U.S. probed alleged Chinese spy effort targeting Nvidia CEO
Original title: U.S. investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO
Anonymous sources told the Times that a Megaspeed executive close to Jensen Huang may have sought Nvidia plans and China export policy.
The New York Times, citing anonymous sources, reported that U.S. intelligence watched Alice Huang (Huang Le), a top executive at Singapore AI cloud firm Megaspeed, for about a year over possible ties to China. Sources said closeness to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang could have exposed company plans and efforts to win Trump Administration approval to ship more advanced technology to China. Nvidia said the meetings were ordinary customer contact and that regional cloud customers get no sensitive trade secrets or national-security information. In 2025 the Times reported a Commerce Department probe of Megaspeed over reselling restricted chips to China.
Unconfirmed: The spy allegation comes only from anonymous sources; Nvidia denies unusual access or leakage of secrets.
- Alice Huang was photographed with Jensen Huang at Singapore-region business dinners.
- Nvidia said the CEO talks with thousands of customer executives every year.
- The 2025 Commerce inquiry concerned Megaspeed helping Chinese firms bypass chip export rules.
- Vendors
- Nvidia
- Organizations
- MegaspeedU.S. Department of Commerce
- Countries
- United StatesChinaSingapore
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A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.
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