A memo circulated this year and reported on by the New York Times and Financial Times claims China's Ministry of State Security recruited Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The Financial Times additionally reported the memo alleged a romantic relationship between the two. Nvidia told the New York Times that Jensen Huang's contact with Alice Huang was 'not unusual' and that it does not share classified information with customers.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-11-07
US lawmakers have called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to testify before Congress regarding concerns about potential Chinese espionage tied to the company's chip sales and operations. The summons signals heightened scrutiny of Nvidia's dealings with China amid broader US national security reviews of advanced semiconductor exports.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-11-06
The New York Times reported that US intelligence identified Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based data center firm Megaspeed, as a possible operative for the Chinese government who had built a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Officials were already surveilling her over alleged illegal sales of advanced Nvidia chips to China, including to buyers linked to Alibaba, when they discovered she may also have been passing information to Beijing. Nvidia says Jensen Huang's contact with her was routine customer engagement and no sensitive information was shared.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-29
Nvidia responded to a New York Times report alleging CEO Jensen Huang's interactions with Megaspeed executive Ms. Huang raised espionage concerns, saying such meetings are routine customer engagements involving no sensitive trade secrets. Megaspeed said it is taking the allegations seriously, has hired outside counsel to investigate, and has notified U.S. authorities of its cooperation.
slashdot.org
· 2026-10-29
The New York Times reports that Alice Huang, who presents herself as CEO of chip buyer Megaspeed and was briefly listed as its managing director before being removed from that role, is suspected by US officials of acting as a Chinese government intelligence asset. She was photographed sitting close to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang in 2024 around the time Megaspeed began making large chip purchases, and the Times says she remains under surveillance. According to the report, Jensen Huang was never given a standard 'defensive briefing' warning him he may have been targeted.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-29
The New York Times reports that US intelligence briefed Trump roughly a year ago about suspicions that Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen and former Megaspeed executive, had gained direct access to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and was relaying information to Beijing. Officials reportedly suspected she had also helped China skirt export controls to obtain advanced Nvidia chips, but Trump chose not to act on the intelligence, according to sources briefed on the matter.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-29
The New York Times reports that U.S. intelligence agencies spent roughly a year surveilling Alice Huang, a senior executive at Singapore-based AI cloud firm Megaspeed, over concerns she may have been a Chinese intelligence asset. Huang had appeared alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at business dinners in Singapore, and Megaspeed was separately investigated by the Commerce Department in 2025 for allegedly reselling restricted Nvidia chips to Chinese buyers in violation of export rules.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-29
Nvidia pushed back on a New York Times report claiming US intelligence agencies surveilled a woman, Alice Huang, linked to Singapore-based cloud firm Megaspeed, over concerns she could be a Chinese intelligence asset close to CEO Jensen Huang. Nvidia said Megaspeed is simply a regional cloud customer and that prior allegations it helped evade US export controls on Nvidia chips were investigated and found baseless last year. The company also said customers do not get access to trade secrets or national security information.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-29
At GTC Berlin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said running the company's AI agent software on each GPU costs roughly $2,000 per year, calling software licensing an increasingly major part of Nvidia's business. The figure, reported by The Register, is lower than Nvidia's existing AI Enterprise suite pricing of $4,500 per GPU annually, or $3,600 under a five-year deal, and it remains unclear how the two pricing schemes relate or when the new figure might take effect.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-26
Nvidia has built an extensive financing role in the AI buildout, including roughly $36 billion in off-balance-sheet cloud agreement backstops and guarantees worth up to $105 billion tied to a proposed OpenAI data center in Ohio. Shares of neocloud partners CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN have each fallen at least 30% this month as credit markets tighten, putting Nvidia's financing commitments under scrutiny.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-24
A video of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang demonstrating small robotic Microducks at the GTC Berlin keynote went viral, and preorders surpassed 20,000 units within a day, according to Hugging Face co-founder Clem Delangue. The Microducks are open-source robots made by Pollen Robotics, a company Hugging Face acquired in 2025; Nvidia itself acquired Hugging Face in September. The devices were trained using Nvidia's technology stack and ship with basic tricks like walking and sitting, with owners able to teach and share new behaviors.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-23
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC at the GTC conference in Berlin that demand for neocloud providers is extremely high, but a shortage of working capital is restraining their expansion. He said demand for capital far exceeds its availability, though he expects the imbalance to resolve over time. Huang also pointed to energy scarcity in Europe as a key constraint, naming Nebius and Mistral as firms whose growth depends on securing power allocation.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-22
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