Wired: Huang hired crisis PR firm before affair disclosure

Wired reported that Nvidia’s internal communications team was instructed to copy Heller Inc. on press inquiries about Huang shortly after an October 2025 New York Times report raised questions about whether Nvidia was helping Chinese companies evade U.S. chip export restrictions.

The Times reported that Megaspeed, a little-known Singapore-based data center company with ties to China, had acquired nearly $2 billion worth of Nvidia chips. Its report described Megaspeed CEO Alice Huang, later linked to Jensen Huang, standing beside him at a Taipei gathering of Nvidia customers.

Heller Inc. founder Risa Heller’s reported clients include former congressman Anthony Weiner, celebrity chef Mario Batali and former New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin, according to the 2023 New York Magazine profile. Heller and Nvidia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

On Sunday, Nvidia published a statement from Huang acknowledging an affair with a former Megaspeed executive. He did not name Alice Huang. Nvidia’s board separately announced an independent investigation, citing reports that Huang “has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort.”