US officials say a Chinese businesswoman close to Nvidia's Jensen Huang was a spy for Beijing

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The spy who shagged? US intelligence believes Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman who befriended Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while her company bought billions of dollars' worth of his AI chips, was spying for China's Ministry of State Security. Last spring, a memo that circulated among top Trump's policymakers said she had been recruited to learn about American AI chips and possibly influence the Nvidia chief to push for China to get the company's most advanced processors.

Jensen Huang is a close Trump ally and the Republican leaders of three House committees have now asked him to explain his dealings with his namesake in a closed-door briefing later this month.

US export rules keep Nvidia's best chips out of China, and he has spent years pushing Washington to let the company sell more of...

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