NYT reports US intelligence identified a Megaspeed executive as a Chinese intelligence asset; Nvidia and China reject the allegations

On October 29 The New York Times reported that US intelligence had identified Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore data-center operator Megaspeed, as a Chinese intelligence asset with a close relationship to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The report says President Trump was briefed about a year ago but took no action, and Jensen Huang was not warned. The US government had already suspected Megaspeed of helping China obtain Nvidia chips: between June 2024 and February 2026 its Malaysian affiliate bought at least $4.8bn of Nvidia-based hardware. Nvidia said diversion allegations had been investigated and debunked; Jensen Huang called the business relationship normal and said Alice Huang has left Megaspeed. Megaspeed announced an internal investigation, and the Chinese embassy called the report "groundless smears".

The first report we collected was on 2026-10-29 (Beijing time), the latest on 2026-10-30: 10-29 4 reports, 10-30 5 reports. It was #9 in the 2026-W44 weekly report (2026-10-26 – 2026-11-01).

Earlier weekly hotspots about NVIDIA: 2026-W42 — NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops launch, bringing GB10 to Windows PCs; 2026-W43 — DeepSeek open-sources its DeepInfer inference engine, with NVIDIA and Huawei Ascend support; 2026-W44 — Report: US Justice Department questions Nvidia's $12.9bn Hugging Face deal. Each has its own page linked in “the story so far” above.

13 outlets covered it. The earliest report we collected is “Nvidia Chief, Jensen Huang, Is Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot” (NYT, 2026-10-29 Beijing time). Sources include NYT, Tom's Hardware, The Decoder, CNBC, Tom's Guide. Labels: Unconfirmed — Reported by media citing unnamed sources; no official confirmation yet. Disputed — Parties dispute the facts or interpretation; read the sources on both sides. All 9 source links are listed on this page in date order.