After Jensen Huang is Howard Lutnick the prime target of national security inquiry? | Fortune

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A Fortune commentary by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian argues that after Jensen Huang's resignation over an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, bipartisan scrutiny of Nvidia chips flowing into China now falls squarely on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who by multiple accounts stalled export controls on Megaspeed and resisted President Trump's ordered crackdowns despite objections from cabinet colleagues and lawmakers. The authors also fault Lutnick over the USA Rare Earth deal brokered by Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm he once led, and echo Trump's endorsement of Tim Cook as Nvidia's next CEO.

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