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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick agreed to testify before a Senate committee about Nvidia.A Microsoft outage hits millions of users worldwide.
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Sign up here to get it in your inbox.The announcement came hours after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned following reports that he had multiple extramarital relationships, including one with a suspected Chinese spy.Earlier Thursday, Republican Sen.
Tim Scott, chair of the Senate Banking Committee, sent letters to Lutnick and Huang asking them to “appear voluntarily” at a public hearing.Other lawmakers, including the top Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, have demanded answers from Lutnick about the Trump administration’s “approval of advanced AI chip exports.”The White House has defended Lutnick and Huang has previously praised the commerce secretary for helping to advance U.S.
efforts to maintain its leadership in AI.The scrutiny surrounding Huang gained widespread attention after Nvidia said Sunday that it was investigating whether he had fallen victim to a foreign intelligence operation.Then The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Huang had also had an extramarital relationship with a married Nvidia executive who reported directly to him.More on the mounting political pressure.Related coverage on the Nvidia scandal:Who is Colette Kress? The company’s interim CEO has been its chief financial officer since 2013 and is a familiar face on Wall Street.For subscribers: What to know about the loophole that allowed Chinese companies to access Nvidia’s chips.For subs...