Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned in disgrace this week, a direct result of his extramarital affairs, including one with a woman suspected of working for Chinese intelligence. That woman, Alice Huang, was an executive at Singapore-based tech company Megaspeed, and questions have swirled about whether she’s actually a “spy” or an “asset.” Some people with a vested interest in the world of AI insist she’s none of the above.
China’s Foreign Ministry has called allegations that Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese spy plot “groundless speculation” and “nothing more than an attempt to smear China.” U.S.-based venture capitalists and at least one former Trump administration official on X have also been insisting that Alice Huang wasn’t actually a spy, suggesting there was some kind of plot to take down Jensen.
David Sacks, the former White House AI and crypto czar, pointed to a list of Trump-adjacent sources who claim there’s little evidence Alice was a spy. Sacks quoted Attorney General Todd Blanche, who said “no conclusions [had been] reached,” as well as the CIA, which had “not yet [been] convinced.”
“At this point, the only crime that we know for sure happened is the leaking of the classified memo. Who did that and why?” wrote Sacks.
