China denies spying on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, calls it 'groundless speculation'
According to the New York Times, US intelligence concluded that an executive tied to a Singapore data center company passed information to Beijing.
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China on Friday (30) denied accusations that it spied on Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia. Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun called the account groundless speculation and an attempt to smear the country, g1 reported, based on France Presse.
The accusation came from a New York Times report, according to which US intelligence officials concluded that a Chinese executive tied to the Singapore data center company Megaspeed passed information to Beijing. The newspaper says that she, Alice Huang, established a close relationship with the CEO, although the two are not related.
According to the NYT, there were suspicions that Megaspeed was sending Nvidia chips to China, and President Donald Trump was reportedly briefed on the conclusions about a year ago, without taking action.
Nvidia responded that Megaspeed is a regional customer like others and that Huang's interactions with the executive are not unusual. According to the company, suspicions of chip smuggling were investigated and dismissed last year.
The case is part of the technology dispute between Beijing and Washington, which restricts exports to China of advanced Nvidia chips, used in training and running AI models. The data center boom helped make the company the most valuable in the world.