Three US House committee chairs have asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to answer questions behind closed doors on November 18. They want to know about his contacts with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive whom US intelligence reportedly believes worked for Beijing. Huang has until November 11 to accept or propose another date.
The request came days before a new claim raised the stakes. The Financial Times reported that a US government memo describes a romantic relationship between the two. The FT cited people familiar with the memo. Nobody has charged either person with a crime, and the two are not related.
What the reports say
The New York Times broke the first part of the story on October 29. It reported that US officials had concluded Alice Huang was a Chinese intelligence asset with a “close relationship” with Jensen Huang. According to the Times, she passed information to officials in Beijing.
US spy agencies had watched her for about a year because of her ties to China, the Times reported. Officials feared she could learn about Nvidia’s plans. They did not believe Jensen Huang knew she might be gathering information for China. The paper also said President Donald Trump was briefed on the findings and took no action.
The FT then added a new claim. Its report says the memo states that US intelligence believes China’s Ministry of State Security recruited Alice Huang. The memo was reportedly prepared earlier this year. A small group of senior officials saw it shortly before Trump’s trip to Beijing. The Times had described the relationship as close but did not call it romantic.
As HuffPost noted in its write-up of both reports, neither newspaper has accused Jensen Huang of wrongdoing. The intelligence behind the memo is not public.
How each side has responded
Nvidia
Nvidia declined to comment on the memo, according to HuffPost. The company has defended the contacts in general terms. A spokesperson told ABC News that Huang “talks with thousands of customer executives every year.” The spokesperson added that “meetings with customers are part of a CEO’s job.”
Nvidia also told the Times that it does not share classified information with customers, as TechCrunch reported. Spokesman John Rizzo told Semafor the company expects Washington to warn it about any threat. “We’re confident that if the U.S. government believes that any person is a threat to American industry, it would let us know,” he said, per The Next Web.
China, Megaspeed and Alice Huang
China rejected the story. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun called the reports “baseless and purely slanderous smears against China,” ABC News reported. Megaspeed has hired outside lawyers to examine the claims, according to The Next Web. Neither Alice Huang nor Megaspeed answered ABC News’ request for comment.
Why Megaspeed matters
The spy claims sit on top of an older export control question. Megaspeed is a Singapore company that buys Nvidia chips, builds data centers and rents out computing power. US officials have examined whether it helped China obtain restricted Nvidia chips. Both Megaspeed and Nvidia deny any smuggling.
The Times first reported on the company in October 2025. That report said Megaspeed split from a Chinese gaming company in 2023. Alice Huang served as managing director for its first eight months and called herself CEO, per a GIGAZINE summary of the Times report. US Commerce Department officials and Singapore police were investigating the firm at the time.
Later Times reporting, summarized by Mothership, said a Megaspeed sister company bought at least $4.8 billion in advanced AI equipment from 2024 to 2026. A 2024 US inspection of its Malaysia data center reportedly found equipment “still in boxes.” Singapore questioned Alice Huang in 2025 and then released her. Nvidia told the Times it had verified that Megaspeed has no Chinese shareholders.
The Singapore billing gap
Singapore plays a big role in Nvidia’s books. In the fiscal year that ended in January 2025, customers billed in Singapore made up 18% of Nvidia’s revenue, about $24 billion. Products actually shipped there made up less than 2%, about $473 million, according to CNBC. In other words, a billing address does not show where the chips end up.
Timeline of the Megaspeed and Alice Huang case
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Megaspeed spins off from a Chinese gaming company and sets up in Singapore |
| 2024 | Alice Huang is pictured with Jensen Huang; US inspectors visit the Malaysia data center |
| 2025 | Singapore questions Alice Huang; the Times reports on the Megaspeed probe in October |
| Early 2026 | US memo is prepared and shared with senior officials before Trump’s Beijing trip |
| October 29, 2026 | New York Times reports the intelligence asset allegation |
| November 5, 2026 | House chairs ask Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing |
| November 6, 2026 | Financial Times reports the memo’s romance claim |
| November 11, 2026 | Deadline for Huang to reply to Congress |
| November 18, 2026 | Requested briefing date |
What Congress wants to know
The letter comes from John Moolenaar of the House China Select Committee, Brian Mast of Foreign Affairs and Rick Crawford of the Intelligence Committee. According to the committee’s announcement, they will ask about his contacts with Alice Huang. They also want details of Nvidia’s defenses against foreign espionage.
“It is vital that Congress determines the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk,” the chairs wrote.
Huang has turned down Congress before. In June, he declined Senator Elizabeth Warren’s invitation to testify about Nvidia’s chip sales to China, The Next Web reported. Nvidia did not tell Semafor whether he will attend this time.
What remains unclear
Several gaps stand out. The public has not seen the memo or the intelligence behind it. Nobody has said what information, if any, reached Beijing. Nvidia has also not addressed the romance claim directly.
The political backdrop adds weight. ABC News describes Huang as a close Trump ally who has advised him on the AI race with China. In January, he persuaded Trump to allow some advanced chip sales to China, a deal that gave the US government 25% of the profits. The next public signal is Huang’s reply to Congress, due November 11.
