U.S. officials say former Megaspeed executive met Nvidia CEO amid espionage concerns

U.S. officials have concluded that a former executive of Singapore-based cloud computing company Megaspeed, identified as Alice Huang or Huang Le, is suspected of collecting intelligence for the Chinese government and had several meetings with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to a report citing the New York Times. Megaspeed, which purchases Nvidia chips to build and rent out data-center capacity, has been under scrutiny by U.S. agencies for potential export-control violations.

The meetings raised alarms among U.S. officials tasked with preventing China from evading restrictions on high-end AI chips, who feared the executive could obtain sensitive information from the head of the world’s largest chipmaker. The report said President Donald Trump was briefed on the matter about a year ago but took no action, as officials at the time did not believe Huang was aware of the intelligence-gathering activities.

Nvidia said the interactions were routine, noting that the CEO regularly meets with thousands of customer executives. > "Meetings with customers are part of a CEO's job; Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year," a Nvidia spokesperson told Fox News Digital. > "We're confident that if the U.S. government believes that any person is a threat to American industry, it would let us know."

The spokesperson added that Megaspeed is comparable to other regional cloud customers. The Chinese government dismissed the allegations as unfounded, while the White House did not immediately comment. In January, the Trump administration eased restrictions on Nvidia AI chip exports to China, allowing case-by-case transfers of the H200 chip under a fee arrangement intended to safeguard national-security interests.