Cantor Fitzgerald’s reported Nvidia share count fell by nearly half between September 2025 and March 2026, a CNBC analysis found.
That was the period when Axios reported Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick faced pressure from administration officials to address suspected smuggling of Nvidia’s advanced AI chips to China.
The Wall Street firm, which Lutnick formerly chaired and is now run by his sons, maintained extensive commercial ties to Nvidia, helping arrange billions of dollars in financing for companies in its AI business universe and repeatedly hosting its top executives.
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I spoke w/ fmr CIA analyst & Taiwan Intel dir. Their main theory: Alice Huang may not have been a trained spy but could have been recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to exploit her access to Jensen/NVIDIA. Refusal may have been nearly impossible under Ch nat sec laws.
The NVIDIA scandal just took another massive turn, and now DeepSeek is getting dragged into the whole mess.
According to The Information, companies linked to Alice Huang, the former Megaspeed executive suspected by U.S. intelligence of having ties to China, reportedly participated in DeepSeek’s nearly $16 billion funding round, with Nvidia GPUs reportedly part of the arrangement.
And this is where things get particularly interesting. Alice Huang was allegedly involved in a network of companies operating across China, Singapore, and Malaysia that helped Chinese firms gain access to Nvidia’s advanced AI chips despite U.S. export restrictions.
The Information previously reported that her connections helped facilitate more than $7.5 billion worth of Nvidia chip shipments to China, involving roughly 240,000 GPUs, including H100s and H200s.
Now we’re learning that companies connected to this same network may have also helped finance DeepSeek, one of the biggest Chinese competitors to American AI companies.
The bigger concern here is that U.S. technology restrictions may have been far less effective than Washington believed. While the U.S. was trying to limit China’s access to advanced computing power, Chinese companies were allegedly using overseas intermediaries to secure the very chips needed to compete with American AI labs.
And with Jensen Huang now out as NVIDIA’s CEO, this could bring even more scrutiny from Washington over how Nvidia’s chips were being distributed and who ultimately had access to them.
The allegations surrounding Alice Huang have not been proven, but I think we’re going to be hearing a lot more about this story over the coming days.
By orchestrating his exit a week before earnings, Jensen Huang has avoided lying on the SOX certification, which carries criminal penalties.
In 90 days, he can dump his entire $NVDA stake without filing Form 144 and retire a rich man. This is important because he gets to sell everything BEFORE the external auditor raises red flags in the 10-K.
Michael de Guzman had to throw himself out of a helicopter to escape the Bre-X scandal.
Jensen merely had to pretend to get caught in a sex scandal. Credit where it's due. This was brilliantly planned and executed.
@Alisvolatprop12 프론티어 모델 개발 규제해야한다 앞장서던 아모데이랑 알트먼 뜻대로 오픈모델들 사다리 걷어차는 규제까지 들어갈 확률도 더 높아져서 전체토큰량 수요가 기존 전망치보다 줄어들겠죠. 이둘의 수익성이 좋아야하기 때문에 칩들도 commoditize 해서 비용도 낮추려고 할테고요
@Guikodesu 엔비디아는 의도적으로 밀수 채널들을 확보하며 화계 장부 조작까지 해서 수십억달러 어치 칩을 중국에 밀수하였고 트럼프 행정부도 그간 눈감아준게 원래라면 여러사람이 감옥에 가야 마땅하다. 더 이상 사태가 커지기 전에 엔비디아에서는 젠슨황 행정부에서는 상무부 장관인Lutnick을조용히사임할것
@Guikodesu 💯. 트럼프가 gpu 수출 물량을 조절하였고 중국은 희토류 수출을 조절하며 서로 무역 신경전을 겨뤘다.
여기에 추가로 엔트로픽과 오픈ai의 ipo를 앞두고 이들의 모델이 중국 오픈모델 상대로 별다른 해자가 없어 이둘의 성장이 둔화하지 않기 위해 엄격하게 칩수출을 통제하기로 기조를 바꾼 것.
@BBond70313@ginamilan_ This exactly backs up Jensen and nvidia deliberately ochestrated the smuggling and Alice Huang was just an individual pawn that was chosen by Jensen to make money working for them you dumbfuck. Do you know who introduced Jensen Megaspeed? It's alibaba and those three kept held
11) In March 2026, the DoJ indicted three individuals tied to Supermicro (SMCI), including co-founder Wally Liaw, for allegedly smuggling $2.5B of $NVDA servers to China via "Company-1." Bloomberg has since reported "Company-1" is OBON Corp. We agree, but there's more...
Nvidia's chip accounting is MISSING BILLIONS of US Dollars:
Nvidia's inventory tabulations provided to US authorities undercounted chip sales to Megaspeed through hardware partners by 50,000 units, worth billions of US Dollars, according to trade records analyzed by Bloomberg.
Nvidia had previously reported inspecting 12 facilities operated by 8 companies across three Southeast Asian countries and declared that all chips were accounted for.
After Bloomberg questioned the discrepancy, Nvidia said it had checked additional Megaspeed warehouses containing the missing hardware, but declined to disclose exactly how many chips it found.
Further discrepancies emerged when 2 of the 8 data-center operators Nvidia claimed to have inspected told Bloomberg they had never housed Megaspeed's hardware.
Meanwhile, Nvidia's general counsel contacted the Commerce Department about the investigation, after which BIS staff faced unusual restrictions on communications involving Megaspeed.
In late 2025, the Justice Department subsequently requested that BIS pause its investigation.
Despite the unresolved discrepancies, Megaspeed remains an official Nvidia Cloud Partner, a designation Nvidia generally withdraws when companies stop doing business with it.
Nvidia's inventory checks leave billions of dollars in questions unanswered.