Trump backed Huang till end, urged him to fight for job amid China spy scandal

US President Donald Trump had urged Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang to fight to retain his job during a phone call on Tuesday, shortly before the company's boss stepped down amid his link to China spy scandal, the NYT reported.The call was the latest instance of Trump defending Huang, who had emerged as a prominent ally and influential adviser on artificial intelligence.

The US president continued to back the Nvidia's Huang even after US intelligence agencies concluded that he was having an affair with a woman Alice Huang believed to be a Chinese spy, the report said.Nvidia announced on Thursday that Huang, who built the company into the world's leading supplier of advanced AI chips, had been replaced as chief executive following revelations of an alleged affair with the woman suspected of spying for China and another relationship with an employee.Trump had been warned at least twice about Huang's relationship with a Chinese citizen known as Alice Huang, whom intelligence agencies concluded had been recruited by China's ministry of state security.The first warning came late last…