NVIDIA Launches Investigation Into Jensen Huang's Relationship With Suspected Chinese Spy

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NVIDIA announced on Sunday that its board of directors is launching a full-scale independent investigation into recent reports that founder and CEO Jensen Huang had a relationship with a woman the U.S. intelligence community believes is an agent of the Chinese state. A few days earlier, The New York Times reported that Jensen had engaged in a close relationship with an executive at Megaspeed named Alice Huang; Megaspeed is believed to be helping evade U.S. export controls on NVIDIA chips for Chinese companies, allowing them to use chips banned by the U.S. Government from shipping to Chinese customers, and its network of sister companies is building data centers in Malaysia to satisfy the compute needs of Chinese customers. The original NYT report notes that China's Ministry of State Security — described as the Chinese equivalent of the CIA — reportedly recruited Alice Huang to extract information from Jensen Huang. The investigation has only been announced as launching and is not shown as completed; the relationship and export-control evasion claims are reports, and the source does not state any effect on chip prices or supply.

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Source: TechPowerUp · 11/8/2026 · View original source