Jensen Huang Carried a Secret for More Than a Year. It Led to His Downfall.

Nvidia’s board faced a leadership crisis after chief executive Jensen Huang admitted he had concealed an affair with a customer, Alice Huang, following more than a year of publicly describing their relationship as business-only. The article says a separate affair with an executive who reported to him came to light as well, and Huang resigned less than 24 hours after the board convened to discuss his future.

The revelations have implications beyond Nvidia, which the article describes as central to the artificial intelligence boom and the US economy. They have prompted renewed debate in Washington over exports of US technology to China and exposed tensions among senior administration officials. The article says Megaspeed, the Singaporean data centre firm led by Alice Huang, had bought more than $2 billion of Nvidia technology in a year; US intelligence had also alleged she was secretly working with China’s top spy agency.