Nvidia CEO Admits Affair With Former Megaspeed Executive Suspected of Spying

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to cheating on his wife. The New York Times reports about his relationship with Alice Huang (Huang Le), a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed. U.S. intelligence suspects she may have been recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to keep tabs on the head of one of the world’s most valuable tech companies.

Alice Huang is a Chinese citizen. She served as Megaspeed’s managing director for the company’s first eight months, then removed her name from its corporate filings. Megaspeed itself is a Singapore data center company and was a major Nvidia customer. Tom’s Hardware also flagged gaps in Alice Huang’s background: reporters couldn’t verify her claimed experience in media and banking.

U.S. authorities had their eye on Megaspeed long before the Huang scandal. They suspect the company helped China get advanced Nvidia AI chips around export controls. Trade records show Megaspeed’s Malaysian sister company bought at least $4.8 billion worth of equipment containing Nvidia technology between June 2024 and February 2026. In late 2024, a U.S. Commerce Department official visited the company’s Malaysian data center and found the site suspicious, with some Nvidia hardware still sitting in boxes.

The first warning signs came last year. In October 2025, Republican Senator Tom Cotton urged the Commerce Department to investigate Megaspeed. Around the same time, according to The New York Times, President Donald Trump was briefed on a possible Chinese intelligence operation involving Huang. Earlier in 2026, a memo circulated among U.S. policymakers claiming that China’s Ministry of State Security had recruited Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia’s CEO. In June, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Huang to testify before the Senate.

The story went public in a big way on October 29, 2026, when The New York Times published a major investigation. The Financial Times followed with its own report, saying U.S. intelligence believes Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang. The two had been seen together more than once. She appeared in a LinkedIn post alongside Huang and other executives, and about a year later she was spotted behind him as he left a restaurant in Taiwan.

Nvidia initially denied everything. The company said Huang meets with thousands of customer executives every year and that those conversations never touch trade secrets or national security information. China called the espionage claims “groundless smears and slanders.”

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Things changed on November 8. In an internal memo to employees, Huang admitted to the affair:

“I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.”

He also acknowledged that he had fallen short of his responsibility to the company. The same day, Nvidia’s board announced an independent investigation, which independent directors will run with outside legal counsel. The board said it has “no reason to believe” national security or company secrets were compromised and expressed confidence in Huang and his leadership team. Huang said he fully supports the review and will cooperate with it.

Congress is already paying attention. On November 4, the chairs of three House committees asked Huang for a closed-door briefing on November 18, the day after Nvidia reports quarterly earnings. They are Brian Mast of the Foreign Affairs Committee, John Moolenaar of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Rick Crawford of the Intelligence Committee. Elizabeth Warren has also renewed her call for Huang to testify before the Senate.

It’s still unclear whether Alice Huang actually worked for Chinese intelligence or had access to any sensitive information. The Nvidia board’s investigation and the congressional inquiries should provide some answers.