Nvidia chip maker announced tonight that she ordered an independent investigation into the extramarital relationship of her founder and executive director Jensen Huang with an alleged Chinese spy, a former federal prosecutor.
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11/11/2026
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A nvidia chip maker announced tonight that he ordered an independent investigation into the extramarital relationship of its founder and executive director Jensen Huang with an alleged Chinese spy, a former federal prosecutor.
“ The independent members of Nvidia’s board hired former interim prosecutor of the South District of New York, Joon H. Kim, and his firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to conduct an exhaustive and independent investigation, as announced on Sunday,” the company said today in a statement.
The Technology Council announced on Sunday that it was opening an independent investigation in the light of information pointing out that Huang was “targeted by a foreign intelligence operation”, referring to a report from The New York newspaper Times about your adventure with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang.
Huang admitted in a letter to his employees, published on the Nvidia website that same day, that he had been “infidel” to his wife and had also hurt his two children, who work at Nvidia, and in the same text he committed to collaborating in the investigations and reiterated his “love” for the company and the United States.
Former prosecutor Joon H. Kim, who will lead the investigation into Huang, is a lawyer with a wide experience who has worked on accusations of “white collar”, from fraud to corruption, with notable cases in his charge as the Fyre Festival fiasco or the sexual harassment scandal of former governor Andrew Cuomo.
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, one of Wall Street's most prestigious law firms, has been headlined this year both by a viral video of two employees from different positions caught kissing in a park and by the departure of some high profile lawyers, in a time of great competition for talent in the sector.
US President Donald Trump defended Huang, with whom he narrowed the relationship in a second term marked by Washington's involvement in the acceleration of the development of artificial intelligence (IA), and yesterday assured him that the entrepreneur told him not to be a Chinese spy.
Trump said the FBI was investigating Huang on another matter, while the Department of Commerce focused on Alice Huang's company, Megaspeed, for allegedly facilitating China's access to advanced Nvidia AI chips, according to NYT.
After the revelations, this Monday Nvidia's shares fell by more than 4%, which represents a major loss for the company, which usually disputes with Apple the category of the world's largest quota, and the movement has already triggered an individual process that intends to become collective.
One shareholder, Mark Kirstenmacher, requested in the court of the Northern District of California that his indictment of scholarship fraud against Nvidia be prosecuted as a collective action on behalf of those who acquired values between October 9, 2025 and November 8, 2026, as they were allegedly “misleaded” by Huang’s “missions.”.
According to the request, the conduct of Nvidia and its chief executive artificially kept the price of chip designer titles high and caused investors to lose money when the details of the case were known.
A U.S. intelligence report indicated that Alice Huang was recruited to gather information about Nvidia's leader as part of an initiative by Beijing's largest spy agency to get details on American AI chips and influence so the most advanced were available to China.