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November 8, 2026, at 4:30 p.m. Pacific time (7:30 p.m. Eastern time).
The board of directors of Nvidia has opened an independent investigation into whether chief executive Jensen Huang was targeted by Chinese intelligence operatives, hours after the semiconductor icon sent a stunning internal memo to employees acknowledging an extramarital affair with a Singaporean technology executive.
Huang, who has led Nvidia from its 1993 founding into a $4.5 trillion global artificial intelligence powerhouse, wrote to company staff that he had engaged in a personal relationship outside his marriage that caused deep pain to his family. The disclosure follows classified briefings delivered to congressional leaders warning that U.S. counterintelligence officials suspect his lover, Alice Huang—a managing director at Singapore-based cloud provider Megaspeed—was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) to compromise the American chipmaker’s executive suite.
Nvidia confirmed that a special committee composed entirely of independent directors has retained outside legal counsel to conduct a forensic review of Huang’s communications, meetings, and hardware deployments. The company emphasized that preliminary assessments have found no evidence that proprietary chip architectures, trade secrets, or U.S. national security data were compromised.