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Lingling Wei, reporting for The Wall Street Journal: Before the affair that threatened his job as Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang was introduced to his future romantic interest, Alice Huang, by a Chinese businessman he’d known for a decade, Kang Wei. Kang also happened to be Alice Huang’s husband, said people who know the couple. For two years, Kang appeared to accept his wife’s romantic…
Reuters journalist Lingling Wei unveils the untold story of a tangled web of relationships and alleged espionage surrounding Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang. It all began when Huang met his future wife, Alice Huang, through a decade-long friendship with a Chinese businessman, Kang Wei, who happened to be Alice's husband. For two years, Kang seemed to accept his wife's affair with the Nvidia CEO and even jokingly referred to her as his personal assistant.
The couple's business dealings spanned numerous lucrative opportunities, including videogame companies, pharmaceutical acquisitions, and cloud computing ventures.
Nvidia's AI chips became the latest target for this power couple, who had a history of capitalizing on lucrative trades and sometimes crossing regulatory lines. U.S. officials suspect that China's intelligence services recruited Alice Huang as an asset due to her close relationship with Huang. While she was not a trained secret agent, the intelligence services offered her an arrangement she couldn't refuse.
This arrangement reportedly involved procuring and smuggling Nvidia hardware in violation of U.S. national security regulations.
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