US Intelligence Tracked a Suspected Chinese Spy Close to Jensen Huang for a Year and Hasn't Warned Him

For about a year, US intelligence agencies have been watching a woman they believe is a Chinese intelligence asset. She kept turning up at dinners next to Jensen Huang, the Nvidia CEO who is lobbying the White House to let more advanced chips ship to China. Nobody has told him.

The woman is Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, listed as managing director of Megaspeed, a Singapore AI firm and Nvidia cloud partner that builds data centers and rents compute to Chinese companies like Alibaba. People familiar with the investigation told the New York Times that US officials believe she was passing information to Beijing, and that the surveillance is still going.

A seat at the table

The worry is proximity. Officials fear she grew close enough to the Nvidia chief to gather information about the company's plans and about his campaign to convince the Trump administration to loosen chip export limits. Some officials are concerned Beijing may be targeting close allies of President Trump more broadly.

Photos show how close. Around Computex 2024 she sat beside Jensen Huang with other executives at an informal event, in a LinkedIn post by NetThunder that identified her as Megaspeed Chairwoman Alice Wong. Around Computex 2025 she was seen leaving a Taipei restaurant with him and other business associates, Tom's Hardware reports.

It remains unclear what first drew US intelligence to her. Officials do not believe Jensen Huang knows about her alleged activities.

Briefed, and left alone

Trump was briefed. According to the report, he chose not to act, apparently because he did not want to hurt Nvidia sales or antagonize China. That fits a president with an unusually direct line to the CEO; Huang was one of three tech chiefs who each called Trump to kill an AI watchdog plan.

Huang himself has not received a defensive briefing, the warning US counterintelligence sometimes gives Americans targeted by foreign spies. One possible reason, per the report, is to avoid tipping off Alice Huang.

Megaspeed was already on Washington's radar. In 2025 the Commerce Department investigated whether it was helping Chinese companies sidestep AI chip export rules by reselling restricted hardware, and officials who visited its Malaysia data center found Nvidia equipment still packed in boxes. The company was accused of helping smuggle $2 billion worth of Nvidia chips last year.

Nvidia shrugs, Beijing denies

Nvidia played down the contact. "Jensen's interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected," a spokesperson said, adding that he talks with thousands of customer executives every year. The company told TechCrunch that regional cloud customers receive "ordinary business information" and "zero information relevant to national security."

"We're confident that if the U.S. government believes that any person is a threat to American industry, it would let us know," the spokesperson said, noting that Nvidia often gets government updates on entities of concern and "always act accordingly."

The Chinese embassy in Washington called the allegations "groundless smears and slanders" against China.

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