FT "US determines that Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy"

Britain's Financial Times (FT) reported on the 7th (local time) that the U.S. government is determining that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with a female businesswoman suspected of being recruited by Chinese intelligence agencies as a spy.

According to sources cited by the FT, U.S. officials wrote a memo with this content based on intelligence obtained by intelligence agencies early this year.

The memo contained information that Jensen Huang was in a romantic relationship with Alice Huang (Chinese name Huang Le), an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center company.

U.S. intelligence officials believe that Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen, was recruited as a spy by the Ministry of State Security (MSS), China's key intelligence agency.

The New York Times (NYT) also reported that the memo contained intelligence that Alice Huang was a spy for China's Ministry of State Security, and that she was recruited to collect information about Jensen Huang.

It is reported that Chinese intelligence agencies collected information on American artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors through Alice Huang and attempted to influence NVIDIA to supply cutting-edge semiconductors to China.

The memo was shared with a small number of top U.S. government officials just before President Donald Trump visited China in May for a summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the FT reported.

Nvidia declined to comment on the relationship between the two and the U.S. government memo. However, Jensen Huang previously revealed that “we meet with thousands of client executives every year.”

The White House and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) also declined to comment, and Alice Huang could not be reached for comment, the FT said.

Jensen Huang and Alice Huang were also photographed together with other artificial intelligence (AI) company executives at a bar in Taipei, Taiwan in June 2024.

Megaspeed, to which Alice Huang belongs, has been under investigation by U.S. authorities on suspicion of smuggling Nvidia's cutting-edge semiconductors into China in violation of U.S. export control measures. NVIDIA determined that there was no evidence of misconduct after its own investigation.