# Startling rise of ‘Chinese spy’ Alice Huang – the former reporter who became the world’s biggest buyer of Nvidia chips

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/startling-rise-of-chinese-spy-alice-huang-the-former-reporter-who-became-the-worlds-biggest-buyer-of-nvidia-chips/
- Published: 2026-11-10T04:02:41+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T04:19:59+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-16279435/ANDY-JEHRING-reporter-buyer-Nvidia-chips.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: AI, Asia, Entertainment, Technology, TV, World

## Key points

- Alice Huang faces allegations of spying for China.
- A Malaysian firm imported £3.6 billion of AI equipment.
- US investigators suspect some chips were headed for China.

## Summary

Alice Huang, a former Chinese television reporter who built an AI data centre business, is at the centre of claims that she used her connections with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to help obtain advanced chips. US intelligence officials reportedly told policymakers they believed she was working for China’s Ministry of State Security to gather information and influence access to American AI technology; these are allegations, and the article says she has not responded.

After US export restrictions on advanced AI chips to China began in October 2022, Huang acquired a dormant Chinese games company and turned it into Megaspeed International, which became a major Nvidia chip buyer in south-east Asia. A Malaysian sister company later imported £3.6 billion of AI equipment, despite having a cash balance more than a thousand times smaller, prompting a US Commerce Department investigation into suspected diversion to China. Jensen Huang was photographed with Alice Huang in 2024 and 2025, later admitted to being unfaithful to his wife, and was also reported to have pressed Donald Trump to ease some chip-sale restrictions.

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