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Nov 12, 2026

Banned Nvidia chips found installed at China data center linked to Alice Huang

A Chinese company founded by Alice Huang procured smuggled AI chips that were installed at a Shanghai data center with links to Megaspeed, according to Bloomberg. The DOJ is also probing Alice Huang over whether entities linked to her were involved in Super Micro chip smuggling to China.

Nov 12, 20264 sources

Top claims

▪Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned after admitting to an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed International who founded Shanghai Longteng Intelligent Computing
▪Aperia Cloud Services purchased 22 Dell servers containing Nvidia H800 chips restricted from export to China in 2023, which were diverted to a data center in Shanghai
▪U.S. officials allege that Alice Huang was recruited by China's main intelligence agency to target Jensen Huang, learn U.S. AI plans, and lobby for relaxed chip export controls

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Hong Kong Michael Kratsios Suspected Chinese spy close to Jensen Huang Chip export controls U.S. technology trade restrictions China-United States relations AI data centers AI chips US–China AI competition U.S.–China relations Chinese AI models

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