Chinese spies targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times

Why it matters

US intelligence agencies concluded that Alice Huang of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center operator, is an informant for China and that she passes information to Beijing while moving in the orbit of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, The New York Times reports. President Trump was briefed on the matter but chose not to act, reportedly to avoid disrupting Nvidia's chip sales or deepening trade tensions with China; Jensen Huang himself was not warned, because officials believed he was unaware of any wrongdoing. The US government also suspects Megaspeed of helping China obtain access to Nvidia chips, citing purchases of AI hardware containing those chips by a Malaysian sister company. Nvidia says meeting customers is a normal part of a CEO's job and that Megaspeed receives no sensitive information, while Megaspeed has opened an internal investigation. The story highlights the tension between US export controls on advanced chips and commercial relationships with firms tied to China.