Nvidia’s CEO Admits an Affair With an Alleged Chinese Spy as the Company’s Lawyer Is Reported to Have Intervened in the Megaspeed Chip Probe
November 10, 2026. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told employees on Sunday that he had been unfaithful to his wife, with a woman U.S. intelligence officials reportedly believe was working for Chinese intelligence. Nvidia’s board has opened an independent investigation. A day later, Bloomberg reported that Nvidia’s general counsel had separately contacted the Commerce Department about its export-control probe of the woman’s company.
No one has been charged. The espionage claim rests on unnamed U.S. officials and a reported classified memo, Beijing calls it baseless, and Nvidia’s board says it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised. This page keeps what is documented apart from what is alleged.
- Nov. 18closed-door briefingDate three House Republican chairs asked Huang to appear before lawmakers, per CNBC.
- 50,000chips undercountedUnits sold to Megaspeed through hardware partners that trade records show Nvidia's tabulations to the government missed, per Bloomberg.
- 17,544GB300 processorsImported into Malaysia by Megaspeed in November 2025, worth roughly $787 million, per Malaysian trade records cited by Bloomberg.
In an email to staff on Sunday, Nov. 8, Jensen Huang wrote, per CNBC: “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did.” He added that he was “proud and grateful” to be an American. CNN and Yahoo Finance identify the woman as Alice Huang, reportedly no relation to him, an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based cloud company that buys Nvidia chips; outlets differ on whether she still holds that post.
The New York Times reported in late October 2026 that U.S. officials believed she cultivated Huang on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security, and the Financial Times described a classified memo, per secondary summaries of both. Those summaries say officials do not believe Huang knew. Bloomberg reports that China has dismissed the accusation as baseless “smears.” The board’s statement said it “has no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised,” and that its inquiry “will examine all available information,” per CNBC. An Nvidia spokesperson said Huang is committed to continuing as CEO.
Jensen Huang remains Nvidia CEO as the board opens an independent investigation into whether he was the subject of a foreign intelligence operation. In a staff memo, Huang admitted an affair with Alice Huang, a former executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based Nvidia customer.
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Megaspeed has been under U.S. scrutiny since at least October 2025, when the Times first reported that the government was looking into it. Malaysian trade records show Megaspeed imported at least 17,544 Nvidia GB300 processors in November 2025, worth roughly $787 million, per Bloomberg. Megaspeed denies diverting chips and says Singapore’s probe “concluded earlier this year with no adverse action.”
The gap Bloomberg describes is in the accounting. In mid-November 2025, Nvidia told the outlet its inventory checks showed everything where it should be. Trade records, Bloomberg reports, show Nvidia’s tabulations to the government undercounted chips sold to Megaspeed through hardware partners by 50,000 units, worth billions of dollars. In December, pressed again, Nvidia said it had checked additional warehouses holding the missing hardware, without giving counts. Megaspeed uses 12 facilities owned by eight companies in three Southeast Asian countries; two operators told Bloomberg they did not have its hardware, and its largest data-center landlord has dropped it as a tenant. Megaspeed remains an official Nvidia Cloud Partner.
According to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, Nvidia general counsel Tim Teter called Commerce Under Secretary for Industry and Security Jeffrey Kessler, who oversees U.S. chip export curbs, in late summer 2025 to ask about the Megaspeed investigation. He asked whether the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) was involved in Singapore’s detention of Alice Huang; BIS was not, per the sources. Singapore police had questioned her and barred her from leaving the country. It is unclear whether Teter made any specific request, per Bloomberg. An Nvidia spokesperson said Teter “was unaware of the affair at the time he called Kessler.”
Weeks later, sources told Bloomberg, BIS staff were told to route all Nvidia requests through Kessler or get his approval, a step they say is unique to Nvidia, and not to mention Megaspeed or its Malaysian subsidiary, Speedmatrix, in external communications. When Teter emailed staff directly seeking a meeting, an employee declined and forwarded the email to Kessler, who told them to keep handling the case by the book. In late 2025, the Justice Department asked BIS to pause its efforts; the sources say BIS has made no progress since, though it has enough evidence to proceed. A BIS spokesperson said it “conducts all enforcement strictly by the book,” and that enforcement is at an all-time high. Nvidia says it consults with officials to answer questions and request guidance.
Three House Republican chairs, John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the China Select Committee, Brian Mast (R-FL) of Foreign Affairs and Rick Crawford (R-AR) of Intelligence, wrote Huang on Nov. 4 asking for a closed-door briefing on Nov. 18 about his contacts with Alice Huang and Nvidia’s safeguards against foreign intelligence. It is a request, not a subpoena, and Huang has until Nov. 11 to answer, per The Next Web citing Semafor. Nvidia reports third-quarter earnings Nov. 17.
Congress calls on NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to brief lawmakers on China intelligence links, to explain his contacts with an alleged Chinese spy. Their letter follows a New York Times report that US agencies concluded Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore data center firm…
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Documented: Huang’s written admission of an affair; the board’s independent investigation and its no-compromise statement; the Nov. 4 House letter; Malaysian import records.
Reported, unconfirmed: that Alice Huang was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security; the Teter-Kessler contacts and the later restrictions on BIS staff; the DOJ request to pause. All rest on unnamed sources.
Not established: any charge against anyone, any leak of Nvidia secrets, any export-law violation by Nvidia or Megaspeed, or any finding by the board.
The affair is admitted. The spying, the lawyer’s calls and the stalled chip probe are reported by unnamed sources and unproven. The tests are the board’s findings, the Nov. 18 briefing, and whether the Megaspeed case moves.
