Nvidia CEO targeted by alleged Chinese spy
The US believes she was previously smuggling AI chips to China.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Bloomberg via Getty Images.
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- US investigators reportedly suspect Alice Huang acted as a Chinese asset and targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
- Nvidia says Jensen Huang meets many executives and does not freely share sensitive information with potential clients.
- US officials worry because Jensen Huang has recently developed ties with President Donald Trump.
- The US has tightened AI chip export controls and warns China is trying to gain American AI knowledge.
Key Takeaways by nexos.ai, reviewed by Cybernews staff.
Nvidia’s CEO reportedly built a close relationship with a suspected Chinese spy who has been accused of smuggling AI chips and sensitive industry information to Beijing.
Jensen Huang, CEO of AI chipmaker Nvidia, has reportedly been targeted by a Chinese spy who formed close ties with the company after doing business with Nvidia via the Singapore-based company MegaSpeed International.
In the past, Alice Huang (also known as Huang Le) has been accused of smuggling Nvidia chips into China, leading US officials to monitor her for some time.
MegaSpeed’s website still features a pop-up notification from December of 2025 claiming that an article written by Bloomberg was “misleading” and contained “incorrect insinuations” regarding illegal chip transfers.
As authorities continued to monitor the MegaSpeed executive, they discovered that Alice Huang, unrelated to Jensen Huang, had formed a close relationship with the Nvidia CEO, according to the New York Times.
Cybernews has reached out to MegaSpeed for comment.
The investigation concluded that Alice Huang was operating as a Chinese asset, suspected of funneling industry information to Beijing, said anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
An Nvidia spokesperson told the Times that its CEO liaises with a multitude of business executives and potential customers. The CEO also never freely shares sensitive information with potential clients.
US authorities are concerned about the relationship, given that Jensen Huang has developed ties with President Donald Trump in recent months.
China steals from US to further AI advancement
The US government has attempted to hinder China’s position in the AI race by imposing strict export controls on sophisticated AI chips, deeming this a matter of national security.
Authorities have previously hidden tracking devices in chip shipments to see whether they were being illegally diverted to China.
China has also been accused of exploiting commercial US models to further its position in the AI race.
The US government has warned major AI companies that China is using distillation attacks to steal their intellectual property.
America’s primary cybersecurity agency, CISA, warned that Chinese AI labs like Alibaba and Deepseek are stealing knowledge from major AI companies.
Anthropic also claimed that the Chinese tech giant Alibaba had conducted an industrial-scale attack on Claude AI systems to learn more about America’s frontier models.
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