GOP leaders of three House committees ask Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on his ties with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, reported to be a Chinese asset
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Congress pulling Nvidia’s CEO into a closed-door briefing on alleged ties to a suspected Chinese asset shows how quickly AI supply-chain questions become national security issues. Any company with critical compute, model, or tooling leverage should be mapping political exposure and tightening counterpart due diligence now.
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