- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a Sunday note that he had been unfaithful to his wife.
- A woman named Alice Huang is at the center of the resulting scrutiny.
- Here's what we know about Huang, who has been an executive at Megaspeed International.
Jensen Huang's note to staff on Sunday, in which he acknowledged being unfaithful to his wife, came as Nvidia opened an independent investigation into reports that he may have been the target of a "foreign intelligence effort."
At the center is Alice Huang, who has been an executive for Megaspeed, an Nvidia customer.
The New York Times reported in late October that US intelligence officials believe Huang, who developed a close relationship with the Nvidia CEO, was passing information to Beijing.
Huang's role at Megaspeed
Megaspeed first came under scrutiny after the Times reported last year that US authorities were examining whether the company and its Malaysian affiliate were helping Chinese businesses gain access to Nvidia's AI chips despite US export controls.
It is unclear when Huang — who shares a last name with the CEO, but has no relation to him — first met the Nvidia chief.
A 2024 LinkedIn post from the AI company NetThunder, shared during the Computex Taipei trade show, showed the pair at a bar with other technology executives.
In May 2025, news footage from Taiwanese media showed them leaving a Taipei restaurant alongside other executives.
However, beyond those public appearances, little is known about Huang. Singapore corporate filings identify her as Huang Le.
Megaspeed International was incorporated in Singapore in 2015 as 7Road International, before changing its name on March 7, 2023, according to Singapore corporate filings.
A day earlier, Huang, a Chinese national, was appointed as both a director and managing director of the company, alongside another Chinese national, Cang Yang, who joined as a director. She resigned from both roles on November 10, the same day Cang also stepped down.
When Huang assumed the role, corporate filings show that 7Road International HK Limited transferred all shares in the Singapore entity to Huang Le Limited, a British Virgin Islands company.
That November, ownership was transferred again to Swiftdata, a Singapore company incorporated on October 31, 2023. Swiftdata remains Megaspeed’s sole shareholder.
The Times reported that Megaspeed was formed after 7Road, a Chinese online gaming company, split off its Singaporean subsidiary.
Before her time at Megaspeed, Huang worked as an executive director at a Shanghai investment fund that had backed 7Road and was connected to state-backed companies, per the Times.
In an October response to a query from The Wall Street Journal, Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs said it had not investigated Huang over her alleged ties to Chinese intelligence or her relationship with Jensen Huang. It said, however, that the Singapore Police's investigation into Megaspeed is ongoing, and declined to comment further.
Nvidia CEO's ties to Huang
In response to The Times' initial reporting, Nvidia characterized Jensen Huang's interactions with Huang as routine business dealings.
"Jensen's interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected. Meetings with customers are part of a CEO's job; Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year, John Rizzo, a spokesman for Nvidia, told the Times in late October.
The Nvidia CEO himself made similar comments to Bloomberg last week. "Our relationship, our interactions, have been related to Megaspeed, and it was all completely normal and not unusual," Huang said.
On Sunday, Huang told Nvidia staff that he had been unfaithful to his wife. His note did not name Alice Huang or address the reported relationship directly.
"Today's news will not slow Nvidia," a company spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement on Sunday. "Jensen is committed to continuing to lead Nvidia as CEO without interruption."
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