Anonymous sources have informed the New York Times that a senior executive at a Singaporean AI cloud company, previously implicated in the illicit sale of Nvidia chips to China, might also be a Chinese intelligence operative.
The executive, identified as Alice Huang (also known as Huang Le) of Megaspeed, was observed in photographs attending several business dinners alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in the Singapore area. According to the Times, U.S. intelligence agencies had been monitoring Alice Huang for approximately a year to investigate her connections with China.
Sources indicated that the apprehension stemmed from Alice Huang’s apparent closeness to Jensen Huang, raising suspicions that she could have been collecting intelligence on Nvidia’s strategic initiatives and the CEO’s attempts to persuade the Trump administration to permit increased shipments of advanced technology to China.
However, an Nvidia spokesperson refuted these claims, informing TechCrunch that the CEO’s interactions with the Megaspeed executive were no different from those with any other customer in the region.
“Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected. Meetings with customers are part of a C.E.O.’s job; Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year,” the spokesperson said in an emailed statement. The company also said, “Our regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information — not sensitive NVIDIA trade secrets — and zero information relevant to national security.”
The Times reported in 2025 that the Commerce Department had launched an investigation into Megaspeed due to allegations that it was assisting Chinese firms in circumventing AI chip export restrictions by re-selling prohibited chips. Alice Huang was reportedly a senior executive at the company during that period.