Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang faces scrutiny over ties to Alice Huang amid intelligence allegations

US authorities are investigating whether a Chinese businesswoman with ties to Jensen Huang helped divert export-controlled AI chips to China. Nvidia’s board has launched an independent investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang’s personal relationship with a Chinese businesswoman exposed the company to a foreign intelligence operation. The probe, initiated on November 8, 2026, follows a Reuters report linking Huang to Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, whose Singapore-based cloud-computing firm Megaspeed International allegedly purchased billions of dollars in Nvidia’s export-controlled chips. The timing is awkward, to put it mildly. The board opened its inquiry the same day Jensen Huang sent a memo to employees acknowledging personal indiscretions. Who is Alice Huang, and what is Megaspeed? Alice Huang built her career in Chinese finance, holding senior positions at a Shanghai investment firm before surfacing as the controlling shareholder of Megaspeed International, a Singapore-registered cloud-computing company. That transition, from mainland finance to a chip-buying operation at the center of a US national security inquiry, is what caught investigators’ attention. According ...