I don’t see why an industry captain should apologize to his employees or anybody outside of his family because he has been unfaithful to his wife. Sounds bad and it may be bad for Jensen Huang to have been willing to have an affair. Let’s say it was bad. It’s not this aspect of his bad decision that harms employees or Americans at large.
The aspect that may harm us all is that he initiated this affair with someone who either already was a spy or was then recruited to be a spy for the Chinese Communist Party (Wall Street Journal, November 8, 2026).
U.S. officials last year concluded that Chinese citizen Alice Huang, then a top executive at Megaspeed International, was sharing information with the Chinese government while working with Nvidia to build data centers in Asia, The Wall Street Journal earlier reported. Huang, who also goes by Huang Le, isn’t related to the Nvidia CEO.
Jensen Huang apologized to his staff Sunday for being unfaithful to his wife.
“I owe my family and all of you an apology,” Huang wrote. “There is no excuse for what I did.” The CEO and his wife, Lori Huang, have been married for about 40 years and have two adult children who work for Nvidia.
The company’s board said in a statement Sunday it has no reason to believe either the company’s secrets or national security were compromised and expressed confidence in the CEO’s leadership. A committee of independent directors helped by outside counsel would oversee the probe, the board said, and the “inquiry will examine all available information.”…
Megaspeed’s name surfaced in deliberations in recent weeks over whether or not to publish the names of several dozen companies, including firms based in China or affiliated with Chinese companies, to the government’s U.S. Entity List, some of the people familiar with the matter said.
Such a move would have formally prohibited U.S. companies from doing business with Megaspeed and the other companies and subjected them to strict export controls. So far, neither Megaspeed nor the other firms have been added to the list, and agency officials have decided to put decisions about it in the hands of higher-ranking government officials involved in negotiating U.S.-China trade issues, these people said.
Huang would have been a threat to national security with or without the affair with a spy for Beijing.
The investigation comes as Huang lobbies the U.S. government and leaders around the world to allow the free flow of chips powering the latest AI models [including to mainland China] and attempts to rebut concerns that such an approach [of allowing the free flow of high-end AI chips to China] could compromise national security. Huang’s role leading the world’s top chip designer has made him a global technology superstar but has drawn criticism from skeptics in and out of government who oppose Nvidia’s advocacy efforts.
U.S. intelligence had apparently known for more than a year that Huang Le was working for Chinese intelligence. But they did not alert the Nvidia leader. A recent leak to the press about the U.S. investigation of Huang Le and about her relationship with Jensen Huang is what alerted him.
Like his intelligence agencies, President Trump had known of the problem well before publication of recent reports. But, if an account by The New York Times is accurate, he was reluctant to act on the information for fear of “disrupting Nvidia’s chip sales…and of further complicating the trading relationship with China.” Annoy Xi and the Party just a little too much and the rickety house of cards could come tumbling down.
