THE CRUNCH
Three US House committee chairmen have summoned ex-Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang to Congress, citing what they call "clear national security concerns that need to be addressed immediately". The letters, from chairmen Mast, Moolenaar and Crawford, also call Nvidia's General Counsel Tim Teter and Under Secretary of Commerce Jeffrey Kessler, and cover AI chip smuggling, adversary military use of Nvidia products, and reports that Nvidia interfered with US export control investigations, including those involving MegaSpeed, a Singapore-registered company at the centre of a debate about China's access to high-performance GPUs.
Huang and Teter are requested for closed-door transcribed interviews on December 1 and December 2, 2026 respectively, before the House Committees on Foreign Affairs, the Select Committee on the CCP and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Both are threatened with subpoena if they do not comply. Kessler's invitation, by contrast, is framed as a more amicable hearing.
The tone marks a shift from an earlier letter sent before Huang's resignation from Nvidia, which merely asked him to propose an alternative date and focused on his relationship with Alice Huang, a suspected Chinese spy and former managing director of MegaSpeed.
Huang has also been called before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs for a public hearing on December 3, led by chairman senator Tim Scott, who is likewise requesting Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Lutnick, Kessler's boss, has reportedly accepted, amid scrutiny of whether he was too soft on Nvidia. Democrats preparing to take over Congress next year are also demanding a full accounting, and the BBC reports that Huang is willing to appear.
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