Commerce Dept’s Lutnick, Kessler under fire over inaction on Nvidia’s Megaspeed ‘spy’ fiasco

Source: New York Post

Howard Lutnick’s Commerce Department is facing major heat over its failure to crack down on Megaspeed – the Chinese AI firm at the center of the spy scandal that prompted Nvidia boss Jensen Huang’s shock resignation on Thursday. Huang was having an affair with alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, even as US officials investigated its role in smuggling Nvidia’s best AI chips to China. Last year, officials learned that Megaspeed had imported 50,000 more chips than what Nvidia officials found at its Singapore-based data centers.