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

U.S. intelligence agencies surveilled Alice Huang (Huang Le), a top executive at Singapore-based AI cloud firm Megaspeed, for about a year over concerns she might be a Chinese spy, anonymous sources told the New York Times. Huang had been photographed with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at business dinners in the Singapore region, and officials worried she had grown close enough to gather information on Nvidia's plans and the CEO's efforts to persuade the Trump administration to permit shipments of more advanced technology to China. Nvidia denied the concerns, saying the CEO's interactions with Huang were ordinary customer meetings and that regional cloud customers receive only ordinary business information, not sensitive trade secrets or national security-relevant data. The report follows a 2025 Times story that the Commerce Department investigated Megaspeed over suspicions it helped Chinese companies circumvent AI chip export restrictions by reselling restricted chips.

(Source：TechCrunch)