Jensen Huang, the CEO of the American technology and chip manufacturer Nvidia, had a close relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who was a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security, according to The New York Times citing a memo circulated last spring among top policymakers in the Trump Administration.
Along with the memo, U.S. intelligence officials believe that the businesswoman, Alice Huang, was recruited to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, as part of a drive by Beijing’s top spy agency to learn more about American A.I. chips and potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China.