Nvidia denies sharing secrets after reported Chinese spy assessment

A Japanese news brief pairs U.S. intelligence allegations reported by The New York Times with the chipmaker's response that the exchanges were routine customer business.

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Nvidia says its dealings with a Chinese woman described as close to chief executive Jensen Huang were ordinary customer interactions, and that it provided no confidential or national-security information.

Japan's Nippon Television News reports that response in a brief account of an October 29 New York Times investigation. Citing people familiar with the matter, the newspaper reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed the woman as a Chinese spy.

According to the television report, she was an executive at a Singapore-based data-center company and had been investigated over suspected illicit supplies of Nvidia's AI chips. The report describes her as having a close relationship with Huang, without specifying its nature.

The broadcaster also relays the newspaper's account that President Donald Trump received the intelligence findings about a year earlier but declined to act because of concerns about the consequences for semiconductor sales and trade relations.

Nvidia's response disputes the implication that sensitive information passed through the contact: its spokesperson described the exchanges as normal dealings with a customer and said neither confidential material nor information relating to national security had been supplied.

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