Three Republican House committee chairs have asked Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang to give a joint, closed-door briefing on the company’s safeguards against foreign espionage and his interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whom the lawmakers describe as a publicly reported Chinese intelligence asset.
Photo: Joyce N. Boghosian / The White House (public domain; cropped). Source. Huang at the July 23, 2025 White House AI Summit.
The November 4 letter, released by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on November 5, requests an appearance on November 18. It asks Huang to accept that date or propose another congressional session day by November 11.
A request for a briefing, not a subpoena
The signatories are Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford. They wrote that reports about access to sensitive U.S. technology raised national-security concerns and that their committees wanted to determine the extent of any risk.
The published document is a request for an appearance, not a subpoena. It does not establish that Huang has accepted, that the briefing has taken place or that Nvidia or either executive has committed wrongdoing.
Nvidia says customer meetings do not share sensitive information
Nvidia did not confirm whether Huang would attend when asked by CNBC. Instead, a spokesperson said regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information, “not sensitive NVIDIA trade secrets” and “zero information relevant to national security.”
“Meetings with customers are part of a CEO’s job; Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year,” the spokesperson told CNBC. The company said it was confident the U.S. government would notify it if officials believed someone posed a threat to American industry.
Reported intelligence ties remain an attributed allegation
The letter describes Alice Huang as a Megaspeed executive and a publicly reported intelligence asset. CNBC said the request followed New York Times reporting that U.S. intelligence had identified her as passing information to Beijing and that she had developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang. Those are reported intelligence claims, not findings established by the committees’ letter or independently verified here.
Nvidia’s account is that its chief executive’s interactions were ordinary customer meetings. The public letter does not identify a specific trade secret disclosed, and it does not announce charges or an adjudicated finding against the company. CNBC reported that Megaspeed did not immediately respond to its request for comment.
The immediate development is congressional scrutiny and a requested briefing. Attendance and the outcome of the committees’ inquiry remain unconfirmed. This report does not attribute a stock-market move to the letter.
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