Huang meets every year.

Jensen Huang and the AI spies.

TL;DR

  • US intelligence officials suspect a Chinese intelligence asset may be linked to Nvidia.
  • The suspected asset is an executive at Megaspeed, a data center customer of Nvidia.
  • This executive allegedly has a "close relationship" with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
  • Nvidia stated that Huang meets with thousands of customer executives each year.
  • Details regarding the closeness of the relationship are sparse in the report.