The New York Times: Megaspeed executive may have spied on Nvidia CEO

According to anonymous sources cited by The New York Times, U.S. intelligence agencies had surveilled Alice Huang, also identified as Huang Le, for about a year over suspicions that she could have gathered information about Nvidia’s plans and Jensen Huang’s efforts to sell technology to China. Huang was a top executive at Singapore-based AI cloud company Megaspeed, which had previously been investigated over the possible resale of restricted chips to Chinese companies.

g1 reported that U.S. authorities had allegedly concluded Huang was passing information to China and that Donald Trump had reportedly been informed of the suspicions but took no action. Nvidia denied that Jensen Huang shared trade secrets or information relevant to national security. Megaspeed hired outside lawyers for an internal investigation and said it would cooperate with the U.S. government; China’s embassy rejected the accusations.