Nvidia Board Probes Whether Jensen Huang Was Spy Target After CEO Admits Affair
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-09
Per Bloomberg and Axios, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted marital infidelity in a draft staff email; the board ordered an independent probe into whether he was targeted by foreign spies. The woman involved, former Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, was suspected by US intelligence of passing information to Beijing. Megaspeed, based in Singapore, has faced US scrutiny since late 2024 over chip smuggling into China. Independent directors with outside counsel will oversee the inquiry; Huang keeps his job for now, and the board says it has no reason to believe secrets were compromised.
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