China denies spying on Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

BEIJING: Beijing dismissed as “groundless speculation” on Friday (October 30, 2026) a report that said Jensen Huang, head of U.S. chip giant Nvidia, was the target of a Chinese spy plot.

The article by The New York Times, published on Thursday (October 29, 2026), said that U.S. intelligence officials concluded that a Chinese executive linked to a Singapore-based data centre company had been funnelling information to Beijing.

“The report in question is based on groundless speculation and is nothing more than an attempt to smear China,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a regular briefing.