US investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO

Anonymous sources told the New York Times that Alice Huang (Huang Le), a top executive at Singapore AI cloud firm Megaspeed, may have been a Chinese spy and was surveilled by U.S. intelligence agencies for about a year over concerns she grew close to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. An Nvidia spokesperson denied wrongdoing, telling TechCrunch that Jensen Huang's interactions with her were the same as with any regional customer and that regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information, not sensitive trade secrets or national-security-relevant information. The Times reported in 2025 that the Commerce Department had investigated Megaspeed over concerns it helped Chinese companies sidestep AI chip export regulations by reselling restricted chips.