'Nvidia chief seen as target of China spy plot'

File photo: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang A top executive at a Singapore-based data centre company, Megaspeed, was under scrutiny for possibly steering advanced Nvidia AI chips to China, according to a report in New York Times. American officials had concluded that she was a Chinese intelligence asset, sending information to Beijing.The report claims that surveillance of the executive, Alice Huang or Huang Le, a Chinese citizen, revealed that she had developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang, Nvidia's chief executive.In a startling revelation, the report says President Trump was briefed about the intelligence findings but chose not to do anything. He has been wary of disrupting Nvidia's chip sales, which are helping to drive the economy and the stock market, and of further complicating the trading relationship with China.Washington has been working to deny China the technology needed to match or surpass US in AI. The discovery that Beijing was getting reports from someone with direct access to Jensen Huang, who is also an ally of President Trump, had set off alarm bells ringing at White House.Nvidia's chief executive has successfully lobbied the administration during Trump's secon...