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. According to Punch, the board is probing Huang following an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, an act for which the AI billionaire has apologized and acknowledged being unfaithful. The Korea Times reports that Huang confirmed an affair with a Chinese businesswoman accused of passing information to Beijing.

The Verge identifies the individual as Alice Huang, a former TV reporter and executive at Megaspeed. The report states that Megaspeed, which has ties to the Chinese military, purchased $4.8 billion of Nvidia chips and is an alleged honeypot recruited by the Chinese Ministry of State Security.

As a result of the situation, Huang has been removed from upcoming speaking engagements. Business Insider reports that his name and image disappeared from the ElevenLabs Summit lineup in New York, and he is no longer expected to attend a private CEO forum hosted by Anthropic.

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