China’s Ministry of State Security (M.S.S.) reportedly recruited a woman to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, one of the world’s richest men, President Donald Trump’s favorite AI CEO, and the key player in next-generation GPUs needed for AI training and processing, the New York Times reported on Friday.

Previous reports have indicated that the woman, known by the names Alice Huang or Huang Le, was listed as Singapore-based Megaspeed’s managing director until at least 2023. The aim of the Nvidia operation, the Times wrote, was to learn more about Nvidia’s most advanced hardware. Chinese officials also allegedly tasked her with persuading Huang to lobby for shipping some of the company’s most advanced GPUs to China as a sort of stretch goal.…