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Jensen Huang's espionage investigation
On November 8, the Nvidia Board initiated an independent investigation regarding reports that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been "the target of a foreign intelligence effort."
On November 8, the Nvidia Board initiated an independent investigation regarding reports that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort.

On the same day, Huang issued a memo to Nvidia employees, apologizing for having an affair. Many reports have linked the affair to Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman whom US intelligence believed had been recruited to spy for China.

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