Nvidia CEO reportedly targeted by an alleged Chinese spy
A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.
Key points
- intelligence agencies surveilled a person close to CEO Jensen Huang over concerns she could be a Chinese spy.
- Those officials have determined that she was acting as a Chinese intelligence asset, passing commercial information to Beijing, the New York Times reported, citing unnamed sources.
- She had previously been suspected of smuggling Nvidia chips to China, prompting American officials to surveil and monitor her.
A Chinese businesswoman who had a close relationship with Jensen Huang was found to be passing intelligence to Beijing.
Alice Huang or Huang Le, of no relation to the Nvidia CEO, is an executive at a Singapore-based datacenter company called Megaspeed.
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NYT PoliticsOctober 29, 2026, 7:27 PM UTC →
CNBCOctober 29, 2026, 7:16 PM UTC →
TechCrunchOctober 29, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC →
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