Three House Republican committee chairs asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to appear for a closed-door briefing on his reported relationship with a tech executive identified in news accounts as a Chinese intelligence asset, CNBC reported Thursday². Reuters published a document-based account of the same request¹.

The letter, dated Wednesday and unveiled Thursday, was signed by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast of Florida, Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar of Michigan, and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford of Arkansas, CNBC reported². The chairs invited Huang to an in-person joint briefing on Nov. 18, the day after Nvidia is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings².

They wrote that recent reports raise national security concerns about the People's Republic of China's access to sensitive U.S. technology and information, according to CNBC². They sought information on Huang's interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang and on Nvidia's security protocols against foreign adversary espionage². CNBC said the letter did not name the reports it referred to².

CNBC said The New York Times reported last week that U.S. intelligence found Alice Huang, described as a Chinese citizen determined to be funneling information to Beijing, had developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang². CNBC said the Times reported President Donald Trump was briefed about a year ago on those findings and chose not to act, citing people briefed on the surveillance and other sources².

Nvidia did not directly answer CNBC on whether Huang would attend the proposed briefing². A company spokesperson said regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information, not sensitive Nvidia trade secrets, and no information relevant to national security². "Meetings with customers are part of a CEO's job; Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year," the spokesperson said, according to CNBC².

CNBC said a spokeswoman for Mast did not immediately provide more information and that an email to Megaspeed seeking comment was not immediately returned². The committee leaders said China's access to sensitive U.S. technology is core to their investigative work this Congress and that they need to determine whether U.S. national security has been placed at risk².

This desk could not retrieve the full Reuters article behind a 403 error, so Reuters-specific details beyond its headline and publication time are not independently confirmed here¹.