Nvidia Finds Itself at the Center of an AI Spy Saga - CNET
The companies behind powerful AI technology are high-stakes territory for international espionage. A new investigation from The New York Times published Thursday found that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have been the target of Chinese spying activity, with the US government identifying a data center executive with whom he had developed a “close relationship” as a possible operative for the Chinese government.
Alice Huang, no relation to Jensen, is a Chinese citizen and an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center company. Megaspeed buys chips from Nvidia to run data centers that sell compute to Chinese AI labs, including Qwen AI maker Alibaba. But while US intelligence agencies had her under electronic surveillance for allegedly facilitating the sale of advanced Nvidia chips to China in violation of US law, officials discovered she was also allegedly funneling information to the Chinese government in Beijing.
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