Nvidia CEO’s Affair Admission Counters Past Statements on Ties

(Bloomberg) -- For more than a year, Nvidia Corp. minimized the ties that Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang had with Megaspeed, the once-obscure spinoff of a Chinese gaming enterprise, and a woman named Huang Le who helped set it up.

Both Nvidia and Jensen Huang had characterized Megaspeed as a legitimate, albeit large, buyer of Nvidia's AI chips despite US government concerns that China could be using the Singapore-based firm to gain access to advanced semiconductors. And they'd described reports of Jensen's relationship with Huang Le, who also goes by Alice Huang, as professional in nature.

Just in the past two weeks, despite reports of a close relationship between the two, Jensen defended himself, calling their interactions "completely normal."

Those comments made Jensen Huang's admission that he'd cheated on his wife of more than four decades all the more shocking, contrasting with his and the company's past statements. On Sunday, Nvidia said its board was investigating whether he'd been "the target of a foreign intelligence effort," following reports that US officials suspected Alice Huang was hired by a Chinese spy agency. The revelations have left Jensen Huang's future as the face of the AI infrastructure boom and head of one of the world's most valuable companies hanging in the balance.

Jensen Huang's ties to Alice Huang date as far back as 2024. The New York Times reported in October 2025 that she was mingling with a group of tech executives at a bar in Taipei a year earlier when she bet she could get Jensen to join them. Shortly after Alice Huang reached out, the Times reported, Jensen Huang showed up and took a whiskey shot with the group.

In response to that report, Nvidia spokesman John Rizzo said at the time that the company's "field operations teams often host groups of customers and partners at conferences, and when Jensen is available, may ask him to visit to provide updates on the market."

Nvidia continued to defend its business with Megaspeed, a so-called neocloud that rents out access to computing power for AI workloads, when Bloomberg News reported last December that the US government had been investigating Megaspeed's ownership structure and whether the firm had diverted Nvidia chips to China. Such smuggling would represent a major breach of US curbs aimed at limiting China's AI and military prowess.