The Nvidia CEO's contacts with Trump are being questioned after the spying scandal

It was after a new infidelity affair with a subordinate was revealed that the AI ​​giant Nvidia on Wednesday held a crisis meeting about the future of the CEO.

Jensen Huang was already suspected of having walked into a so-called honey trap and had an affair with a designated Chinese spy, Alice Huang, who happens to have the same last name.

She was previously an executive at the Singapore-based company Megaspeed, which US authorities say has ties to Chinese intelligence.

According to the suspicions, Alice Huang's mission was to ensure that Chinese companies were supplied with Nvidia chips. According to the CFR, one way to overcome them is for companies in Malaysia or Singapore to sell them on to China, or for Chinese companies to rent foreign data centers with the AI ​​chip.

Alice Huang herself has not commented on the data and seems to have gone underground.

Megaspeed states in a statement on Linkedin that previous investigations did not demonstrate anything illegal or that technology would have been passed on to China.

Huang admitted in an email to his employees that he had been unfaithful, but said nothing more.

Several major American newspapers write that the board is preparing to fire Huang. According to the Financial Times, a former prosecutor has been hired as an investigator. An alternative to firing him is that he may step back until the investigation is complete, according to the FT. At the same time, you can search for a new manager in the meantime.

So far, however, the board has stood behind Jensen Huang, and claims that "there is no reason to believe that national security or company secrets have been compromised".

Jensen Huang's contacts with Donald Trump, which people in the American administration have long considered to have been problematic, are now also being examined.

Huang wanted Nvidia to export AI chips to the Chinese market, which was seen as a national security concern. From 2022, exports have been subject to restrictions, because they wanted to slow down Chinese technological development. This was a policy agreed upon across party lines: Nvidia's advanced AI chips would not be allowed to be exported to China.

When Trump was re-elected in November 2024, Huang, through intense lobbying, gained a special position with the president and had his ear, the Wall Street Journal said. For the past two years, he has had "tremendous influence over US AI policy".

Huang was personally behind Trump lifting restrictions on the export of Nvidia's H20 chip to Chinese customers in 2025, according to the newspaper. This was done through a very unusual and criticized agreement where the US government would receive 15 percent of Nvidia's sales revenue from the Chinese market.

Later, the further developed chip H200 was also covered. However, the very most advanced technology is still not allowed to be exported.

Although for Nvidia it was about expanding their business, there were also people who even then questioned Jensen Huang's motives, without knowing about the deal with Alice Huang. "He would have sold chips to the Chinese military, if the government allowed it." says a source in the Wall Street Journal.

Jensen Huang's argument for the sale of chips to China was that restrictions and bans did not slow the country down, but on the contrary spurred its own technology development.