House GOP Chairs Ask Nvidia's Jensen Huang to Brief Congress on Nov. 18 Over Reported Ties to Alleged Chinese Asset

Three House Republican committee chairs have asked NVDA CEO Jensen Huang to appear at an in-person, closed-door joint briefing on Nov. 18 about his relationship with a tech executive reportedly identified as a Chinese intelligence asset. The letter, signed by Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-Fla.), Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), was dated Wednesday and released Thursday. "Recent reports raise significant national security concerns regarding the PRC's access to sensitive U.S. technology and information," the lawmakers wrote.

The request seeks information on Huang's interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang and on Nvidia's security protocols against foreign espionage. The letter does not name the reports it relies on, but it follows a New York Times report last week that U.S. intelligence had found Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen, was funneling information to Beijing and had developed a close relationship with the Nvidia CEO. The allegations have not been tested publicly, and the lawmakers framed their request as an invitation, not a subpoena.

Nvidia did not say whether Huang would attend. In a statement mirroring its earlier response to the Times, the company said its regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information, not sensitive trade secrets, and that meetings with customers are part of a CEO's job, adding that it was confident the U.S. government would let it know if any person posed a threat.

The timing puts the issue next to Nvidia's biggest scheduled event of the quarter: the briefing date is the day after the company reports third-quarter results on Nov. 17. Investors will watch whether Huang agrees to appear, whether the committees escalate beyond a voluntary briefing, and whether the scrutiny spills into the export-control debate around Nvidia's China-linked sales.