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Megaspeed Says Accused Chinese Spy Alice Huang Left in August 2025, No Company Role
“US intelligence agencies have not established that Alice Huang was actually spying for China.”
“US intelligence authorities suspect that Alice Huang had links to China's Ministry of State Security”
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Alice Huang left Megaspeed in August 2025. Megaspeed says Huang has no current role and denies wrongdoing.
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Megaspeed confirms Huang exit
Megaspeed confirmed that Alice Huang, accused of spying for China and linked to an alleged affair with former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, left the Singapore-based data center company in August 2025.
Megaspeed said in a statement that Alice Huang “left Megaspeed effective Aug. 30, 2025, and currently has no role with the company,” and the company said it was conducting an internal probe over the scandal.
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs explicitly stated that Alice Huang was not investigated for espionage, and the ministry said the investigation concerned suspected offences relating to the purchase and export of servers, not alleged links to Chinese intelligence.
Megaspeed said it was aware of press reports containing assertions about its business, supply chain and global operations “that are not supported by verifiable evidence,” and it said it retained external legal counsel to conduct a thorough internal investigation.
Spy claims meet denials
US intelligence authorities suspect that Alice Huang had links to China's Ministry of State Security and may have been recruited as an intelligence asset, while Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs said she was not investigated for espionage. China denied that Alice Huang is a spy and warned the US not to use the scandal as a “pretext for imposing a technological blockade” on AI technology.
Megaspeed said it “designs and maintains its global operational and supply-chain control frameworks to comply with all applicable laws and regulatory regimes,” including US export control requirements and local jurisdiction rules in every market where it operates. The BBC reported that Megaspeed is suspected of giving backdoor access to Nvidia chips to Chinese companies via its data centres in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, while Nvidia has been banned from selling its advanced chips to China.
Export controls and fallout
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blamed Howard Lutnick's commerce department for failing to properly oversee the export of high-end chips, and Bessent told CNBC that several agencies “were in favour of putting Megaspeed on the entity list for months... but Commerce has the pen.” The BBC said Lutnick has been called to testify before the Senate Banking Committee next month over his department's role in allowing Nvidia to export its advanced chips, and other congressional committees asked both Lutnick and his department to retain all records relating to Nvidia and Jensen Huang.
Megaspeed said it is under scrutiny in the US over alleged export control violations, and the company said it was aware of allegations that it supplied high-end AI chips to China through a network of shell companies and false declarations. The BBC said Singapore expects companies in its jurisdiction to respect regulations, and it added that Singapore does not prohibit the transfer of advanced AI chips to companies abroad even if such moves can breach US export controls.