Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have been the target of a Chinese intelligence operation, and according to a bombshell new report, President Donald Trump knew about it for nearly a year.

A New York Times investigation published Thursday reveals that American intelligence officials concluded a Chinese businesswoman with close ties to Huang was passing information to Beijing. The woman, identified as Alice Huang, was also an executive at a company already under investigation for allegedly helping Chinese businesses obtain restricted Nvidia AI chips .

Even more surprising, Trump was reportedly briefed on the findings about a year ago but took no action, while Jensen Huang himself was never warned that someone in his business circle was suspected of working for Chinese intelligence.

The allegations arrive at a particularly sensitive moment for Nvidia, which supplies much of the computing power behind the world's leading AI systems, including ChatGPT and other popular chatbots .

How a suspected Chinese…