US Reportedly Investigated Whether Nvidia Customer Executive Was a Chinese Spy
US intelligence agencies monitored Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore AI cloud company MegaSpeed.Ai, for about a year over concerns about her ties to China, TechCrunch reports, citing anonymous sources who spoke to The New York Times. Officials reportedly suspected she could be collecting information about NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's plans and his efforts to secure US approval for advanced chip sales to China.
NVIDIA denied that Alice Huang had unusual access to its CEO. The company said Jensen Huang meets thousands of customer executives each year and that regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information, not trade secrets or national security information.
Alice Huang was also identified as a senior MegaSpeed.Ai executive during a 2025 Commerce Department investigation into whether the company helped Chinese customers evade US export controls by reselling restricted AI chips.
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