[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-alice-huang-resurfaces-in-beijing-as-nvidia-faces-congress":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},12930,"alice-huang-resurfaces-in-beijing-as-nvidia-faces-congress","Alice Huang Resurfaces in Beijing as Nvidia Faces Congress","Bloomberg places the Megaspeed executive in Beijing as Congress threatens Jensen Huang with a subpoena over the chip-smuggling probe.","Alice Huang, the Megaspeed executive at the center of the Jensen Huang scandal, has turned up in Beijing, according to Bloomberg. It is the first sighting since the story broke.\n\nBloomberg said it is unclear when she arrived or why she is there. She was last seen leaving Singapore for Shanghai in 2025, after Singapore detained and questioned her in its investigation of a $2 billion smuggling case involving Megaspeed.\n\nWashington is applying pressure on two fronts. Congress has threatened a subpoena if the Nvidia CEO does not accept an invitation to a joint, closed-door briefing with the heads of the House committees on China, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence. The FBI is also examining his relationship with a woman suspected of helping sanctioned Chinese companies obtain hundreds of thousands of banned H100 and H200 chips, Nvidia's top AI processors. The Chinese embassy in Washington called the allegations \"groundless smears and slanders.\"\n\nThe Wall Street Journal filled in her background. Known in Chinese as Huang Le, she worked in media before moving into finance. By 2016 she and her husband, Kang Wei, ran Shanghai Hexi, an investment firm that backed gaming, pharmaceutical, and later data center and cloud companies. Chinese regulators fined Kang and the firm in 2018 for disclosure failures during a takeover fight. Sources told the Journal that Kang knew of the relationship and sometimes joked that she was Huang's \"personal assistant.\"\n\nThe story contains two separate questions. One is commercial: whether a couple who followed hot sectors, from mobile games to AI data centers, turned privileged access to scarce chips into a business. Sanctions made those chips harder for rivals to buy, which raises the value of any reliable supplier. The other is counterintelligence. U.S. intelligence officials suggest she may be passing information to the Ministry of State Security, China's foreign intelligence agency, but it remains unclear whether it tasked her to target Huang or simply used the relationship.\n\nThe answer changes what Congress is investigating. A profit-seeking intermediary is an export-control problem. An intelligence asset close to the head of the largest AI hardware company is a far larger one. 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