Nvidia CEO resigns after affair with alleged China spy

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday after confessing to an affair with Alice Huang, a woman U.S. officials believe was spying for China, shocking Silicon Valley and disrupting the AI industry's biggest success story. The scandal, which emerged Sunday, involves a second affair with an Nvidia employee reported by The New York Times. Huang, who built Nvidia into a trillion-dollar company powering the AI revolution, had cultivated an image of devotion to his wife and singular focus on work. Tech veterans say the fall is unprecedented, combining personal recklessness with national security implications. China denies the spying allegations. The episode contrasts with typical tech espionage cases involving low-level employees, like OpenAI's Abdulrahman Alfozan and Google's Linwei Ding, both recently prosecuted for similar offenses.