# Alice Huang **Alice Huang**, also known by her Chinese name **Huang Le**, is a Chinese citizen and a founding executive of [[Megaspeed]], a Singapore company that became one of [[NVIDIA]]'s largest customers in Southeast Asia. U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that she had been recruited by China's spy service, the [[MSS]], and that she developed a close relationship with NVIDIA's chief executive, [[Jensen Huang]]. He admitted to an affair with her on November 8, 2026, and resigned four days later. She is not related to him. Everything said about her intelligence work comes from U.S. officials speaking anonymously to reporters about classified findings. She has not been charged with anything, no evidence has been made public, and China calls the accusation baseless. She has not answered reporters' requests for comment, and no statement from her or a lawyer acting for her has been published. ## Career Before she went into business, Alice Huang worked as a reporter for Chinese state media. In 2023 she helped set up Megaspeed when the Chinese gaming company 7Road split off its overseas business in Singapore, and Singapore filings list her as the company's managing director for its first months. She was photographed with Jensen Huang at business dinners and industry events in Taipei and Singapore while Megaspeed was committing to billions of dollars of NVIDIA purchases. Singaporean authorities questioned her in 2025 during their investigation of Megaspeed. ## What U.S. officials say - **Surveillance.** U.S. intelligence agencies had been monitoring her electronically for at least a year before the *[[New York Times]]* first reported on October 29, 2026 that they had concluded she was passing information to Beijing. The *Times* also reported that President [[Donald Trump]] was briefed on the findings about a year earlier. - **The memo.** In the spring of 2026, Secretary of State [[Marco Rubio]] oversaw a highly classified memo, built on that surveillance, warning a small group of senior officials that Jensen Huang was close to a Chinese intelligence operative. It identified her as an MSS recruit whose task was to gather intelligence on him and on American AI chips. The *Financial Times* reported that the memo described the relationship as romantic. For the full sequence, see [[Jensen Huang Espionage Allegations 2026]]. ## Why it's on the map If the U.S. account is right, this is one of the most consequential intelligence operations against an American company in years: an approach not to an engineer or a contractor but to the chief executive of the company that makes the hardware the AI race runs on, while he was lobbying Washington to let him sell more of it in China. If it is wrong, it is a case in which classified accusations, leaked anonymously, ended the career of the most important executive in the industry without a charge being filed. Either way it shows how much the contest over AI chips now runs through personal access. ## See Also - [[Jensen Huang Espionage Allegations 2026]] - [[Megaspeed]] · [[NVIDIA]] · [[Jensen Huang]] - [[MSS]] — China's Ministry of State Security - [[GPU Export Controls]]