Financial Times: Alice Huang is no stranger to scandal. Long before allegations she spied for China and had an affair with Jensen Huang, the tech executive built her career alongside a man with a record of crossing regulators.
For the best part of a decade, Huang worked with Kang Wei, a financier who was both her romantic partner and business associate, even as he faced multiple investigations for stock market violations in China…
Despite Denial, Trump Was Told on Trip to China About Spying on Nvidia Leader
Before Jensen Huang boarded Air Force One en route to Beijing, the president was reminded of intelligence showing that he was in a relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy…
Nvidia Hires Wachtell Lipton to Investigate C.E.O.’s Affair With Chinese Executive
Wachtell, which is known in corporate America as one of the foremost law firms for counseling executives on how to navigate complex challenges, will advise Nvidia’s board of directors on the inquiry into Mr. Huang.
The Wachtell partner Joon H. Kim, who focuses on high-stakes litigation and enforcement, is directing the investigation for the firm, the people said. He was previously acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in 2017 and early 2018…
The phantom life of Alice Huang, alleged Chinese spy who had affair with Nvidia CEO
Much of her background, from her age and hometown to her education and prior jobs, are unconfirmed. Attempts to verify information largely go unanswered — or raise new suspicions. Her current whereabouts are uncertain, and her social media accounts appear to have been deleted. Even her exact title at Megaspeed International, the Singapore-based customer of Nvidia, is not clear…
The Nvidia spy scandal was hiding in plain sight
China’s spy service bet on lust and arrogance, and Washington was slow to see the risk.
…Former intelligence officers have warned of the danger. After leaving the CIA, Riggin and Rudy Guerin, former chief of FBI China counterintelligence, co-founded a consulting firm called Pamir that advised U.S. companies about corporate espionage threats in China. “We have briefed many executives,” Guerin told me. “The majority didn’t take the threat seriously.”…
China’s spies have long been rampant in Silicon Valley
“It’s no secret that the American tech industry is a hugely attractive target for Chinese intelligence services and particularly the hardware sector where Nvidia has been a leader,” said Ryan Fedasuik, a fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute focused on U.S.-China technology competition.
“You can take all of the security precautions in the world and throw it away with one misjudgment in a personal relationship,” Fedasuik said…
Nvidia’s spy scandal threatens America’s AI edge
Ret. Gen. Leslie Beavers, former director of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance enterprise capabilities at the Pentagon, said that Washington should be most concerned about Beijing siphoning privileged information on Nvidia’s chips.
“Insight into what it takes to manufacture chips that perform at speed and as reliably as our best chips gives China a leg-up to take that information and maybe even perfect it,” Beavers said…