Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned to testify before Congress about affair with alleged Chinese spy

BREAKING: Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned to testify before Congress over his affair with an alleged Chinese spy, days after abruptly quitting one of the world's most valuable companies. $NVDA

Congress wants Jensen Huang under oath, and they're ready to subpoena him if he says no.

Senator Tim Scott has asked the former Nvidia chief to appear before the Senate Banking Committee on December the third, voluntarily for now, with a subpoena on the table if he declines. Three House committees want him even earlier, in a closed door interview on December the first. At issue is whether sensitive US technology was exposed through his relationship with Alice Huang, the Megaspeed executive suspected of working for Chinese intelligence, which Beijing denies.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been summoned too, over claims he stalled tighter export controls on AI chips to China. He says he'll appear proactively.

The Justice Department says it has reached no conclusion on espionage. The market has reached its own. Nvidia has lost five hundred and fifty billion dollars in value in five days.

This is Liu Yang, reporting for HIT.