Jensen Huang Apologizes to His Wife as Nvidia Probes Alleged Foreign Spy Plot

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has acknowledged being intimate with a business executive and issued an apology to his wife and to the company, according to an open letter posted on Nvidia’s website. Huang did not identify the woman in his statement. The personal admission comes as Nvidia investigates reports that Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. The company announced on Sunday that it had begun an independent inquiry into the claims, which were reported by The New York Times. The newspaper said U.S. intelligence had assessed that the woman was gathering information for Beijing. It also reported that Huang had developed a close relationship with a Chinese citizen named Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed International. The article said the company’s website highlights its partnership with Nvidia and that it had faced allegations last year of illicitly shipping advanced Nvidia chips to China. Huang said he supports the investigation and will cooperate fully. In the letter, he also expressed commitment to protecting Nvidia and supporting U.S. national security. The company has not publicly named the executive at the center of the reports. China rejected the spying allegations on Monday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun called them unsubstantiated and described them as a smear campaign against Beijing, according to the report. China had previously dismissed The New York Times’ account of Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang. The claims remain under investigation, and the article does not report that the alleged intelligence activity has been established. Megaspeed and Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs had not immediately responded to requests for comment, the report said.