Madison Huang canceled her planned Seoul visit for NVIDIA’s Nov. 9-10 event; the board inquiry into reports involving CEO Jensen Huang has no confirmed link to her decision.
SBS reported that Huang, a senior NVIDIA director and daughter of CEO Jensen Huang, had planned to attend the event. NVIDIA’s event calendar lists AI Day Seoul for Nov. 9-10. SBS also said a planned Nov. 8 meeting between Huang and South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister and Science and ICT Minister Bae Gyung-hoon did not take place. The broadcaster cited unavoidable circumstances for the canceled visit.
The New York Times reported, based on accounts from people briefed on U.S. intelligence, that Alice Huang, an executive associated with Singapore-based Megaspeed, had been assessed as collecting information for Beijing and had become close to Jensen Huang. Reuters said it could not independently verify the allegations. The United States has restricted exports of advanced AI chips to China since 2022, Reuters reported.
On Nov. 8, NVIDIA’s board announced an independent inquiry into reports that Jensen Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence effort. Independent directors will oversee it with help from outside counsel, and Huang will cooperate, the board said. The board said it had “no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised,” while the inquiry would examine all available information.
In a Nov. 4 letter, House committee chairmen Brian Mast, John Moolenaar and Rick Crawford requested a closed-door briefing with Jensen Huang on Nov. 18. They asked him to accept the date or suggest another by Nov. 11. The letter described Alice Huang as a “publicly reported” Chinese intelligence asset; that wording was the chairmen’s characterization, not a public intelligence finding in the letter. EconoTimes previously covered the chairmen’s request for a briefing.
