{
  "id": 19300167,
  "title": "Who is Alice Huang? The suspected Chinese spy at the centre of the Nvidia scandal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/who-is-alice-huang-the-suspected-chinese-spy-at-the-centre-of-the",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-10T07:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
    "slug": "the-sydney-morning-herald",
    "url": "https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/who-is-alice-huang-the-suspected-chinese-spy-at-the-centre-of-the-nvidia-scandal-20261110-p61cr2.html?ref=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is facing an independent investigation and scrutiny from the FBI 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.\n\nThe situation has raised national security concerns for the United States amid the competition between the U.S. and China for leadership in artificial intelligence. IOL reports that the allegations involving Jensen Huang and the woman accused by Washington of working for Chinese intelligence have revived interest in the \"honey trap\" tactic, which involves using intimacy, seduction, or blackmail to influence or obtain information. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age describe the individual as a former television journalist.",
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Hindustan Times - World News",
        "title": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hired crisis PR firm at least a year before admitting affair: Report",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-hired-crisis-pr-firm-at-least-a-year-before",
        "published": "2026-11-10T04:59:15.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Age",
        "title": "Who is Alice Huang? The suspected Chinese spy at the centre of the Nvidia scandal",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/who-is-alice-huang-the-suspected-chinese-spy-at-the-centre-of-the-19300187",
        "published": "2026-11-10T07:15:00.000Z"
      }
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}