Home and Senate Republican leaders are demanding solutions from former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese language spy and whether or not that relationship could have influenced enterprise dealings involving Nvidia and China.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott, a Republican, despatched letters to each Huang and Lutnick to publicly testify in entrance of the committee. It comes after Huang resigned as CEO of Nvidia earlier this week after reviews that he had an affair with Alice Huang, a Chinese language nationwide and tech govt at Megaspeed who’s accused of being a Chinese language spy. Jensen Huang admitted to an affair, however he did not say with whom.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang talks with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, July 29, 2026, in Washington.
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Lawmakers have raised concerns concerning the nationwide safety implications of Huang’s reported relationship on condition that he ran the world’s largest pc chip producer.
“Secretary Lutnick has proactively agreed to look voluntarily earlier than the Banking Committee to deal with their questions,” mentioned Commerce Division spokesperson Kristen Eichamer.
It is not but clear when Lutnick will seem earlier than the committee.
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick speaks throughout an announcement within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, September 30, 2026 in Washington.
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The committee is requesting Huang to look on Dec. 3 with Chairman Scott threatening to subpoena Huang if he fails to voluntarily seem in entrance of the committee.
In the meantime, prime Home Republicans have requested Huang to return in for a closed-door transcribed interview on Dec. 1 as the 2 sides have been in lively negotiations.
Home Overseas Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford and Choose Committee on Chairman John Moolenaar requested a written affirmation of Huang’s acceptance by 8 p.m. Friday, beneath risk of subpoena.
“Failure to cooperate with this request will end result within the Home Overseas Affairs Committee issuing a subpoena to compel your testimony in a format of the committee’s selecting. Different committees additionally reserve the appropriate to individually concern subpoenas to compel your testimony,” Thursday’s letter to Huang states.
Mast, Crawford and Moolenaar wrote in an announcement that as “reviews proceed to return to gentle relating to Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, and Megaspeed, there are clear nationwide safety issues that must be addressed instantly.”
The three chairmen additionally requested Nvidia’s Common Counsel Tim Teter to appear for a closed-door transcribed interview on Dec. 2 “relating to AI chip smuggling, adversary army use of NVIDIA merchandise, and up to date public reporters relating to NVIDIA’s interference in U.S. export management insurance policies and investigations, together with these involving Megaspeed.” Republicans requested a written affirmation of Teter’s acceptance by 8 p.m. Friday, saying they may concern a subpoena if they don’t.
The Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. November 12, 2026.
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The requests for each males to testify come amid rising concern over potential Chinese language espionage and whether or not any protocols on the Commerce Division had been damaged of their oversight of Nvidia’s chip exports to China.
Lutnick is being accused of delaying inserting Megaspeed, a buyer of Nvidia and Alice Huang’s employer, on an inventory of firms that pose nationwide safety issues, whilst U.S. intelligence indicated that Megaspeed could have been diverting bought Nvidia chips to China, one thing the corporate denies.
“Effectively, I wish to wait and see if the allegations are true and what he has to say about it. However I might be involved. You already know, the rumors are very regarding. The reporting may be very regarding about it,” Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer advised reporters on Thursday.
Republican Sen. John Curtis mentioned “we want solutions and accountability” from Huang and Lutnick “instantly.”
“Jensen Huang’s gross negligence uncovered cracks in our nationwide safety, however Secretary Lutnick’s reported stalling on export controls raises the query of whether or not the Commerce Division is performing in one of the best pursuits of the American individuals,” Curtis wrote in a social media submit.
Home Republicans are in search of testimony on Dec. 3 from Jeff Kessler, the beneath Secretary of Commerce for Business and Safety “for a listening to on chip smuggling, adversary use of superior AI chips, reported interference by personal firms into export management coverage and enforcement investigations, and Megaspeed.”
