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.…