US President Donald Trump said on Monday, 9 November 2026, that the FBI is probing Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang’s relationship with a woman accused of working for Chinese intelligence services.
Speaking at the White House on Monday, Trump said: “We’ll look into it. I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else.” He added: “I think he will be in good shape.”
Trump said he spoke to Huang on Monday and asked him, “Did you have any idea she was a spy?” Huang said he had “absolutely no idea”, and Trump said: “I really believe him.” Trump said he first became aware of concerns about the relationship “not too long ago”.
The FBI declined to comment when contacted by the BBC.
The woman is Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based data centre company Megaspeed. She is not related to Jensen Huang and has not publicly commented.
The New York Times and Financial Times reported last week that unnamed US officials had authored a memo alleging Huang had been targeted by Alice Huang for intelligence-gathering activities, and that US intelligence believes she worked for China’s Ministry of State Security.
Nvidia announced on Sunday it had opened a probe. Its board said it had no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised, but an independent inquiry overseen by outside counsel would examine “all available information”. In a separate statement, Huang admitted to an extramarital relationship, apologised to his family, colleagues and shareholders, and pledged to cooperate fully with the board’s inquiry.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday rejected the allegations, spokesperson Guo Jiakun calling them “groundless speculation, and a smear against China”.
Nvidia, based in Santa Clara, California, controls an estimated 80 to 90 percent of the market for graphics processing units (GPUs) used to run frontier AI models. Nvidia shares fell 4.27 percent on Monday to close at $178.67.
A proposed class-action lawsuit was filed in California on Monday accusing Nvidia of defrauding shareholders by concealing the chief executive’s alleged ties to a suspected Chinese spy, reported by the BBC.
Source: Al Jazeera (story first reported by the BBC).
