Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the keynote at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference at Moscone Center on September 15, 2026 in San Francisco, California.
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Nvidia has launched an investigation into co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s ties to a businessman who intelligence agencies say is a Chinese spy.
According to reports in the New York Times and the Financial Times, U.S. intelligence agencies have raised concerns that a woman named Alice Huang, a customer of Nvidia at a cloud company called MegaSpeed, is passing information to Chinese spies.
Huang told Nvidia staff in an email on Sunday that he had an affair with the woman and that Nvidia’s board of directors had launched an independent investigation into the spying charges.
“I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did,” Huang wrote in the message. “I am truly sorry.”
An Nvidia spokesperson said Huang is committed to continuing as Nvidia’s CEO without interruption.
Nvidia’s board of directors said in a statement that it would investigate allegations that Huang was the target of foreign intelligence operations.
“While the board has no reason to believe that national security or NVIDIA’s confidentiality has been compromised, the board’s investigation will examine all available information,” the NVIDIA board said in a statement.
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