Jensen Huang’s affair with suspected spy threatens Nvidia CEO’s future
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang faces a reckoning after admitting to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, prompting a company investigation into national security concerns that could determine his future leadership. The scandal threatens the position of the billionaire who built the world's most valuable chip company. Huang, who emigrated from Taiwan as a child and endured a harsh reform school in rural Kentucky, co-founded Nvidia in 1993. His early bet on graphics processing units for artificial intelligence made him a top-10 global billionaire with a fortune above $150 billion, as Nvidia reached a $4 trillion market value. The affair involved Alice Huang, an executive at Nvidia customer MegaSpeed, which faced allegations of diverting banned AI chips to China. Congress is scrutinizing the relationship, while President Trump called Huang an "honorable guy" who "probably has an excuse for it."