NYT Reports US Intelligence Suspects Informant Close to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
According to The New York Times, US intelligence agencies suspect Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based data center operator Megaspeed, is passing information to Beijing. President Trump was reportedly briefed but took no action. China denies the allegations, and Megaspeed has launched an internal investigation.
According to a report by The New York Times, relayed by technology media outlet The Decoder, US intelligence agencies believe that Alice Huang (Huang Le), an executive at Singapore-based data center operator Megaspeed, is an informant for China and is close to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The report states that US authorities discovered she passes information to Beijing while monitoring her.
The report indicates that President Trump was briefed about a year ago but did nothing, likely to avoid disrupting Nvidia's chip sales or further straining trade relations with China. US officials believed at the time that Jensen Huang had no idea, so he was not warned.
The US government also suspects Megaspeed of helping China get access to Nvidia chips. Between June 2024 and February 2026, a Malaysian sister company bought at least $4.8 billion worth of AI hardware containing Nvidia chips, according to the report. An Nvidia spokesperson said meeting with customers is part of a CEO's job and that Megaspeed does not receive sensitive information. Megaspeed has announced an internal investigation. A spokesperson for the Chinese embassy dismissed the allegations as "groundless smears and slanders."