The investigation conducted by The New York Times claims that Nvidia's co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a spy who, in addition to selling company chips to laboratories in China, also gave information to the Chinese government.
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30/10/2026
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A strong competitiveness that is felt in the area of Artificial Intelligence is especially visible in relations between the US and China, with the two powers seeking to gain the lead with regard to the development of the most advanced models.
In another chapter in the rivalry between the two countries, the The New York Times he shared an investigation that states that Nvidia's co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang was targeted for espionage activity.
The information obtained by the U.S. intelligence services indicates that Nvidia's leader developed a “next relationship” with a spy possibly connected to the Chinese government. The possible spy was named Alice Huang (no family relationship with Jensen), a Chinese citizen and also executive of a Singapore-based data center company, Megaspeed.
Megaspeed had the practice of buying chips from Nvidia that later sold to Artificial Intelligence laboratories in China – effectively violating US laws, which prohibit Nvidia chips from being sold to Chinese customers. In addition to the fact that U.S. agencies discovered this improper practice, they also realized that Alice Huang was passing information to the Chinese government.
There are no details on the kind of information Alice Huang has passed on to the Chinese government as a result of her interactions with the leader of Nvidia, but Jensen Huang is known to have had no warning from the U.S. intelligence services in order not to compromise the investigation.
Nvidia has officially spoken about the situation, noting that her CEO's interactions with Alice Huang “they are neither suspicious nor unexpected”, adding that Jensen Huang “talk to thousands of executive customers every year”.
Furthermore, Nvidia said that Megaspeed does not receive sensitive business secrets, stressing that “no different from so many other regional cloud customers”. The company also says that it is “confident that it would be notified if the US government believed that anyone was a threat to American industry”.