Nvidia CEO Confesses to Affair with Suspected Chinese Spy
The top executive of one of the country’s largest high-tech firms has admitted to having had a romantic relationship with a woman who’s believed to have been a Chinese spy.
“I owe my family and all of you an apology,” Nvideia CEO Jensen Huang wrote in a company-wide email reviewed this weekend by Axios. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did.”
BREAKING: Nvidia, $NVDA, CEO Jensen Huang sends a company-wide email regarding his recently reported relationship with a Chinese spy. https://t.co/NTdoSgaxoy
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 8, 2026
According to The New York Times, the woman in question, identified as Alice Huang (no relation to the CEO) was allegedly recruited by China’s main spy agency to seek information about Nvidia’s highly desired advanced chips and potentially convince the company to make its chips available in China.
The Trump administration reportedly knew about Alice Huang’s machinations as early as last spring, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw the drafting of a classified memo warning that Jensen Huang was dating a spy.
“Mr. Rubio’s memo was circulated to administration officials with high-level security clearances ahead of a trip Mr. Trump took to China in May,” The New York Times reported, citing “people briefed on the matter.”
Nvidia responded to Jensen Huang’s email by saying the company’s board had opened an investigation into the matter but stressed in a statement that it had “no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised” by the affair.
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Jensen Huang will maintain his chief executive position during the investigation, according to The New York Times.
BREAKING: New photos of Jensen Huang and his alleged Chinese spy lover have been revealed https://t.co/NSuW8OxDUT
— Kalshi (@Kalshi) November 9, 2026
Aside from being a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security, Huang is also an executive at Megaspeed, described as a Singapore-based company that’s purchased billions in artificial intelligence chips from Nvidia.
Megaspeed “rents computing power from Nvidia chips to Alibaba and other Chinese firms,” according to The New York Times.
“U.S. officials suspect the company has helped smuggle restricted chips into China,” the paper reported.
As for Jensen Huang, he’s known to be a close ally to President Donald Trump. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Trump called Huang an “honorable guy” and said he should remain Nvidia’s CEO, according to Business Insider.
Although the Biden administration limited the sale of Nvidia chips to China, President Trump “ease[d] up on those constraints” after being directly persuaded by Jensen Huang, according to the New York Post.
Nvidia’s stock plummeted after Jensen Huang’s internal apology letter to Nvidia employees went viral on Monday.
BREAKING: Nvidia stock, $NVDA, falls over -5% in reaction to the Jensen Huang situation as premarket trading opens.
The stock has now erased -$225 billion in market cap today. https://t.co/QMIkJjxDHI
— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 9, 2026
John Rizzo, head of public policy communications at Nvidia, stressed in a statement that the company will keep charging ahead with Jensen Huang at the helm despite this burgeoning scandal.
“Today’s news will not slow NVIDIA,” he said, according to Axios. “Jensen is committed to continuing to lead NVIDIA as CEO without interruption.”
For its part, the Chinese government has denied that there was ever a plot to spy on Jensen Huang.
“The so-called Chinese spy allegation is unsubstantiated,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun said, according to The Associated Press. “It is nothing but smears against China.”
Meanwhile, congressional Democrats and Republicans have begun calling for Jensen Huang to testify before Congress.
Chairman @RepMoolenaar, Chairman @RepBrianMast, and Chairman @RepRickCrawford have sent a letter to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang asking him to appear before their three committees this month. The letter expresses concerns over NVIDIA’s security protocols against foreign adversary espionage and Mr. Huang’s reported ties to a Chinese intelligence-linked executive of a Singapore-based data center company.
— Select Committee on China (@ChinaSelect) November 5, 2026
“Huang and NVIDIA’s board owe Congress answers,” Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote on social media.
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