Nvidia CEO Huang admits affair with Chinese spy, company launches probe

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to being unfaithful to his wife in a memo to employees. According to Business Standard IN, Huang acknowledged to the board that he had been intimate with a business executive whom US intelligence determined was gathering information for Beijing. Business Insider reports that the company's board of directors has opened an independent investigation into whether Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort.

The investigation follows reports from The New York Times, cited by Business Insider, stating that US officials believed a Chinese intelligence asset, Alice Huang, had developed a relationship with the CEO. Alice Huang is an executive for Megaspeed, a customer of Nvidia.

Quartz reports that Huang apologized to staff for his infidelity and that the board stated it has no reason to believe company secrets were compromised. Jensen Huang has said he will cooperate with a security investigation, according to BBC Business. Le Monde Economie notes that the firm, which manufactures microprocessors essential to the AI revolution, has launched an internal probe.

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