Nvidia responds to report Jensen Huang was target of Chinese asset, says diversion allegations were 'investigated and debunked'

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, presents new NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX Pod Full-Stack Modular AI Factory as he gives a keynote address at the Berlin GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on October 21, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.

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An Nvidia spokesperson on Thursday pushed back on a New York Times report that detailed American intelligence agencies surveilling a person close to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang because they thought she could be a Chinese intelligence asset.

According to the Times report, which cited people briefed on intelligence surveillance, Alice Huang, who is linked to the Singapore-based cloud Megaspeed, developed a close relationship with Nvidia's Jensen Huang.

Intelligence agencies worried that she was a spy, helping the Chinese government gain information from Nvidia and Jensen Huang, and fretted that Nvidia's CEO had access to President Trump.

The Nvidia spokesperson pushed back on the story in a statement to CNBC, saying that Singapore-based Megaspeed is another one of the company's regional cloud customers, and that Jensen Huang's interactions with its officials are not unusual, because he speaks with thousands of customers every year.

The spokesperson added that customers don't get access to Nvidia trade secrets or relevant national security information.

The report also alleged that Megaspeed was previously suspected of helping companies evade U.S. export controls on Nvidia's AI chips, which aren't allowed to be shipped to China.

Nvidia said that Megaspeed had already been investigated for evading export controls.

"The diversion allegations against this regional cloud were thoroughly investigated and debunked last year," the spokesperson said in a statement.

Nvidia implied that the U.S. government had not briefed Nvidia on Alice Huang.

"We're confident that if the U.S. government believes that any person is a threat to American industry, it would let us know," the spokesperson said.