Who is Alice Huang? The suspected Chinese spy at the centre of the Nvidia scandal

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is facing FBI scrutiny and an independent investigation after admitting to an affair with a woman suspected by U.S. intelligence of being a Chinese spy. According to The Korea Times, the woman has been identified as Alice Huang, who worked as a business executive at the Singapore-based data center firm Megaspeed in 2023. U.S. intelligence officials allege that Huang collected intelligence and passed it on to China.

The situation has raised significant national security concerns for the United States during the global competition for leadership in artificial intelligence. The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald report that a former television journalist is at the center of the controversy surrounding the company. IOL notes that the allegations involving Huang and Jensen Huang have revived interest in the concept of a "honey trap," involving the use of intimacy or seduction to obtain information.

Brief written by urgent.news from The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, IOL, 3News, The Korea Times — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.