US Intelligence Investigated Chinese Espionage Allegations Targeting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

US intelligence agencies monitored Alice Huang, an executive at the Singapore-based AI cloud firm Megaspeed, for approximately year over suspicions that she gathered information on behalf of China through her close ties with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

According to a report by The New York Times citing anonymous sources, Alice Huang (Huang Le), a senior executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, had met with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at various business dinners in the region. US intelligence tracked Alice Huang's ties to China and the close relationship she established with Jensen Huang for about a year. The primary concern of the intelligence units was that this closeness might have been used to gather information regarding Nvidia's plans and the CEO's efforts within the Trump administration to ship more advanced technology to China.

An Nvidia spokesperson firmly rejected these allegations, stating that the CEO's relationship with the Megaspeed executive was no different from that with other regional customers. The statement noted that client meetings are part of a CEO's routine business and that Jensen Huang meets with thousands of customer executives every year. It was also emphasized that regional cloud customers were provided only with ordinary business information rather than sensitive trade secrets or national security-related data.

Meanwhile, reports surfaced in the press that in 2025 the Department of Commerce also investigated Megaspeed over allegations of helping Chinese companies bypass AI chip export regulations to resell restricted chips. It was noted that Alice Huang held a senior executive position at the company during that period.