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US Intelligence Investigated Nvidia CEO’s Business Associate on Suspicion of Espionage
US intelligence conducted a secret investigation into Alice Huang, who has close business ties to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, worked as an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company that provides cloud services for artificial intelligence (AI). She allegedly collected information for Chinese intelligence. US officials believe Jensen Huang was unaware of this.
Intelligence agencies monitored Alice Huang’s electronic communications for approximately 1 year. Her connections with Jensen Huang emerged during the covert surveillance. US officials were concerned that Alice Huang could pass information to Beijing about Nvidia’s plans and negotiations over the sale of advanced technology to China. President Donald Trump was also briefed on the matter. He allegedly took no action to avoid harming sales and relations with China.
Alice Huang was listed as managing director in 2023 after Megaspeed was founded. Her name was later removed from the company’s official documents. Megaspeed builds data centers as Nvidia’s cloud partner. The company leases the computing power of these centers to Chinese companies such as Alibaba. The US Department of Commerce launched an investigation in late 2024. The investigation found that the equipment ordered remained in boxes at a data center in Malaysia. This raised suspicions that the chips could be sent elsewhere.
Megaspeed has been accused of illegally diverting $2 billion (approximately AZN 3.4 billion) worth of Nvidia chips to China. The company is suspected of reselling restricted AI chips, thereby helping Chinese companies circumvent US export rules. Nvidia says the allegations were thoroughly investigated and found to be baseless. No definitive findings confirming that the chips were actually sent to China have been made public.
Alice Huang was photographed with Jensen Huang at a meeting held after Computex 2024. Approximately 1 year later, during Computex 2025, she was again seen leaving a restaurant in Taipei with Jensen Huang and other businesspeople. An Nvidia representative said these were ordinary customer meetings. According to the representative, the company’s CEO speaks with thousands of customer representatives every year. Nvidia emphasized that no trade secrets or national security information were shared at those meetings.
The Chinese Embassy called the allegations “baseless smears and slander.” Surveillance of Alice Huang is reportedly continuing. Nevertheless, Jensen Huang was not given a specific security briefing about the potential foreign threat. No reason was disclosed, but one possibility is that authorities wanted to keep the investigation secret. Nvidia said it trusts the US government to notify the company if it identifies a dangerous person and that it takes appropriate action in response to such warnings.
In recent years, Jensen Huang has advocated reducing restrictions in the AI sector. He has also called for easing sanctions on sales of advanced chips to China. Nvidia shares have risen by more than 1,250 percent since ChatGPT was released. In December, the Trump administration authorized sales of H200 chips to China. Under the condition, 25 percent of sales revenue must go to the government. Jensen Huang sat at the head table at the White House during Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington. Donald Trump later presented him with the National Medal of Science.