CEO of $4.5T chipmaker Nvidia admits affair — as Rubio memo warned lover was Chinese spy

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has acknowledged an affair with Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, a company that bought Nvidia AI chips. The story matters because a memo overseen by Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly assessed that Alice Huang had been recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security, raising questions about whether Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation.

Nvidia’s board said on Sunday that it had opened an investigation into that possibility, while expressing confidence in Huang and his leadership team. The article does not say how long the affair lasted. It also notes that Huang had urged the Trump administration to ease restrictions on sales of advanced Nvidia chips to China, and cites former US congressman Eric Swalwell as another American linked to a suspected Chinese “honeypot” operation.