As more information about the ongoing situation at Nvidia unravels, U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed that the FBI is investigating CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with a suspected Chinese spy days after he admitted to the indiscretion. According to the Associated Press, the president said this during a briefing at the White House, with one reporter asking him about his knowledge of Huang’s issue before it became publicly known. The news comes amidst a separate bombshell report from Bloomberg, which claims that Nvidia intervened in a US government probe of suspected chip smuggling by Megaspeed, where Alice Huang was an executive.
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“Well, I’ve been hearing about it, and I’ve been reading about it over a period of time, but, uh, not too long ago,” Trump said. “We’ll look into, I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something, and I think he’ll be in good shape.” He also said, “I did speak to him today just to see if he’s feeling alright, how you’re doing. He said he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy.”
S. intelligence services suspected that Alice Huang , who previously held an executive position at Megaspeed, had ties to the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS), which is one of the country’s intelligence services, and that they told the President about it over a year ago.
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