Everything we know so far about the Nvidia spy scandal targeting CEO Jensen Huang

The Verge • 11/9/2026 – 11/10/2026

Summary

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has acknowledged an affair with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, leading to an investigation by the company. US intelligence reports have identified Alice Huang as a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security and as an executive for an AI compute company renting access to Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia has played a significant role in the Trump administration’s AI initiatives and has a market cap exceeding $4 trillion. Both Nvidia and Jensen Huang have stated they have “no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised,” but the investigation is ongoing.

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