The New York Times reported that U.S. officials found Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed, was allegedly passing intelligence to Beijing while maintaining close ties with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The Rundown’s summary of the report.
The summary says Trump was briefed about the matter approximately a year earlier. Officials reportedly worried that Alice Huang could provide information about Trump’s views on chip sales to China and about Nvidia. It remains unclear what information she allegedly passed or what value it had. Officials did not believe Jensen Huang knew about her alleged role, and he was not given a defensive briefing, according to the account.
Megaspeed was already under U.S. investigation over allegations that it helped direct Nvidia chips to China. The company reportedly purchased at least $4.8 billion in Nvidia equipment through a sister firm and remains an Nvidia cloud partner. Nvidia described Jensen Huang’s meetings with Alice Huang as routine, saying customers receive ordinary business information and “zero information relevant to national security.” Megaspeed said outside counsel was investigating and that it was cooperating with the U.S. China called the claims “groundless smears and slanders.”
The allegations have not been publicly proven. The report also draws attention to arrangements that allow companies in Southeast Asia to rent Nvidia-powered computing capacity to Chinese AI laboratories.