A controversy has erupted in American technology and politics following reports that technology billionaire Jensen Huang, 63, admitted to the board that he had a personal romantic relationship with a Chinese woman named Alice Huang, and publicly apologised to his wife and children. The report says U.S. intelligence and investigative agencies, the CIA and FBI, regard her as a spy acting for the government in Beijing.
According to claims arising from a U.S. intelligence investigation that tracked the matter for more than a year, Alice Huang was sent by China’s Ministry of State Security to use a romantic entanglement to obtain confidential information about Nvidia’s advanced AI chip technology. The report describes the suspect as a senior executive at Megaspeed, a major exclusive Nvidia customer that has ordered AI chips from Nvidia since 2024 for data centres valued at up to US$4.8 billion.
Although Nvidia’s board says there is no evidence that confidential data was leaked, the head of one of the world’s largest technology companies becoming caught in a foreign espionage honey trap, as alleged by the United States, is a “highly sensitive issue” for the company.
The report describes Jensen Huang as a vital “backbone” of Nvidia and a close friend of U.S. President Donald Trump. It says that although the scandal will not bring Nvidia down, it has badly tarnished the reputation Huang spent years building.
In response, however, China categorically rejected the allegations, calling them “fabrication and baseless distortion”. Article: Rithy
