Reports: US officials weigh removing Commerce Secretary Lutnick amid questions over Megaspeed blacklistingMachine translation

axios reports that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over why Nvidia customer Megaspeed isn’t blacklisted. Bessent pressed to blacklist Nvidia customer Megaspeed, the Singapore firm bought more than $4B of advanced Nvidia hardware for Southeast Asian data centers serving Chinese clients. Several agencies, including the State Department, agreed months ago to add the firm to the entity list, but Commerce dept, which issues the rules, stalled.

Reuters: Now White House officials weighing removing Howard Lutnick as Nvidia’s spy scandal reaches the Commerce Department. Lutnick reportedly received a classified memo in May warning that Jensen Huang was involved with a suspected Chinese spy, yet his department still never blacklisted her company, Megaspeed, which has bought over $4.8B of Nvidia AI chips.