Trump backs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang after report of Chinese spy plot

The president called Huang brilliant and said the US is looking very closely at claims that a Chinese executive passed information to Beijing President Donald Trump came to the defense of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Saturday, calling him “brilliant.” The praise followed a report that Huang had been the target of a Chinese espionage effort. Trump also said the United States was examining the matter “very closely.” The story began with The New York Times, which reported on Thursday that US intelligence officials had reached a troubling conclusion. They found that a Chinese executive connected to a Singapore-based data center company had been sending information to Beijing. That executive had interacted with Huang.

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