Follow-Up: With the November 11 Reply Deadline Near, Nvidia Has Yet to Confirm Whether Jensen Huang Will Attend the Closed Congressional Briefing

WASHINGTON — The deadline for Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to answer three U.S. House committee chairmen on whether he will attend a closed congressional briefing is November 11, and as of November 9 Nvidia has not publicly confirmed whether he will appear. In a joint letter dated November 4, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, Select Committee on the CCP Chairman John Moolenaar and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford asked Huang to appear on November 18 in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building for a joint closed-door briefing before the three committees, covering Nvidia's security protocols against foreign adversary espionage and his interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang.

The chairmen asked Huang to accept the date, or to propose an alternative date on a session day of the 119th Congress, by November 11. "Recent reports raise significant national security concerns regarding the PRC's access to sensitive U.S. technology and information," the letter said. "It is vital that Congress determines the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk." The letter is a request to appear, not a subpoena; the chairmen released its full text on November 5.

A Nvidia spokesperson has previously said that Huang talks with thousands of customer executives every year, that his interactions with Alice Huang are not unusual, and that the company is confident the U.S. government would let it know if it believed any person was a threat to American industry. Neither Alice Huang nor Megaspeed has been charged with any crime, and Huang himself faces no charges.

Before the letter from Congress, there was another letter. On November 8, Huang wrote to all Nvidia employees, and the company released it together with the board's statement.

In the letter, he apologized to his family and to all employees for being unfaithful to his wife. "I was unfaithful to my wife," he wrote. "My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did." He said he takes full responsibility for what he did and accepts the criticism that comes with it.

The letter also said that, regarding the national security concerns raised in news reports, Nvidia's board had initiated an independent investigation, which he supports and with which he will cooperate fully.

The letter was an apology and nothing more: it named no one, did not mention Alice Huang, and offered no characterization of his dealings with her. Huang's only public description of those dealings remains what he told Bloomberg on October 29: that his interactions with her were normal business contacts, nothing unusual.

The briefing is set for the day after Nvidia reports quarterly earnings on November 17. Earlier, Nvidia's board announced on November 8 an independent investigation into whether Huang had been the target of a foreign intelligence operation, and China's Foreign Ministry said on November 9 that the "Chinese spy" claim was a baseless smear.

Related: Three House Committee Chairs Ask Nvidia's Jensen Huang to Give a Closed-Door Briefing on November 18 on His Contacts With Alice Huang

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(Source: U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee)

Source: U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee

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