Trump Took No Action After Briefing on Nvidia CEO’s Contacts With Alleged Chinese Agent

President Donald Trump received an intelligence briefing about a year ago on Megaspeed executive Alice Huang’s contacts with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and took no action, as investigators examined possible chip diversion to China.

U.S. intelligence assessed that Alice Huang was a Chinese intelligence operative and that surveillance showed she passed information to Beijing. Investigators also examined whether she helped move advanced Nvidia AI chips to China. U.S. authorities have not accused Jensen Huang of knowing about or assisting Chinese intelligence activity, or of sharing confidential information.

Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company, buys Nvidia chips in Southeast Asia, builds data centers and rents computing capacity to Chinese companies. U.S. officials view such operations as a potential way for Chinese firms to access computing resources subject to U.S. restrictions. Investigators suspect some chips may have been diverted illegally.

A Malaysian Megaspeed affiliate bought at least $4.8 billion in advanced AI equipment containing Nvidia chips and technology between June 2024 and February 2026. The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) opened an investigation in late 2024 and visited data centers in Malaysia, where officials found Nvidia equipment still boxed. Singapore authorities questioned Alice Huang in 2025 and released her. The investigation moved to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2026.

Current and former U.S. officials said proposals to further limit overseas sales of Nvidia chips and impose sanctions stalled at DOC amid Trump’s close relationship with Jensen Huang. The Nvidia CEO has pressed the administration to ease AI rules and restrictions on chip sales to China. The U.S. agreed to collect 25% of revenue from sales of some Nvidia chips cleared for export to China.

John Rizzo, an Nvidia spokesperson, characterized Jensen Huang’s interactions with Alice Huang as routine customer business and said Megaspeed had received no company secrets or national security information. Nvidia said it found no evidence of chips being smuggled into China. Megaspeed’s current leadership said it hired outside lawyers to investigate and would cooperate with U.S. authorities. Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Chang rejected the U.S. claims as an unfounded attack on China.

The Trump administration is weighing whether to tighten rules for offshore data centers that remotely provide computing capacity.