Anonymous sources told the New York Times that U.S. intelligence agencies spent about a year surveilling Alice Huang, a top executive at Singapore AI cloud firm Megaspeed, over concerns that she was a Chinese spy who had gotten close enough to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to gather information. The Times reported that Huang (also referred to as Huang Le) was photographed alongside Jensen Huang at several business dinners in the Singapore region. The concern, per sources, was that she could collect details about Nvidia‘s plans and the CEO’s efforts to persuade the Trump administration to allow the company to ship more advanced technology to China.

Megaspeed had previously been accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China. In 2025, the Commerce Department investigated the company over suspicion that it was helping Chinese companies side-step AI chip export regulations by reselling restricted chips, and Huang was then described as a top executive.

Nvidia disputed the espionage framing. A spokesperson said Jensen Huang‘s interactions with Huang were not unusual and that meeting customers is part of a CEO’s job, adding that he talks with thousands of customer executives every year. The company also said regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information, not sensitive Nvidia trade secrets, and zero information relevant to national security.