Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Resigns Amid Espionage and Affair Allegations

The reports describe one relationship with Alice Huang, who is not related to Jensen Huang and works for Megaspeed, a Singapore-based cloud provider and Nvidia customer. She was also allegedly a surveillance operative who passed information to China’s Ministry of State Security, with a focus on advanced US AI chips and efforts to influence which technology would be made available to China.

Huang has led Nvidia since its founding in 1993. The company has become a leading supplier of chips used to develop and deploy AI in the United States, where demand for its products often exceeds supply. Its roughly $99 billion investment portfolio, which includes frontier AI labs and neocloud companies, has also given Nvidia significant influence across the sector. Huang has maintained a close relationship with President Donald Trump in recent years.

The account also refers to a second alleged relationship with an Nvidia executive who reported to Huang. The source provides no further details about that allegation or the circumstances of the board’s decision.