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Nvidia board opens probe after CEO Jensen Huang admits affair

techNov 9, 202610111,097

Nvidia’s board said Sunday it has opened an independent investigation after CEO Jensen Huang admitted in a company memo that he was unfaithful and had a relationship with Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman whom U.S. intelligence agencies have reported was recruited to spy for China. The board said a committee of independent directors, assisted by outside independent counsel, will oversee the inquiry and that it will examine all available information while prioritizing U.S. national and economic security. Nvidia added it has no reason to believe that national security or company secrets were compromised but will investigate the matter fully. U.S. news reports say Alice Huang’s Singapore-based company was buying Nvidia’s advanced chips and that intelligence agencies had placed her under surveillance. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun called the spy allegation unsubstantiated and described it as smears against China. Nvidia is the world’s second-largest publicly traded company, valued at nearly 4.5 trillion dollars, and its shares fell nearly 5 percent in early premarket trading, erasing about 230 billion dollars in value. Huang, 63, has been a high-profile industry ambassador and received the National Medal of Science in October from President Donald Trump.

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Q: When exactly were you made aware of the intelligence around Jensen Huang? TRUMP: Oh, I'd have to check Q: But there are reports that Rubio put out an intelligence memo last year. Did you read it? TRUMP: It could have been mentioned. Certainly it didn't make much of an impact on me.

23033d ago
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Ambassador Greg Delawie60

Trump does not care about Chinese spying on the US

Ian Miles Schlong22

18 U.S. Code § 2382 - Misprision of treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States…

Yell In a War19

in his defense, many people have been unimpressed by Rubio’s intelligence

tomwellborn3rd11

Rubio reportedly wrote an intel memo on Huang and his alleged spy girlfriend last year, and Trump says it didn't make much of an impact on him. Lazy, incurious, and dangerous. Orange McFuckface has the nuclear codes and he's tuned the fuck out.

Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺10

Rubio covered his ass & let yours hang in the freezing cold. This scandal, imo, has legs.

Derek Fox7

“Oh, I’d have to check” = long time ago “It could have been mentioned” = I recall it so clearly… “It didn’t make much of an impact in me” = …because I saw immediately how this gave me leverage over the most valuable company on the planet

Maj6

No impact on me at all. It’s not like I got honeypotted so hard that I married it or anything…

tomwellborn3rd5

Little Marco owns a Screaming Pillow and it never enjoys any time off.

Robert Mackey4

"Certainly it didn't make much of an impact on me" ... that someone I invited to join me on an official visit to China, brought to the White House to advise me on AI and asked to sit at my table with China's president at a state dinner a few weeks ago was comprised by Chinese intelligence

Jeff Domingues3

“Did you read it?” Unanswered question of the day.

John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social

Jensen Huang is 63, swanning around in a leather jacket, getting hustled by a honeypot in a club. I just think of my dad, after watching a Trump speech, shaking his head and saying "This is not how adult men talk."

18203d ago
emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social

The shareholder lawsuits are gonna be lit, bc Nvidia has been lying to the press abt this. www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

7613d ago
Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

Nvidia's board "has no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised" by a professional spy love that baseless, premature confidence!

3763d ago
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