Alice Huang Nvidia espionage allegations, Digi Mart USA News: China has rejected this Monday the accusations that Huang Le, known as Alice Huang and romantically linked to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, worked for its intelligence services. “The claims about an alleged Chinese spy are pure speculation without foundation and constitute slander and defamation,” said Guo Jiakun, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a routine briefing.
Beijing’s response comes after reports that led the chipmaker to open an independent investigation, announced Sunday, the same day its founder acknowledged being unfaithful to his wife. Those revelations shook the company’s stock, which fell nearly 6% in trading before the Wall Street opening.
Guo repeated the same formula when another journalist asked whether he expressly denied that the businesswoman worked for Chinese intelligence. He provided no details about a woman whose biography remains full of gaps.
Suspicions of espionage emerged on October 29, when The New York Times reported that U.S. authorities had concluded that Huang was passing information to Beijing, citing anonymous sources familiar with the surveillance.
On November 6, the newspaper reported that China’s Ministry of State Security had allegedly recruited her to obtain information on U.S. chips and potentially influence Nvidia to promote larger sales to China.
According to the newspaper, the assessment appeared in a memo circulated among senior U.S. officials.
The British newspaper Financial Times later added that a U.S. assessment described her relationship with Jensen Huang as romantic.
The evidence has not been made public. The Times had already focused on her in October 2025, when it investigated Megaspeed International, the Singapore-based data center company where she worked.
That report described her meetings with the Nvidia founder and U.S. inquiries into the company’s chip purchases, but did not establish an extramarital relationship or identify her as a spy.
Huang is a Chinese citizen and has no known relation to the businessman, who is of Taiwanese origin, despite sharing the surname. Her age, education, place of origin and current residence have not been made public.
It is also not known when she left China or whether she settled permanently in Singapore. A profile on Simuwang, a database of Chinese funds, states she worked four years in media and eight in the stock sector, listing positions as a reporter at Hunan TV and CCTV, assistant to the head of HSBC’s private banking division, and vice president of CITIC Securities.
Agence France-Presse has not been able to verify that résumé or who wrote it. EL PAÍS has also been unable to corroborate that background, which appears in numerous profiles published in recent days.
Bloomberg has found more solid documentation of her business activity in Shanghai. A 2016 post from the official account of the fund manager Shanghai Hexi Investment Management lists her among its executives.
The firm had invested in 7Road, a Chinese video game company from whose international business Megaspeed emerged. Records examined by the Singapore press show the company was established in 2015 as 7Road International.
In March 2023 it adopted the name Megaspeed, with Huang joining as managing director. Ownership then passed to Huang Le Limited and, in November, to Swiftdata, controlled by Singaporean Tan Yong Pong.
By November 10, 2023, Huang had resigned as director. It is unclear when she stopped being involved in the business.
Although it is not known when she met Nvidia’s founder, there is photographic evidence of the two together in Taipei in June 2024. According to Parker Schmitt, CEO of software company NetThunder, as he told the Times, Huang Le offered to a group of executives to get Jensen Huang to join them; he appeared shortly afterward.
A source close to Nvidia said he had already planned to attend and arrived with two other executives. AFP reviewed footage of a May 2025 dinner during Computex, the Taipei technology fair, showing displays of affection and the two leaving in the same car.
The scale of Megaspeed’s business explains Washington’s concern. According to commercial records cited by the NYT, a Malaysian company associated with Megaspeed bought advanced equipment using Nvidia technology worth at least $4.8 billion between June 2024 and February 2026.
The purchases came after her resignation as director, and there is no record that she personally directed them. Megaspeed rents computing capacity to Chinese customers, including e-commerce giant Alibaba, which can use those processors without physically importing them.
The United States is investigating whether restricted chips were also diverted to China. Nvidia denies finding evidence of smuggling.
The backdrop is technological competition between the world’s two largest powers. The United States has restricted exports of advanced processors to China since 2022 for national security reasons, citing possible military applications.
Those limits began when Democrat Joe Biden occupied the Oval Office. However, Jensen Huang, one of the most prominent figures in the artificial intelligence sector who has direct access to current U.S.
President Donald Trump, has argued for loosening those controls. In May, he was part of the delegation that accompanied the Republican on his trip to Beijing.
Trump described him Sunday as an “honorable person” and has expressed support for him remaining at the head of Nvidia.
The chairs of three House of Representatives committees have requested a closed-door appearance by Huang on November 18, according to Reuters. Singapore has confirmed an investigation into Megaspeed but has denied investigating Huang Le over her alleged ties to Chinese intelligence.
She has not offered her version. Nvidia maintains it has no reason to believe trade secrets or U.S.
national security have been compromised. In his letter to employees, its CEO acknowledged the infidelity without mentioning Alice Huang and promised to cooperate fully with the investigation.
