Wire reporting: (AFP, via CNA)

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States would look very closely at a report that Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang had been targeted in a Chinese intelligence effort, CNA reported¹.

Speaking at his Florida residence, Trump said he had not known the specific allegation, called Huang brilliant and said he wanted to protect such people¹.

Asked whether he would keep Huang as an adviser, Trump said he would like to say yes unless contrary facts emerged¹.

The comments followed a New York Times report, summarized by the BBC, TechCrunch and ABC News, that U.S. intelligence officials believed a Chinese executive, Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, who had dealings with Jensen Huang, had been passing information to Beijing^2,3,4.

The Times account, as relayed by those outlets, linked Alice Huang to Singapore-based data-center firm Megaspeed and said she is not related to Jensen Huang^2,3,4.

Nvidia spokesman John Rizzo said Jensen Huang's interactions with Alice Huang were not unusual, that meetings with customers are part of a chief executive's job and that regional customers receive ordinary business information, not trade secrets or national-security material^2,3,4.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun called the report groundless speculation and an attempt to smear China^1,2,4.

The BBC reported Megaspeed told the Times it had hired outside lawyers and offered to cooperate with the U.S. government².

Nvidia has said it complies with export rules; Washington has restricted advanced chip sales to China, with some easing under Trump².

Independent confirmation of the intelligence assessment was not available in the articles reviewed, which rely on the Times' unnamed official sources^2,3.