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Nvidia has no obvious successor to Jensen Huang — and that's a problem

Catch up quick: Huang — who founded the chips giant, serves as its all-powerful CEO and exerts significant influence over the global AI economy — admitted to having an affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 6 sources•1 min read•Updated November 9, 2026, 9:04 PM UTC
Key points
  • Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang has admitted having an affair two days after the FT reported his alleged romantic relationship with a woman the US intelligence community believes was working as a spy for China.
  • | Image: The Verge I would prefer that these people's sex lives were none of my business but I guess we have to talk about Jensen Huang and the National Security Incident.
  • Jensen Huang is practically synonymous with Nvidia, the chipmaker he co-founded in 1993 and turned into one of the most valuable companies on the planet.

Huang built Nvidia as a family business but after the co-founder had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, its board faces a difficult decision For more than 30 years, Jensen Huang has been the seemingly unshakable public face of Nvidia.

Additional details
  • That was before she became "an executive" at Megaspeed, which bought $4.8 billion of hard-to-get Nvidia chips, starting around the time she was being photographed with Jensen in a Taipei bar in 2024.
  • Huang revealed the affair in an internal message to employees on Sunday that was obtained by the FT.
  • Alice Huang - no relation to Jensen - is a former TV reporter.
  • The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier.
  • “I owe my family and all of you an apology,” Huang said in the message.

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CNBCNovember 9, 2026, 9:04 PM UTC → AxiosNovember 9, 2026, 8:48 PM UTC → The Guardian TechnologyNovember 9, 2026, 8:27 PM UTC → TechCrunchNovember 9, 2026, 8:09 PM UTC → The VergeNovember 9, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC → Ars TechnicaNovember 9, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC →

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