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The alleged "spy plot" involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revolves around accusations that Alice Huang, a senior executive at the Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed, acted as a Chinese intelligence asset. Alice Huang is thought to have facilitated the transfer of a significant purchase of Nvidia GPUs, roughly worth $2 billion, which were allegedly intended for data centers in Malaysia and Indonesia to serve Chinese customers. This action raised suspicions of export-control evasion due to the rerouting of AI chips through Malaysia and Singapore, rather than directly to China, allowing Beijing potential access to technology restricted by U.S. export controls [1], [2], [4].

Nvidia insists its interactions with Megaspeed are ordinary customer dealings, and it has denied any exposure of trade secrets. Nevertheless, U.S. authorities found shipments of GPUs at a Megaspeed data center in Malaysia. Coupled with revelations of Alice Huang's close ties to Jensen Huang and supposed coordination with the Chinese government, these findings prompted a deeper investigation by the Department of Justice into potential export-control violations [1], [3], [5].