Tech executive Alice Huang is accused of spying for China during an affair with Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, according to media reports.
Also known as Huang Le, she reportedly held a senior position at Singapore-based data centre company Megaspeed International. Public details about her background remain limited.
Who is Alice Huang?
The New York Times, which first reported the alleged spy plot, said US officials believed Alice Huang had been recruited by Beijing to collect intelligence on the Nvidia chief.
Despite sharing a surname, she is not related to Jensen Huang, the 63-year-old Taiwanese-born head of the US artificial intelligence chipmaker.
The Times, citing people briefed on the surveillance, described her as fluent in English and well connected among senior figures in the global AI chip industry.
An online search also found a profile bearing her photograph on a Chinese fund database, listing previous jobs at HSBC and as a reporter for Chinese broadcasters CCTV and Hunan TV. AFP could not independently verify the profile or its authorship.
How are the pair connected?
Media reports last week described the pair as having a close relationship. Jensen Huang told Nvidia employees on Sunday he was “deeply sorry” for being “unfaithful to my wife”.
Photographs and livestream footage from industry events in 2024 and 2025 appeared to show the two together.
What is Megaspeed?
US officials concluded last year that Alice Huang was targeting Jensen Huang as a spy, according to The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
At the time, she was reportedly a senior executive at Megaspeed International, a company that rents computing power to businesses for training and running AI systems.
Megaspeed describes itself as “a core business partner of Nvidia's computing power cloud business in the Asia-Pacific region”. Its LinkedIn profile lists offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The company was previously known as 7Road International, according to Singapore government records, suggesting links to Chinese gaming company 7Road.
Has Megaspeed helped China evade US chip restrictions?
The US restricts exports of Nvidia's most advanced chips to China, citing national security concerns.
The New York Times reported that Washington had been investigating Megaspeed since 2024 over possible efforts to channel Nvidia chips to China. Singaporean authorities also reportedly investigated the company and questioned Alice Huang in 2025.
Bloomberg News reported last year on the Singapore investigation into alleged chip smuggling.
In December 2025, Megaspeed rejected Bloomberg's reporting, saying it “contains misleading information and incorrect insinuations, including suggestions that we may have been involved in illegal chip transfers”.
According to AFP, a phone number listed on Megaspeed's website was linked to a residential line, and the person who answered said they were unfamiliar with the company.
AFP also contacted Singapore police and the Home Affairs Ministry for comment, but received no response by the time of publication.
