Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang affair: Who is Alice Huang aka Huang Le? Television reporter turned Megaspeed executive is linked to Jensen Huang, Chinese spying

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang affair has reportedly gone wrong as the AI chipmaker has stated that it had started a independent probe after a media report that founder and CEO Jensen Huang had been the target of a foreign intelligence effort. The announcement came after Huang acknowledged to the board that he had been intimate with a business executive whom U.S. intelligence determined was gathering information for Beijing, The New York Times reported. Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang is married to Lori Huang. Both were engineering students at Oregon State University. The couple shares two children, son Spencer Huang and daughter Madison Huang.

Top Republican lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have called on 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.



Jensen Huang Affair

The New York Times reported that US intelligence officials concluded that the woman, a Chinese executive linked to a Singapore-based data center company called Megaspeed, had been funnelling information to Beijing.

The executive, Alice Huang -- also known as Huang Le, and no relation to 63-year-old Taiwanese-born Jensen Huang -- developed a close relationship with the Nvidia boss, the Times said.

Alice Huang was previously a television reporter in China before becoming a top executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed, which has become one of Nvidia’s biggest customers in Southeast Asia. Megaspeed bought more than $4.8 billion worth of Nvidia chips over the past two years, according to the Times.

In a message to company employees released Sunday, Huang acknowledged having an affair and apologized to both his family and company staff. Huang apologized in the message to the company, according to the Times. “I was unfaithful to my wife,” he said. “My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.”

Jensen Huang To Resign?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a key figure in the artificial intelligence revolution and close to President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly spoken out against regulating the industry so as not to let China gain the upper hand in the AI race.

The Times said Huang's relationship with the other Huang could have given her insights into Trump's thinking around AI. The issue of AI is likely to arise during Trump's planned talks with President Xi Jinping later this month at a summit in China.

Nvidia said in a statement it opened an independent probe "in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort." It did not name a country.

The statement added: "While the Board has no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised, the Board's inquiry will examine all available information."

The Chinese government has dismissed the Times report as "groundless speculation."

63-year-old Jensen Huang will remain CEO during the investigation.