Jensen Huang reported to have had an extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy; Trump and Silicon Valley publicly voice support
Silicon Valley and Trump rally behind Nvidia CEO after his affair with alleged Chinese spy
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang admitted an extramarital affair to employees, and the NVIDIA board announced the same day that it had launched an internal investigation into reports that he was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation; Trump, Musk and several investors publicly voiced support over the weekend, with Trump saying Huang should continue as CEO. According to The New York Times, U.S. intelligence agencies suspect that the businessperson Alice Huang, who had dealings with him, engages in espionage for the Chinese government, and believe she pushed Huang to lobby Trump to relax NVIDIA's chip export restrictions to China, which Huang has publicly done multiple times. NVIDIA said that neither trade secrets nor U.S. national security were harmed. Huang has led the chip company, valued at more than 4 trillion dollars, for 33 years.
The incident pushes the dispute over chip export controls to China and allegations of foreign intelligence infiltration simultaneously onto the question of NVIDIA's leadership, and public alignments in U.S. political and business circles can be observed.