US intelligence found a Chinese executive with a close relationship to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was funneling information to Beijing, sparking fresh national security alarms.
The Post reported that American intelligence agencies concluded Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, a Chinese citizen and top executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, was secretly sending information to Beijing while building contacts with one of the most powerful figures in American technology.
Electronic surveillance of her communications identified Nvidia chief Jensen Huang as one of those contacts. The findings offered no evidence he knew of her alleged intelligence work. Still, the relationship set off alarms inside the US government.
Nvidia sits at the center of the artificial intelligence boom. Its advanced chips power the systems Beijing wants. Washington has barred the company from selling its best processors to Chinese firms for years. That is the backdrop for the scrutiny now surrounding Megaspeed and the people around it.
US officials secretly monitored Alice Huang’s communications and reached a firm conclusion: she was funneling information to the Chinese government. People briefed on the classified findings described the assessment to the New York Times, which published the core account Thursday. The Post carried the details in its own reporting.
What specific secrets she allegedly passed, and how valuable they were, remains unclear. The Times could not determine that. The nature of the “close relationship” with Jensen Huang was not spelled out as romantic or purely commercial. The reporting did not resolve that question either.
What is documented is proximity. In June 2024, photos posted online showed Alice Huang and Jensen Huang together at a Taipei bar after a local tech show, drinking whiskey with other AI figures. In May 2025, video captured them leaving a Taipei restaurant after a business dinner with AI suppliers. She stood a few feet behind him, smiling, while he spoke with local journalists.
Megaspeed is a Nvidia customer and cloud partner based in Singapore. It supplies AI computing power to Chinese companies, including Alibaba. US authorities are investigating the firm on suspicions it helped Chinese companies dodge American export rules and move advanced Nvidia chips into China.
The alleged method was indirect. Megaspeed bought Nvidia chips through the US arm of Inspur, a Chinese server maker whose parent company Washington blacklisted for sending technology to China’s military. The American subsidiary itself is not under sanctions. Megaspeed then rented computing power from Southeast Asian data centers to Chinese clients. That structure is exactly the kind of middleman arrangement export hawks have warned about for years.
Nvidia rejected the suggestion that anything improper occurred in Jensen Huang’s dealings with Alice Huang. A company spokesperson told The Post the contacts fit normal executive work.
The spokesperson said:
"Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected."
The same spokesperson added that meetings with customers are part of a CEO’s job and that Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year. Nvidia also insisted regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information, not sensitive trade secrets, and “zero information relevant to national security.”
On the diversion claims tied to Megaspeed, Nvidia said the accusations were “thoroughly investigated and debunked last year.” The company further argued that Beijing has blocked American AI chips rather than chase them through regional cloud providers.
Another line from the spokesperson put the burden back on Washington:
"We’re confident that if the US government believes that any person is a threat to American industry, it would let us know."
That answer is clean corporate messaging. It does not erase the intelligence conclusion about Alice Huang, the surveillance that put Jensen Huang on her contact list, or the open investigation into Megaspeed’s chip pipeline.
President Trump was briefed on the intelligence findings roughly a year ago. He chose not to take action. He was wary of disrupting Nvidia’s lucrative chip sales and of further complicating trade relations with China.
That choice sits inside a larger record of engagement. Jensen Huang cultivated close ties with the president, attended a high-dollar donors’ dinner at Mar-a-Lago with his wife, Lori Mills Huang, and personally lobbied to allow Nvidia chip sales to Beijing. He pressed the administration to loosen restrictions on AI companies and chip exports to China. Nvidia donated at least $20 million to Trump’s White House ballroom fund, according to a person familiar with the matter cited in the Times account, and pledged to invest $500 billion in US manufacturing.
Nvidia’s market value runs roughly $5.2 trillion. It is the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. Those figures explain why any White House would weigh enforcement against economic shock. They do not cancel the counterintelligence problem.
Intelligence agencies initially assessed that Jensen Huang did not know of Alice Huang’s alleged espionage. Some senior officials in the Trump administration later doubted he “could have remained unaware.” Whether the formal intelligence assessment has changed is unclear. The report itself offered no proof he knew.
Lori Mills Huang met Jensen while both studied electrical engineering at Oregon State University. Their children, Spencer and Madison Huang, work at Nvidia. Those family details fill out the public profile. They do not speak to the classified findings about Alice Huang.
Chinese embassy spokesperson Liu Chang rejected the entire frame. He answered The Post with a standard denial of US espionage warnings.
Liu Chang said:
"China opposes vilifying China by peddling the so-called ‘Chinese spy’ narrative."
He added that China is committed to self-reliance in science and technology and that its development rests on independent innovation. He urged the United States to stop what he called malicious efforts to block and suppress China, drop “groundless smears and slanders,” and do more to support scientific exchanges.
US intelligence agencies reached the opposite conclusion about Alice Huang. Export controllers blacklisted Inspur’s parent for military tech diversion. Nvidia’s best chips remain banned for direct sale to Chinese companies. Those are official American positions, not talking points from a rival embassy.
For years, federal rules have blocked Nvidia from shipping its top processors to Chinese firms. The AI boom made those chips strategic. Cloud access and third-country partners created a gray zone. Megaspeed’s described role, buy through a non-sanctioned US arm, rent Southeast Asian compute, serve Chinese clients including Alibaba, is the gray zone in practice.
US authorities are still investigating those suspicions. Nvidia says last year’s internal look debunked diversion claims. The intelligence finding on Alice Huang stands apart from the company’s sales narrative. One tracks an alleged human intelligence channel. The other tracks hardware and compute access. Both matter if Beijing is shopping for American AI capability by any available route.
The White House and Megaspeed did not provide on-the-record responses in the available account. The Post sought comment. The gaps are real: no public inventory of what Alice Huang allegedly passed, no charged case described, and no final word on whether Jensen Huang’s formal clearance in the intelligence community’s eyes has shifted.
What is on the record is enough to force a hard look. A Chinese executive under US surveillance for funneling information to Beijing built a documented close relationship with the CEO of America’s most valuable public company. Photos and video placed them together in Taipei across two years. The firm she helped lead is under investigation for export-end runs. The president received the briefing and declined to move against the commercial relationship at the center of the alarm.
China runs a patient intelligence service aimed at Western technology. American AI leadership is a prime target. Export bans mean little if trusted middlemen and personal access reopen the door. Voters who want secure supply chains and honest enforcement should watch whether this case produces real accountability, or another quiet pass for a strategic industry that wants open markets more than closed loopholes.
