Alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang may have extracted key details on Nvidia’s products and thoughts on President Trump’s AI stance during “pillow talk” with CEO Jensen Huang, experts said.

Alice, also known as Huang Le, has been identified at the center of Nvidia boss’ affair, with US officials accusing her of being an asset for China’s feared spy agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS).

Nicholas Eftimiades, a retired US senior intelligence officer and author of “Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics,” claimed Alice’s history as a businesswoman in the tech field likely helped her get close to Jensen to get the information about Nvidia, the backbone of America’s AI boom.

“This is pillow talk,” said Eftimiades. “They have a mutual interest of things to talk about — he might say, ‘Yeah, no, I can’t get this passed the board,’ or, ‘Yeah I can get this passed.’

“That let’s China focus and say, ‘OK now we know who our friends are and now we know who our enemies are,’” Eftimiades added.

Jensen also has a close relationship with Trump, and experts say that would have made him a key target as well to get an understanding of where the president’s stance was on tech exports or anything else. 

But because of Huang’s status as co-founder of the second largest company in the world and ally of Trump, Alice’s alleged approach would have needed a softer touch to create an atmosphere of influence. 

“It’s hard for me to imagine someone of his stature getting a ‘Here is what you should tell President Trump,’” said Peter Mattis, co-author of Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer.

“She was mostly like introducing him to people in China to shape what he understood about what was taking place,” he added.  

Another layer to the relationship is that Jensen Huang was in the business to sell chips — and he was on record as being skeptical or critical of export regulations to China for years, including before his first documented meeting with Alice.

Alice, who is of no relation to Jensen, served as a top executive at the Singapore-based Megaspeed, a Nvidia customer and cloud partner that provides AI computing power to Chinese companies, including Alibaba.

Little is known about the alleged spy’s private life, but before entering the world of finance, Alice had worked as a reporter for CCTV, the national broadcaster of the Chinese state, and Hunan TV, a regional broadcaster in central China, according to her LinkedIn biography.

The Post, however, could find no reporting profile under Huang Le’s name on Hunan TV’s website, or on that of CCTV, China’s state broadcaster.

She then moved to working for Chinese financial companies and the London-based HSBC’s private banking division. Alice also worked as an executive at the Shanghai Hexi Investment firm that backed 7Road International, which would later become Megaspeed.

American officials believe Alice was recruited at some point by China’s Ministry of State Security to spy for the country’s main intelligence agency. The Commerce Department first flagged Alice as a suspicious actor during the end of the Biden administration following her sudden rise to the top of Megaspeed.

The company was known as 7Road International before changing its name on March 7, 2023, with Huang appointed as both a director and managing director of the company just the day before, according to corporate filings.

When Huang assumed the role, the company transferred all of its shares to Huang Le Limited, a British Virgin Islands company. Huang’s position in the company was short lived, with the executive resigning from both her roles on November 10, 2023.

Despite the departure, Alice allegedly continued to act as the company leader and introduced herself as its CEO as recently as August 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported.

US intelligence reports would go on to flag Alice’s close relations to Huang, including photos of them spending time together at bars and restaurants in Taipei with other AI bigshots.

The two met as early as 2024 during an annual Nvidia event in California, with the pair appearing together again that June at a bar in Taiwan following the Computex Taipei trade show.

They also appeared on Taiwanese media meeting at a Taipei restaurant alongside other executives in the following year’s trade show.

It remains unclear if the two had met prior to the tech events in 2024.

Alice’s current whereabouts are unknown, but people in contact with her claimed that she was in China earlier this year, according to the Journal.

Jensen Huang has been a vocal advocate of trying to ease restrictions on chip exports to China in the middle of an AI arms race. His company has been lobbying the Trump administration cut back on restrictions.

“Jensen Huang has been articulate in making a case for why we should reduce the restrictions on exports,” former Edgard Kagan, a senior adviser on China at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “what the allegations suggest is that that isn’t being done just based on his own thinking but it’a something that’s being influence by Chinese government.”

US officials began investigating Megaspeed International and Alice Huang in 2024 for reportedly smuggling Nvidia chips into China.

The case was abruptly halted after Nvidia’s top counsel reached out to an official in the commerce department, and then the case was transferred to the Justice department, according to the New York Times.