Who is Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, the AI billionaire at centre of spy scandal

Nvidia's board has opened an investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. The probe follows Huang's disclosure of an affair with a Chinese businesswoman who has been accused of passing information to Beijing, an act for which Huang has apologized. Punch reports that Huang acknowledged being unfaithful.

According to Business Insider, Huang's name and image were removed from the speaker lineup for an ElevenLabs conference in New York, and he is no longer expected to attend a private Anthropic CEO forum in Montecito. The Verge identifies the woman involved as Alice Huang, a former TV reporter and executive at Megaspeed, a company with ties to the Chinese military that has purchased $4.8 billion in Nvidia chips.

The Korea Times and CNA - Business note that the investigation comes as Huang, 63, oversees Nvidia's role as a critical supplier of graphics processing units for the AI industry.

Brief written by urgent.news from Punch, Business Insider, The Korea Times, The Verge, CNA - Business — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.