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The New York Times reported that a Chinese female entrepreneur around Huang Jen-hsun was suspected of passing information to Beijing; Huang Jen-hsun and Huida denied inappropriate contact and insisted that it was just a routine customer interaction.
The New York Times exclusively reported on the 29th that artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant NvidiaHuida (also translated as NVIDIA) FounderJen-Hsun Huang (Jensen Huang) China has becomedetective The Internet targeted Alice Huang or Huang Le, a Chinese businesswoman with close ties to Huang Jen-hsun and a senior executive at Singapore-based cloud service provider MegaSpeed, who was discovered by US authorities as a Chinese intelligence agent responsible for delivering messages to Beijing. President Trump was briefed about the findings nearly a year ago, but later chose to remain silent.
The report notes that Washington has been working hard to prevent China from overtaking or surpassing the United States in the fierce global competition in artificial intelligence (AI) development for several years. The discovery that Beijing was able to obtain intelligence through a person with direct access to Huang Jen-hsun alarmed the White House.
Trump is wary of disrupting Huawei’s chip sales, which help boost the economy and stock market, and further complicating trade relations with China.
US officials had previously been suspicious of Huang Le, suspecting that he had helped China evade sanctions and obtain advanced AI chips. However, Huang Le’s direct message to Beijing has made US officials even more uneasy as Huang has direct knowledge of some of Trump’s key issues related to relations with China, some of which may be raised during Trump’s visit to China next month.
Another question is whether Huang Le is collecting intelligence on Huida. After all, Huida represents the United States’ leading position in developing cutting-edge AI models more than any other company.
People familiar with the matter said that so far, Huang has not received any reminder briefing from US officials. American citizens targeted by foreign intelligence agencies sometimes receive briefings. Officials said that the US surveillance of Huang Le is still ongoing, and companies related to Huang Le are still purchasing Huida chips this year.
Huida told The New York Times that MegaSpeed, which hired Huang Le, was no different from Huida’s other clients in this area. Earlier, the media had reported that Singapore companies were smuggling chips into China. Huida later conducted an internal investigation and issued a statement denying it.
In an interview with Bloomberg News on the 29th, Huang Renxun said that the relationship between Huida and MegaSpeed’s senior management was not inappropriate, and the company had also investigated to confirm that MegaSpeed did not illegally send Huida’s AI processors to China.
“We’ve studied all the GPUs they’ve deployed, every single one of them,” he said. “I think the U.S. government has done the same thing.”
Huang Zhenxun described his conversation with Huang Le as simply routine, in the same way he usually deals with Chinese customers and corporate executives. He also said that Huang Le had left MegaSpeed and that the US government had not informed him of its suspicions about Huang Le.
Huang Le is a Chinese female entrepreneur and investor who later became a senior executive at MegaSpeed. In the final days of the Biden administration, the US Commerce Department suspected that MegaSpeed secretly helped China avoid sanctions and obtain Huida chip computing power. Huang Le was released after investigation in Singapore in 2025.
Huida spokesman John Rizzo said there was nothing unusual in Huang’s conversation with Huang Le. Meeting customers is part of the CEO’s job, and Huang talks to thousands of customers every year.
