Chinese executive Alice Huang linked to alleged espionage targeting Nvidia CEO
U.S. officials allege that Chinese citizen Alice Huang, a former senior executive at Megaspeed International, was recruited to gather intelligence on Nvidia chief Jensen Huang.
U.S. officials have accused Chinese citizen Alice Huang of being recruited by Beijing to collect intelligence on Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, according to reports in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Huang, who has also been identified as Huang Le, previously held a senior role at Singapore-based data-centre firm Megaspeed International, a company described as a core partner of Nvidia’s cloud-computing business in the Asia-Pacific region.
The New York Times cited sources briefed on the surveillance, noting that Huang is fluent in English and well connected within the global AI-chip industry, a sector the United States and China consider strategically sensitive. Public records show Huang’s earlier employment included positions at HSBC and as a reporter for Chinese media outlets CCTV and Hunan TV, though AFP could not verify the source of this profile.
Media outlets reported that Jensen Huang and Alice Huang had a close personal relationship, with the Nvidia chief apologising to employees for personal conduct that affected his family. Photographs from a 2024 industry event and a 2025 dinner in Taipei showed the two together, and video footage captured them interacting publicly.
Megaspeed International, formerly known as 7Road International, rents computing power for AI training and deployment. The firm’s website lists offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, but a call to its listed number reached a residential line, and company representatives were unfamiliar with the inquiry. Singapore authorities have reportedly questioned Alice Huang in 2025 as part of a probe into the firm’s activities.
U.S. export controls restrict the sale of Nvidia’s most advanced chips to China for national-security reasons. The New York Times reported that the U.S. government has been investigating Megaspeed since 2024 over possible diversion of Nvidia chips to China. Bloomberg News also covered a Singapore investigation into alleged chip smuggling, which Megaspeed denied in a December 2025 statement, calling the reporting misleading.