NYT Alleges China Recruited AI Executive to Spy on Jensen Huang

The New York Times, citing a memo circulated among senior Trump administration officials, reports that U.S. intelligence has identified Alice Huang—a Chinese executive close to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—as a Beijing intelligence asset. Her company Megaspeed reportedly began multibillion-dollar Nvidia chip purchases in 2024 and rents Southeast Asian data-center capacity to Alibaba, allegedly creating a backdoor to restricted chips. The claim rests on an anonymous memo with no public evidence or response from the parties involved, so its factual strength is limited, though it touches Nvidia, export controls and U.S.-China tech rivalry.