A Scandal at the Centre of the Economy

Ana Swanson, Tripp Mickle, Paul Mozur, and Mara Hvistendahl, reporting for the New York Times in October 2025: On a humid June night last year, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, held court with several of his company’s major Asian customers at a bar with sweeping views of Taipei. They stood and toasted the booming artificial intelligence industry. Next to the Nvidia chief was a woman named Huang Le, or Alice Huang, an executive of a Singapore-based data center company called Megaspeed, which was poised to buy $2 billion of Nvidia A.I. technology over the next year. Though Ms. Huang and Megaspeed are little-known players in the A.I. industry, their association with Nvidia and its chief executive has recently become a preoccupation in Washington. It was after this article was published that, according to Lauren Goode of Wired, Jensen Huang hired a crisis communications firm whose founder is known for helping “powerful men facing allegations of sexual misconduct and other…

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