By Karishma Ayaldasani
Publication Date: 2026-11-01 10:10:00
US President Donald Trump on Saturday backed Nvidia’s Jensen Huang after a report said he had been a target of a suspected Chinese intelligence operation, saying that the United States was looking “very closely” at the issue.
“I have a lot of respect for Jensen. I didn’t know about the specific thing, but I hope he’s going to be OK. He’s a great, brilliant person, and we want to protect our brilliant people,” Trump told reporters at his Florida residence, AFP reported.
“We’re going to check it out very closely,” the president added.
A New York Times report on Tuesday said Huang might have been the target of a suspected Chinese intelligence operation through his association with Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, a Chinese national and senior executive at Singapore-based data centre company Megaspeed. US intelligence agencies recently found that the Megaspeed executive was working for Chinese intelligence and passing information to Beijing.
This allegedly raised concerns in Washington because of her close relationship with Jensen Huang. Megaspeed buys computing equipment powered by Nvidia chips and rents data centre capacity to businesses, including Chinese technology giant Alibaba.
However, a spokesperson for Nvidia, John Rizzo, brushed off such concerns, saying, “Jensen’s interactions with Huang [Alice] are not unusual or unexpected. Meetings with customers…
