Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to affair with 'Chinese spy'

Founder of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has admitted having an matter with a pistillate the United States quality assemblage believes was moving arsenic a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security.

The woman, Alice Huang, a.k.a. Huang Le, is simply a Chinese national and a apical enforcement astatine Singapore-based Megaspeed, a large Nvidia lawsuit suspected of helping China get restricted AI chips.

“I beryllium my household and each of you an apology,” Jensen told employees successful a connection connected Sunday. "I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions wounded her and our children. There is nary excuse for what I did.”

The Nvidia Board has launched an autarkic probe pursuing the study that the main enforcement "has been the people of a overseas quality effort."

Independent directors, assisted by extracurricular autarkic counsel, volition oversee the probe, which "Jensen afloat supports and has committed to cooperating with it."

The board, successful a statement, said it prioritizes US nationalist and economical security, adding that there's nary crushed to judge institution secrets oregon nationalist information had been compromised.

Jensen, 63, faces bipartisan scrutiny from US lawmakers implicit his ties with Alice Huang, and a Commerce Department clearance fixed to New Matrix, a steadfast assembling chips for Nvidia successful Beijing.

Jensen is 13th connected the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with astir $150.9 billion, aft sliding retired of the world's apical 10 richest radical pursuing earlier peaks adjacent $200 cardinal successful precocious 2025.

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