US intelligence agencies spent about a year surveilling a Singapore-based AI cloud executive they suspected of acting as an informant for China, in part because of her access to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times. The executive, Alice Huang (also known as Huang Le), held a top role at Megaspeed, a data center operator that US authorities have separately investigated over the alleged illegal resale of Nvidia chips to China.
The reported concern was that Alice Huang had grown close to Jensen Huang through repeated business meetings in the Singapore region, giving her possible insight into Nvidia's plans and the CEO's lobbying in Washington on China chip exports. The New York Times report says President Trump was briefed on the matter roughly a year ago and took no action, and that Jensen Huang was not warned.
What the reports say about the Nvidia spy case
The two accounts, from TechCrunch and The Decoder, both trace back to The New York Times and to anonymous sources, so the central claim remains unproven. TechCrunch describes the surveillance as an effort to understand Alice Huang's China ties; The Decoder says US agencies concluded she passes information to Beijing. Alice Huang has not been charged, and no court finding has been reported.
The case sits on top of a separate export-control file. US authorities have looked into whether Megaspeed helped Chinese companies sidestep AI chip restrictions, and a Malaysian sister company is reported to have bought at least $4.8 billion worth of AI hardware containing Nvidia chips between June 2024 and February 2026.
- US agencies surveilled Alice Huang of Singapore-based Megaspeed for about a year, per The New York Times.
- The reported worry: her access to Jensen Huang could have exposed Nvidia's China plans.
