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Democrats demand answers from Commerce over Nvidia chip approvals
Top Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee are demanding that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explain the administration’s Nvidia chip approvals, including approvals for companies with concerning ties to China. Axios reports that Lutnick received a highly classified memo warning about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence officials believe is a Chinese intelligence agent. The report says the warning raises questions about how Commerce weighed security risks. The department cleared around 10 Chinese companies to buy Nvidia H200 chips on May 14, but some approvals predated the warning. It remains unclear how those approvals translated into sales.
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Key Actors
- Democratic Party
- Department of Government Efficiency
- Donald Trump
- Elizabeth Warren
- Elon Musk
- Greg Casar
- Jensen Huang
- Lachlan Murdoch
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Nvidia
- United States Department of Commerce
- United States House of Representatives
- United States Senate
- Vladimir Putin