An affair with the head of Nvidia turns into a nightmare that threatens American national security - Wall Street Journal

We begin our tour with the Wall Street Journal, which published an article by Robbie Whelan and Amrith Ramkumar in which they discussed the extent of the threat that Nvidia, the giant artificial intelligence processors, may pose to American national security.

The authors say that NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, was in Taipei in June 2024 to participate in an annual computer industry exhibition.

During one of the evenings that brought together a number of CEOs of technology sector companies, Alice Huang, who was then holding a leadership position in the Singaporean data center company Megaspeed, suggested that she could convince Jensen Huang to join them. One of the attendees quoted her as saying: 'Jensen is a dear friend of mine.' Minutes after she sent her a text message, Huang showed up at the scene before later leaving alone, according to the article.

But this incident later turned into a security issue. Several months later, US authorities launched an investigation into whether Megaspeed had, in violation of the law, transferred artificial intelligence chips from NVIDIA to China, while authorities in Taiwan and Singapore opened investigations into Alice Huang's possible links to China.

Nvidia management said last Sunday that it had opened an investigation to find out whether Jensen Huang had been subjected to an attempted targeting by a foreign intelligence service, after media reports emerged stating that the US government concluded that Alice Huang was transmitting information to Chinese intelligence at the time she was in a relationship with the company's CEO. The board of directors added that “there is nothing to suggest that national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised.”

In an internal memo, Huang apologized for his 'betrayal' of his family and colleagues, saying: 'I love our country and our company', after admitting that he had a romantic relationship with Alice. The case coincided with a widespread debate within the Trump administration regarding artificial intelligence policies and technological competition with China. It also raised questions about the influence of Nvidia, which pushed hard to allow it to sell advanced electronic chips to China.

Nvidia shares fell 5.5 percent last Tuesday. Reports also indicate that the company stopped all sales and shipments to Megaspeed in June 2025, while American investigations continued regarding suspicions of smuggling chips into China and possible ties between Alice Huang and Chinese intelligence services, according to the article.