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- Nvidia’s board of directors is opening an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang.
- The company said it’s investigating whether Huang was the “target of a foreign intelligence effort.”
- Huang said he had been “unfaithful” to his wife in a memo to Nvidia employees.
On Sunday, Nvidia said its board of directors opened an independent investigation into whether Jensen Huang had been the “target of a foreign intelligence effort.”
Huang shared a memo with Nvidia employees earlier in the day in which he said he had been “unfaithful” to his wife.
In October, The New York Times reported that US officials believed that a Chinese intelligence asset, Alice Huang, had developed a relationship with the Nvidia CEO. Alice Huang is an executive for Megaspeed, an Nvidia customer.
As Nvidia teeters on the edge of a national security scandal, some business and tech leaders have begun to weigh in. Here’s what they’re saying.
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