US investigated an alleged Chinese espionage plot targeting Nvidia's CEO, according to the NYT

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According to anonymous sources cited by the New York Times, a senior executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based AI cloud company accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China, may also have been a Chinese spy. The executive is Alice Huang (also referred to as Huang Le). She was photographed alongside others at several business dinners with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in the Singapore region.

The article says US intelligence agencies had been monitoring Alice Huang for about a year to better understand her ties to China. The concern, according to the sources, was that she had grown so close to Nvidia's CEO that she could be gathering information about the company's plans and about Jensen Huang's efforts to persuade the Trump administration to allow more advanced technology to be exported to China.

Nvidia denies this. A spokesperson told TechCrunch that the CEO's relationship with the Megaspeed executive is the same as the one he maintains with any other regional customer. In its statement, the company said: «Jensen's interactions with Ms. Huang are neither unusual nor unexpected. Meeting with customers is part of a CEO's job; Jensen speaks with thousands of customer executives every year». The company added that its regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information, not sensitive NVIDIA trade secrets, and no information relevant to national security.

For context, the article recalls that in 2025 the New York Times reported that the Commerce Department had investigated Megaspeed on suspicion of helping Chinese companies circumvent AI chip export rules by reselling restricted chips to them. Alice Huang was already listed at the time as a senior executive at the firm.

The text provides no public evidence or further details about the alleged espionage, nor does it confirm any formal charges against the executive, so it should be treated as a developing story based on anonymous sources.