From nursing school to Nvidia’s billionaire boss lover: The mysterious rise of alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang – as her past vanishes

The article reconstructs the reported rise of Alice Huang, a Chinese woman accused by US intelligence of being recruited to approach Nvidia chief Jensen Huang. It says traces of her past are disappearing from Chinese platforms, while accounts from people who knew her describe a path from nursing studies and informal television work to finance and technology circles. China has denied the espionage allegations, and Huang has not been charged.

Sources cited by the article say Huang, also known as Huang Le, attended school in Hunan, may have studied at Hunan Normal University, and later became an executive and equity partner at Shanghai Hexi Investment. She is said to have met investor Kang Wei, who reportedly introduced her to Jensen Huang through business ties dating to the 2010s. By 2023 she held a senior role at Singapore-based Megaspeed, which bought billions of dollars of Nvidia chips; the firm denies diverting restricted chips to China, and US and Singapore investigations have been launched. The article says investigators still want to establish whether and when Huang became part of any intelligence operation.