A Chinese spy has infiltrated the life of the director of Nvidia, a world leader in chip manufacturing

BarcelonaNew scandal in the technology sector and the world of artificial intelligence. This time linked to Jensen Huang, the director of Nvidia, the leading company in the world in the manufacture of computer chips, including those that power large generative AI models. As reported by The New York Times, a high-ranking executive at a data center company based in Singapore that was one of the company's clients –Megaspeed–, has turned out to be a Chinese intelligence agent who was relaying information to Beijing about Nvidia.

The most bizarre part of the case, however, is that the spy –Alice Huang or Le Huang, a Chinese citizen– had allegedly developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang himself, the director of Nvidia. Information that fits with investigations by US intelligence services, which conclude that China was receiving reports from someone with direct access to Jensen Huang.

Furthermore, The New York Times has reported that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, had known about the intelligence services' findings for a year, but decided not to take any action. According to the media outlet, Trump chose inaction to avoid harming Nvidia's chip sales and not to further complicate the trade relationship with the Chinese.

Nvidia spokesperson John Rizzo explained to The New York Times that "Jensen's interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected," as "meetings with clients are part of a CEO's job." In this regard, Rizzo insisted that "if the United States government considered someone to be a threat to the American industry, they would let us know." Clients like Megaspeed "receive ordinary commercial information, not sensitive trade secrets, and zero information relevant to national security," the spokesperson remarked.

Megaspeed, one of the main entities involved in the espionage plot, points out in a statement that its "current management" is taking the matter "very seriously and is committed to clarifying the facts behind these allegations." It stresses that "external lawyers have been hired to carry out a comprehensive internal investigation and the United States government has been notified of the firm commitment to cooperate."

Who is the Chinese spy?

Alice Huang is a Chinese executive and investor who ended up becoming one of the main directors of Megaspeed. The main suspicions regarding the executive began at the end of former President Joe Biden's administration by the Department of Commerce, which believed that Alice Huang was helping China evade United States bans on accessing Nvidia chip frameworks. Despite ongoing investigations, it has not yet been made public how she began collecting information, what data she transmitted, and what value it had for China.

The United States government has also been investigating the company where Alice Huang works since 2024, as it suspects that the Nvidia equipment to which Megaspeed had access as a client could actually be being sent to other destinations without authorization.

The contact between the two

Some of the public interactions between Jensen Huang and Alice Huang can be found on the internet. As reported by the New York Times, in June 2024, a few weeks before Megapeed made its first chip purchases from Nvidia, several photographs posted on LinkedIn showed the CEO of Nvidia alongside Alice Huang at a bar in Taipei after a local technology fair. And in 2025 they were seen together again leaving a restaurant, also in Taipei, after a business dinner with other AI suppliers. However, it is not clear when they met, as before these joint appearances last year, Alice Huang had already posted photos with Jensen Huang on her social media.