The "Financial Times" writes that US intelligence believes that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have been in a romantic relationship with a Chinese national recruited as a spy for Beijing. We are talking about Alice Huang, the head of the Singaporean Mega Speed company, which buys Nvidia chips. According to intelligence reports, she was recruited by the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
A memo about this relationship was circulated to a small circle of senior US officials shortly before Donald Trump traveled to Beijing for a summit with Xi Jinping.
The New York Times was the first to publish this story on October 29. According to her, Alice Huang passed information to Beijing, and American intelligence reached Jensen Huang through the interception of her communications with the American. The identity of the American was later determined; It was the head of Nvidia. NYT sources say there is no evidence he knowingly passed on classified information or knowledge of her work. At the same time, he did not receive a protective briefing on counterintelligence.
Nvidia has a longstanding problem with megaspeed. Back in 2025, the NYT wrote that the company spent about $2 billion on Nvidia chips and may have resold them to China or given Chinese customers remote access through data centers in Malaysia and Indonesia. Singapore then launched an investigation, and Senator Tom Cotton asked the US Department of Commerce to investigate the company. Export restrictions specifically prohibit the supply of the most powerful chips to China.
Republicans in Congress are now asking Huang to appear before House committees and answer questions about a possible Chinese espionage operation.
Nvidia calls Huang's relationship with Alice Huang a normal business relationship and says the allegations against MegaSpeed were investigated last year and not proven. The Chinese Foreign Ministry called the publications slanderous.