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  "id": 19387033,
  "title": "Nvidia hires law firm Wachtell Lipton to lead Jensen Huang affair probe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/nvidia-hires-law-firm-wachtell-lipton-to-lead-jensen-huang-affair-19387033",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-10T20:01:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CNBC Technology",
    "slug": "cnbc-technology",
    "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/10/nvidia-wachtell-lipton-huang-affair.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to having an extramarital affair. According to CNBC Technology, the woman involved has been connected to Chinese intelligence in reports by The New York Times and Financial Times. TechCrunch reports that the individual is Alice Huang, an executive at the Singapore-based AI infrastructure company Megaspeed, and notes she is a Chinese citizen with no relation to the CEO.\n\nU.S. officials believe Alice Huang is a Chinese spy who has been feeding information to Beijing, TechCrunch reports. Megaspeed has reportedly purchased $4.8 billion in Nvidia chips over the last two years and has previously been investigated by the U.S. and Singapore over suspicions of illegally sharing chips with China. Ars Technica reports that the investigation by Nvidia’s board into the affair and the alleged connection to a Chinese spy could result in Huang being forced out of the company he co-founded.\n\nThe controversy has impacted Nvidia's market position. Ars Technica notes that shares in the company fell more than 5 percent by midday Monday, following a period where Nvidia recently ceded its position as the world's most valuable company to Apple.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Jensen Huang's affair shines a spotlight on Nvidia's weak board and opaque succession planning at what has become the world's most important company (Semafor)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/jensen-huangs-affair-shines-a-spotlight-on-nvidias-weak-board-and",
        "published": "2026-11-09T22:00:35.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "TechCentral",
        "title": "Jensen Huang’s China problem reaches the FBI",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/jensen-huangs-china-problem-reaches-the-fbi",
        "published": "2026-11-10T05:03:43.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Sources: Nvidia board member and ex-Cooley CEO Stephen C Neal will probably lead the probe; Nvidia's corporate docs make no reference to \"succession planning\" (Financial Times)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/sources-nvidia-board-member-and-ex-cooley-ceo-stephen-c-neal-will",
        "published": "2026-11-10T10:40:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "PC Gamer",
        "title": "Trump calls his pal Jensen Huang an ‘honourable guy’ and says he ‘probably has an excuse’ for Nvidia CEO’s affair with alleged spy",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/trump-calls-his-pal-jensen-huang-an-honourable-guy-and-says-he",
        "published": "2026-11-10T14:01:26.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour",
        "title": "Nvidia and Huang face lawsuit alleging investors were misled about spy affair",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/nvidia-and-huang-face-lawsuit-alleging-investors-were-misled-about",
        "published": "2026-11-10T18:32:31.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Nvidia hires law firm Wachtell Lipton to investigate Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy, to be led by former acting US attorney Joon H. Kim (New York Times)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/nvidia-hires-law-firm-wachtell-lipton-to-investigate-jensen-huangs",
        "published": "2026-11-10T19:25:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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