The New York Times: A Chinese female intelligence officer has a close relationship with Jen-Hsun Huang

The Chinese woman’s name is Huang Le (transliteration), also known as Alice Huang. The U.S. government began investigating Megaspeed, a company headquartered in Singapore, at the end of 2024, the end of Biden's term, and suspected that it helped China circumvent the U.S. high-tech ban and obtain Nvidia's advanced chips for Chinese companies. Huang Le is an executive at Megaspeed. The U.S. government has been electronically monitoring her for some time.

While monitoring Huang Le, U.S. intelligence agencies discovered that she had contacts with Huang Renxun. The New York Times reported that because Huang has a deep understanding of U.S. President Trump’s thinking on core issues of concern between China and the United States, and because the United States relies almost entirely on companies such as Nvidia to maintain its dominance in the research and development of cutting-edge AI large models, the relationship between Huang Le and Huang “makes people wonder whether Ms. Huang is also collecting internal information from Nvidia.”

The report quoted multiple insiders as saying that Huang Le had posted many photos with Huang Renxun on his personal social media, and had also shown off their relationship to investors to raise funds. A photo posted on LinkedIn in June 2024 showed that Huang Renxun and Huang Le had attended the same gathering of technology industry executives at a bar in Taipei; in May of the following year, they were also seen walking out of a restaurant together after a business dinner for an artificial intelligence supplier in Taipei.

Nvidia spokesman John Rizzo said that as CEO, it is Huang's job to meet with senior executives of client companies, and his interaction with Huang Le was not abnormal. He also said that customers like Megaspeed will not have access to Nvidia’s internal sensitive business secrets, and will not have access to information involving national security at all.

Huang Renxun himself accepted an interview with Bloomberg News on the 29th, emphasizing that Nvidia has conducted checks to ensure that Megaspeed has not illegally exported AI processors to China. As for his dealings with Huang Le, it is no different from that of other Chinese customers: "Our relationships and interactions are all related to Megaspeed, and they are completely normal and there is nothing abnormal." He said that Huang Le is no longer working at Megaspeed.

In response to this controversy, Megaspeed told the New York Times that its current leadership takes this matter very seriously, has hired external consultants to conduct a thorough internal investigation, and is fully cooperating with the US government. Huang Le did not respond to a request for comment. Liu Chang, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, criticized the United States for launching a "baseless smear and slander" campaign against China. A reporter asked about the report at the regular press conference of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday (October 30). Spokesperson Guo Jiakun said that the relevant report is based on rumors and is purely slander and slander against China.