Nvidia, Chinese Espionage, and the AI Race: Four Foreign Policy Issues to Watch

Nvidia announced an internal probe after reports that its chief executive, Jensen Huang, had been targeted by a Chinese intelligence operation. The allegations involve an executive of Singapore‑based Megaspeed, a data‑center company. The episode has sparked a flurry of congressional inquiries, executive‑level discussions, and renewed scrutiny of U.S. export controls that govern the world’s most advanced artificial‑intelligence (AI) hardware.