Trump backs Nvidia's Jensen Huang after spy plot report

The report, published by The New York Times on Thursday, said US intelligence officials had concluded that a Chinese executive linked to a Singapore-based data center company—someone who had interacted with Huang—was funneling information to Beijing. Trump's comments came two days later, at his Florida residence, where he told reporters he had not known about 'the specific thing' but wanted to protect 'our brilliant people.'

Huang's position is unusual because he has advised Trump on artificial intelligence policy and was among the tech CEOs who joined the US leader on his visit to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in May. The Taiwan-born businessman has also advocated for the use of his company's chips in China, where Beijing has been accelerating development of its own semiconductors. Trump said he would like to keep Huang as an advisor 'unless we find out something to the contrary,' while describing the matter as 'a very complex issue.'