People familiar with a U.S. government memo said it described Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang as having had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based Nvidia customer Megaspeed.
American intelligence believes Alice Huang was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security, according to people familiar with the matter. People familiar with the memo said U.S. officials prepared it earlier in 2026 using intelligence information. The alleged relationship and recruitment have not been independently verified.
Nvidia declined to comment on the memo and the specific relationship allegation. The company has separately characterized Jensen Huang’s contacts with Alice Huang as routine business interactions.
Nvidia and China respond to the allegations
Nvidia said its chief executive speaks with thousands of customer executives each year and described Megaspeed as comparable to its other regional cloud customers. A company spokesperson said, “Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected.”
The company said those customers receive ordinary business information and do not receive sensitive Nvidia trade secrets or information relevant to national security. Those statements describe Nvidia’s position on what it shares with customers; they do not independently resolve the intelligence allegations.
Nvidia also said it regularly receives U.S. government updates about people and organizations of concern and acts on them. The company expressed confidence that the government would notify it if officials believed someone posed a threat to American industry.
China rejected the espionage accusations. At an October 30, 2026, press conference, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said, “Relevant reports are unsubstantiated. They are nothing but smears against China.”
Megaspeed’s chip dealings face separate scrutiny
Megaspeed’s corporate history predates its adoption of that name. It was incorporated in Singapore as 7Road International in 2015 and renamed Megaspeed in March 2023, when Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, became a managing director.
Ownership transferred to Huang Le Limited in March 2023 and then to Swiftdata that November. Alice Huang and fellow director Cang Yang had resigned as directors by November 10, 2023. Megaspeed established its Malaysian subsidiary Speedmatrix in early 2024.
Nvidia also rejected allegations that Megaspeed diverted chips to China in violation of U.S. export controls. A spokesperson said the company had investigated those allegations in 2025 and considered them debunked. Jensen Huang said on October 29, 2026, that the company had examined Megaspeed’s deployments and checked that its AI chips had not been illegally sent to China.
“We’ve studied all their deployments of our GPUs and counted every one,” Jensen Huang said. That account represents Nvidia’s assessment of its customer’s use of the hardware.
Singapore authorities have distinguished their investigation into Megaspeed from the allegations about Alice Huang. In an October 30 response, the Singapore Police Force said its Megaspeed investigation was ongoing and declined to provide further details.
On October 31, Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs said the government had not conducted investigations into Alice Huang’s alleged ties to Chinese intelligence or her relationship with Jensen Huang. It also denied that Singapore officials had expressed the concerns attributed to them about those alleged connections.
The police said Singapore does not implement other jurisdictions’ unilateral export controls, while also saying it does not condone businesses using their Singapore connections to circumvent those restrictions. Companies operating in Singapore are expected to consider other countries’ regulations in their international business activities, the police said.
House committee chairs request a briefing
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford requested a joint, closed-door briefing with Jensen Huang.
Their November 5, 2026, announcement said the proposed session would cover his interactions with Alice Huang and Nvidia’s safeguards against foreign espionage. The chairmen requested November 18 for the briefing and asked Huang to accept that date or propose an alternative by November 11.
The chairmen said the allegations raised national security concerns about access to sensitive U.S. technology and information. “It is vital that Congress determines the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk,” they wrote.
