NYT: U.S. Intelligence Identifies Nvidia CEO’s Associate as Chinese Intelligence Asset

The New York Times reported on Oct. 29 (local time) that U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed a Chinese executive at a Singapore-based data center company who had maintained close contact with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as an “intelligence asset” passing information to Beijing. According to the Times, the individual is Alice Huang, known in Chinese as Huang Le, an executive at Megaspeed, a company based in Singapore and Malaysia. U.S. intelligence officials reportedly believe she had been relaying information to Beijing. The report did not specify what information she allegedly passed on.

U.S. intelligence agencies have been investigating since late 2024, during the Biden administration, allegations that Megaspeed was purchasing large quantities of Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence chips and diverting them to China through indirect channels. During the investigation, authorities conducting electronic surveillance of Alice Huang detected communications between her and a U.S. citizen. Through an “unmasking” procedure — used to determine the identity of a U.S. citizen whose communications appear…