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Rep. John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on China, discussed with CNBC's 'Squawk Box' a bipartisan congressional push for briefings from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The move follows Huang's admission on Sunday that he had an affair with a person alleged to be a Chinese intelligence operative.
Three House committee chairmen sent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang a letter requesting he appear for a closed-door briefing on November 18, 2026, following his admission of an affair with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, who has been reported to have ties to Chinese intelligence. The letter, signed by Reps. Brian Mast, John Moolenaar and Eric Crawford, cites concerns about Nvidia's security protocols against foreign espionage and the extent of any exposure of sensitive U.S. technology.
Rep. Ro Khanna, top Democrat on the House Select Committee on China, sent letters to Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and to DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI. He asked ODNI to assess US readiness for an AI system losing control, similar to an OpenAI agent incident involving Hugging Face, and to evaluate China's approach to catastrophic AI risk. He also asked the three Chinese companies for documentation on their pursuit of 'superintelligence,' recursive self-improvement, and any safety safeguards.