“An Nvidia spokesperson pushed back on a New York Times report that U.S. intelligence agencies surveilled a person close to Jensen Huang over suspicions she could be a Chinese intelligence asset, saying diversion allegations were 'investigated and debunked'.”

The underlying events are well documented across many named outlets, and the statement the claim attributes to Nvidia is directly quoted by at least four of them. CNBC reports that an Nvidia spokesperson on Thursday pushed back on a New York Times report that detailed American intelligence agencies surveilling a person close to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang because they thought she could be a Chinese intelligence asset, and that according to the Times report, which cited people briefed on intelligence surveillance, Alice Huang, who is linked to the Singapore-based cloud Megaspeed, developed a close relationship with Nvidia's Jensen Huang. CNBC gives the quote in full: "The diversion allegations against this regional cloud were thoroughly investigated and debunked last year," the spokesperson said in a statement. The Hill received the same statement independently, reporting that "The diversion allegations against this regional cloud were thoroughly investigated and debunked last year," an Nvidia spokesperson told The Hill, and adding that Jensen Huang's interactions with Alice Huang were "not unusual or unexpected," the spokesperson said, with "Megaspeed has been no different than many other regional cloud customers. Meetings with customers are part of a CEO's job; Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year." The spokesperson is named in the Times reporting itself. Syndicated republication records that Nvidia said the company that employed her, Megaspeed, was like any other regional customer and that it had previously investigated and debunked claims the Singaporean company was smuggling chips to China, attributed to John Rizzo, a spokesperson for Nvidia, who also said Nvidia is "confident that if the U.S. government believes that any person is a threat to American industry, it would let us know". On the underlying allegation, wire coverage reports that U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that the executive, Alice Huang, was gathering information for Beijing, The New York Times reported on Thursday, and that Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, is a Chinese citizen who became a senior executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center company and Nvidia customer. Separately documented context on the earlier diversion matter: the Commerce Department opened an investigation into Megaspeed in late 2024 after a US official found Nvidia equipment still boxed at a Malaysian data centre, and the probe was transferred to the Justice Department in 2026. Nvidia's earlier public position on diversion was similar in substance: "We have repeatedly visited Megaspeed's facilities and observed a cloud service permitted under the export rules, with no evidence of diversion." Other parties also responded. The CEO spoke on the record the same day: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the chipmaker's dealings with Megaspeed International were "normal and not unusual" following a New York Times report that one of the Singapore firm's executives is under investigation for spying on behalf of China. Megaspeed has commissioned an internal inquiry into separate concerns reported by The New York Times. China rejected the reporting: Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun called the reports "unsubstantiated" at an Oct. 30 briefing.