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5 min readIn early 2025, the CEO of the world's most valuable company admitted to having an affair—with an alleged Chinese spy. Jensen Huang of Nvidia sent a mass email to employees confessing he was "unfaithful to my wife" after U.S. intelligence reportedly obtained proof that Alice Huang (no relation), an executive at the Singapore-based cloud company Megaspeed, was operating as a foreign intelligence asset. Her alleged mission: to influence Huang to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on Nvidia chip sales to China. That lobbying effort had already been underway for months, and it had been remarkably successful. The story raises a question the episode cannot definitively answer but explores in depth: did Jensen Huang know, or was he a naive target?
The Affair, the Company, and the Investigation
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:01) **The Central Allegation: Jensen Huang and a Chinese Spy** - The host introduces the explosive claim: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with Alice Swang, who is alleged to be a Chinese spy, leading to potential leaks of AI and national security secrets.
- 2 (02:26) **The Key Player: Alice Huang and Megaspeed** - The host introduces Alice Huang, an executive at a Singapore-based cloud AI company called Megaspeed, who has been photographed with Jensen Huang since 2024.
- 3 (04:14) **The Story Breaks: A Memo to Trump and a Public Revelation** - The host describes how the situation escalated in spring 2025, leading to Jensen Huang being left off a presidential trip to China.
- 4 (05:33) **Jensen Huang's Internal Email: An Apology and a Defense** - The host reads key excerpts from Jensen Huang's email to employees, where he apologizes for the affair but denies knowingly leaking secrets.
- 5 (07:33) **The NVIDIA Board's Response: An Independent Investigation** - The host reads the board's statement, which announces an independent investigation but expresses confidence in Jensen Huang's leadership.
- 6 (08:30) **The Web of Companies: Beyond Megaspeed** - The host reveals that the investigation involves a wider network of companies, not just Megaspeed, that appear to be satellite entities near China.
- 7 (10:24) **The Regulator's Role: The Commerce Department's Inaction** - The host criticizes the US Commerce Department for knowing about Megaspeed's potential implications but still allowing NVIDIA to sell chips to them.
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Show Notes
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an affair with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive US intelligence believes was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security. Her alleged goal: get Jensen to lobby Washington to loosen export controls on AI chips. Ejaaz walks through how we got here, from a party in Taipei and a $2 billion GPU deal to a classified memo, Jensen's email to staff and the Nvidia board's investigation.
We also cover the bigger questions: did Jensen know, why the Commerce Department didn't act, the web of companies buying Nvidia chips near China, Jensen's case for selling chips to China, and the four fronts of the US-China AI race: chips, power, people and models.
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Timestamps
00:00 Jensen Huang's Spy Scandal
02:26 Who Is Alice Huang?
04:14 The Memo and the Plane
04:59 The Story Breaks
05:33 Jensen's Email
06:17 Did She Influence Him?
07:34 Nvidia's Board Responds
08:30 The Megaspeed Web
10:25 Why Didn't Commerce Act?
12:04 Jensen's China Argument
15:04 Chips vs Compute
16:14 China's Four Fronts
18:25 Shenzhen and What's Next
19:53 Final Thoughts
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