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Nvidia investigates CEO’s affair with Chinese spy
Technology giant and artificial chip manufacturer Nvidia says it is launching an independent investigation after a media report that its founder and CEO Jensen Huang had been the target of a foreign intelligence effort and extramarital affair.
Top Republican members of Congress in the US House of Representatives have called on Mr Huang to brief Congress this month about a New York Times report in October alleging he had a close relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who passed information to Beijing. The media outlet reported last month that US authorities were also investigating Alice Huang, a former executive of Singapore-based company Megaspeed, which buys AI chips from Nvidia. It is suspected that Huang is having an affair with the former executive.
Nvidia said that while its board had no reason to believe that either US national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised, its inquiry would examine all available information, and that Mr Huang fully supports the review and has committed to cooperating with it.