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Chinese Executive Close to Nvidia CEO Suspected of Giving China Information

U.S. intelligence reportedly watched Alice Huang, who is not related to Jensen Huang, for about a year; Megaspeed has hired outside counsel for an internal investigation.

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  1. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentInvestigators believed a Chinese executive named Alice Huang was recruited because of her relationship with Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, and U. S. intelligence reportedly watched her for about a year, according to the New York Times.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo what's the relationship? Old friends, family, what?

  3. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentEngadget reports she is not related to him.

  4. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentShe worked at Megaspeed, a Singapore cloud firm accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China, and Megaspeed has hired outside counsel to investigate.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSame surname, not related. That's the most confusing group chat in the world, and everyone in it is named Huang.

  6. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAdd it to the list of facts you want to get right. Nvidia says its regional cloud customers get only ordinary business information.

  7. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentMegaspeed's Malaysian sister company reportedly bought at least four point eight billion dollars in Nvidia-based equipment in under two years.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA year of surveillance, and the one confirmed link to the CEO is a surname.

  9. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentRex, take it. I am watching the machines.

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