US govt to probe Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's ties with alleged Chinese spy from S'pore-based company

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been facing questions from the United States government following reports that he developed a close relationship with a woman U.S. officials found to be a Chinese spy.

She has been accused of funnelling intelligence to Beijing from Jensen Huang, who has been close to U.S. President Donald Trump.

On Nov. 5, the Republican leaders of three committees under the House of Representatives sent a letter to Jensen Huang asking that he appear for joint, closed-door briefing on his interactions with the woman on Nov. 18.

"Recent reports raise significant national security concerns regarding the PRC [People's Republic of China]’s access to sensitive U.S. technology and information," they wrote in the letter.

"It is vital that Congress determines the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk."

The U.S. Senate will also take action.

On Nov. 8, Democratic Senator Chris Coons, who will chair the Senate committee on foreign relations from January 2027, wrote on X that "Congress will investigate and get answers" about "the insane relationship between the Trump Administration, Chinese spies, and AI billionaires".

In a tweet under this, he shared a New York Times' report that a woman was recruited as a spy by China’s Ministry of State Security to target Jensen Huang.

Their relationship

The woman, Alice Huang (no relation), is a Chinese citizen and an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based customer and cloud partner of Nvidia.

The company has been under investigation in the U.S. for allegedly violating export laws and smuggling Nvidia's AI chips to China.

According to The Financial Times, the U.S. government believes that the pair were romantically involved.

Since June 2024, they have been seen and photographed together in public, sometimes with other tech executives in Taipei.

Responses to the allegations

Nvidia spokesperson John Rizzo declined to share whether Jensen Huang would appear at the briefing on Nov. 18, The New York Times reported.

"Our chief executive has an outstanding security team that accompanies him where needed," the spokesperson said.

He had previously released a statement saying that Jensen Huang and Alice Huang's meetings "are not unusual or unexpected", adding that "meetings with customers are part of a CEO's job".

Jensen Huang himself responded similarly in a Bloomberg interview on Oct. 29.

He called his company's dealings with Megaspeed "normal and not unusual".

"We’ve studied all their deployments of our GPUs and counted every one," he said. "And I think the US government also has as well."

On Oct. 30, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun denied the allegations of targeting Jensen Huang for intelligence, calling such reports a "smear" against China.