Three House Republican chairs ask Nvidia's Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on Megaspeed executive

The Republican chairs of three House committees have asked Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to brief them behind closed doors about his dealings with an executive of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data centre company and Nvidia customer. The letter was announced on 5 November by John Moolenaar, who chairs the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Brian Mast of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Rick Crawford of the Intelligence Committee.

What the lawmakers are asking

According to the committees' press releases, the chairs want Huang to attend a joint, closed-door session on 18 November and to accept that date or offer an alternative by 11 November. They want to discuss two subjects: his interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whom they describe as a "publicly reported Chinese intelligence asset", and Nvidia's security measures against espionage by foreign adversaries. The chairs say recent reports raise serious national security concerns about China's access to sensitive US technology, and that such access is central to their committees' investigations in this Congress. The press releases do not specify which reports they rely on, and they do not mention export controls directly.

The reporting behind the request

The Hill links the letter to a New York Times report published on 29 October. That report said US intelligence agencies had found that Alice Huang developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang and was passing information to Beijing. The underlying intelligence has not been made public, and none of the coverage reviewed here establishes that Jensen Huang did anything wrong. Tech Times notes that Megaspeed has separately faced scrutiny from US authorities over suspicions that it helped customers in China obtain Nvidia chips covered by export restrictions, which remain suspicions rather than findings.

Nvidia's position

Nvidia has played down the contacts. A spokesperson told The Hill that Megaspeed was a regional customer, that meeting customers is part of a chief executive's job and that Huang speaks with thousands of customer executives each year. The company added that regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information and nothing relevant to national security, and that it would expect the US government to warn it about any person seen as a threat. According to Tech Times, the company's statements did not directly address the lawmakers' letter, so it is not yet known whether Huang will attend.

The request adds to congressional pressure on Nvidia over its business with Chinese and China-linked customers at a time when sales of advanced AI chips remain a sensitive issue in US-China relations.