U.S. investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO

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A apical enforcement of a Singapore AI unreality steadfast that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could besides person been a Chinese spy, anonymous sources told the New York Times.

The executive, Alice Huang (or Huang Le), worked for Megaspeed, and was photographed arsenic 1 of aggregate radical hanging retired of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during assorted concern dinners successful the Singapore region. U.S. quality agencies had been surveilling Alice Huang to larn much astir her ties with China for astir a year, the Times reports.

The concern, sources said, was that Alice Huang had grown truthful adjacent to Jensen Huang, that she could person been gathering accusation astir Nvidia’s plans and the CEO’s efforts to person the Trump Administration to let it to vessel much precocious exertion to China.

But an Nvidia spokesperson denied this, telling TechCrunch that the CEO’s narration with the Megaspeed enforcement was the aforesaid arsenic with immoderate different determination customer.

“Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not antithetic oregon unexpected. Meetings with customers are portion of a C.E.O.’s job; Jensen talks with thousands of lawsuit executives each year,” the spokesperson said successful an emailed statement. The institution besides said “Our determination unreality customers person mean concern information—not delicate NVIDIA commercialized secrets—and zero accusation applicable to nationalist security.”

In 2025, the Times reported that the Commerce Department had investigated Megaspeed implicit concerns that it was helping Chinese companies side-step AI spot export regulations by reselling restricted chips to them. Alice Huang was said to beryllium a apical enforcement for the steadfast astatine the time.

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