Recently, tech journalism outlet Gamers Nexus has revealed that the United States Secret Service contacted them following their investigative coverage of the technology industry.
The Secret Service’s cyber crime and financial fraud division expressed interest in a company the outlet had been covering, marking a dramatic escalation in what has become an eight-month investigation into corruption within the GPU and AI industries.
The revelation comes as Gamers Nexus prepares to launch its most ambitious investigative series yet, examining what they describe as “the corruption of NVIDIA” and the company’s troubling connections to global surveillance operations.
At the center of their investigation is NVIDIA’s partnership with Palantir, a company whose CEO has openly stated their product “is used on occasion to kill people” and exists “to scare our enemies and on occasion kill them.”
The timing of NVIDIA’s corporate transformation has raised significant red flags. Following a Department of Justice investigation in 2024 for alleged antitrust violations, the chip giant dramatically reversed its decades-long stance against political contributions.
Gamers Nexus uncovered that NVIDIA contributed $1 million to the Trump inauguration alongside a reported $1 million dinner at Mar-a-Lago, $3.5 million in lobbying spending for 2025, and a $10 million donation to the Trump Ballroom given alongside Palantir.
Compounding these concerns is the ongoing Department of Commerce investigation into NVIDIA partner MegaSpeed for allegedly circumventing US export controls on NVIDIA GPUs. Significantly, MegaSpeed CEO Alice Huang and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang have been photographed together and are known collaborators.
Since pressure intensified, Gamers Nexus discovered that MegaSpeed has been quietly scrubbing its website of statements about its NVIDIA partnership.
The investigation expands beyond NVIDIA to examine how private corporations like Nintendo and Sega have allegedly collaborated with private investigator firms and police to raid homes of private citizens for possessing discarded gaming consoles. The series will also expose NZXT’s alleged rental computer scam, now facing a civil RICO lawsuit that cites Gamers Nexus’s work dozens of times, and reveal connections between NZXT’s major investor Francisco Partners and global surveillance operations.
Perhaps most alarming is the examination of data center expansion across America, where local communities face higher electricity costs, decreased property values, and resource consumption to subsidize corporate AI ambitions. As tech companies consolidate power through circular funding schemes and government partnerships, the question of oversight becomes critical.
Gamers Nexus has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support their three-month investigative series, offering supporters USB copies of their investigations—a safeguard against the digital censorship they anticipate.