Trump Officials Clashed Over Megaspeed, Firm at Heart of Nvidia Affair
Ana Swanson and Tripp Mickle report for the New York Times on a White House clash in which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over why Megaspeed, a Singaporean firm under investigation for potentially diverting advanced Nvidia A.I. chips into China, had not been blacklisted. The infighting intensified after Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang acknowledged an affair with a woman who had helped lead Megaspeed, and it reflects broader administration disputes over how rigorously to enforce tech export controls amid a China trade truce.
