Alleged Chinese spy had ‘close relationship’ with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang: NY Times
Nvidia said Jensen Huang’s contacts with a Megaspeed executive were routine as U.S. officials examined whether advanced chips reached China.
- A explosive New York Times report revealed that U.S. intelligence agencies scrutinised interactions between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Alice Huang , a former executive at Singapore-based cloud provider Megaspeed suspected of being a Chinese intelligence asset.
- Federal investigators launched a probe into Megaspeed after Commerce Department officials inspected a Malaysian data center in late 2024 and found boxed Nvidia hardware suspected of being illicitly diverted to Chinese tech firms, including Alibaba, in circumvention of export controls.
- Intelligence surveillance revealed that Alice Huang cultivated a close relationship with Jensen Huang, raising counterintelligence concerns over whether Beijing sought insights into Trump administration chip policy or Nvidia’s proprietary operations.
- President Trump was briefed on the intelligence findings roughly a year ago but took no action, reportedly to avoid disrupting Nvidia’s commercial sales, destabilizing markets, or escalating U.S.-China trade tensions.
- Nvidia strongly defended its executive, stating that Jensen Huang meets with thousands of customer leaders annually, received no defensive briefing from law enforcement, and shared only standard business information—with zero access given to trade secrets or national security secrets.
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A Singapore data center company, Megaspeed, buys chips from Nvidia, the world's most valuable company thanks to its sophisticated devices driving the current AI boom. The U.S. government suspected since 2024 that Megaspeed sold those chips to Alibaba and other Chinese companies irregularly. Because since 2022 Washington has restricted the export of the most powerful models to China.Read more
On Friday, Beijing called "substantial speculation" press reports that Jensen Huang, the boss of the US semiconductor giant Nvidia, had been the target of a Chinese spy operation.
Beijing called "substantial sentences" press reports that Jensen Huang had been the target of Chinese espionage.
An article in The New York Times, published on Thursday, stated that U.S. intelligence officials concluded that a Chinese executive linked to a Singapore-based data center company had been sending information to Beijing. "The report in question is based on unfounded speculations and is merely an attempt to defame China," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun at a press conference. "The Asian giant has a battle for technological dominance wi…
‘Groundless speculation’: China denies spy plot targeting Nvidia chief Jensen Huang
BEIJING, Oct 30 — Beijing dismissed as “groundless speculation” today a report that said Jensen Huang, head of US chip giant Nvidia, was the target of a Chinese spy plot.The...
Bangkok, 30 Oct (EFE).- Megaspeed, a Singaporean company that offers cloud computing services specialized in artificial intelligence (IA), has become the subject of scrutiny for the alleged diversion of Nvidia chips to China and, according to The New York Times (NYT), the provision of intelligence to Beijing by a [...] The Chinese entry labeled "unsubstantiated" the US investigation of Chinese businesswoman for espionage was first published in H…
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