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

Report describes access to Huang

The New York Times reported that U.S. officials concluded Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, gained access to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. She was a former executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based cloud computing company suspected of gathering intelligence for the Chinese government.

Megaspeed bought Nvidia chips to build data centers and rent computing capacity. The company has drawn scrutiny from U.S. agencies, according to the report.

Nvidia calls meetings routine

Nvidia said Jensen Huang meets thousands of customer executives each year. The company described his meetings with Alice Huang as neither unusual nor unexpected. The report said U.S. officials were concerned about the sensitive information she might have obtained from the head of the world's largest chipmaker. Huang had also held discussions with President Donald Trump about artificial intelligence and export controls.

Trump was reportedly briefed

The Times reported that Trump was briefed about the situation about a year earlier but took no action. At the time, U.S. officials reportedly did not think Jensen Huang knew Alice Huang was collecting intelligence for China.

The report said it was unclear whether intelligence officials had since changed that assessment. Nvidia characterized diversion allegations as having been investigated and debunked.