Jensen Huang, the former Nvidia CEO, is under fresh fire after a new report claimed he lied to some of the company’s top executives about his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang.
Reuters investigation alleged that Huang told them he had business dealings with Alice as part of normal business with a customer, but they were an extramarital affair. This adds another dimension to the controversy over technology billionaire Huang’s resignation and its national security implications.
People familiar with the matter and internal documents reviewed by Reuters said Huang had briefed several senior Nvidia executives (General Counsel Tim Teter, Chief Marketing Officer Alison Wagonfeld) about his interactions with Alice Huang. In separate messages sent in October 2026, he reportedly described their meetings and communications as “normal business engagement with customers” and that his company’s dealings with Megaspeed International (where Alice Huang was a senior executive) were “regular commercial activity”. Reuters said it was the first news organisation to report on internal correspondence but agreed not to publish them verbatim.
The report also showed that questions about Jensen Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang had reached Nvidia leadership much earlier. In the autumn of 2025 (after media attention focused on their public meetings), Huang reportedly told some company executives about the relationship but “didn’t call it an affair,” people familiar with those discussions said, and maintained that they were OK.
Huang reportedly gave the same explanation again in October 2026, when fresh media inquiries brought the issue back to senior company officials' attention. Reuters looked at the October correspondence but did not independently review the 2025 communications.
The relationship has been in the news because Alice Huang is professionally associated with Megaspeed International (a Singapore company that does business with Nvidia). Alice Huang (who is not related to Jensen Huang even though they share the same surname) has reportedly been investigated by US authorities for links to Chinese intelligence.
Investigators reportedly looked into whether Megaspeed had connections that could get advanced Nvidia artificial intelligence chips into China despite US export controls. But Reuters could not independently verify allegations that she works for the Chinese government and Beijing has denied it is a spy. Jensen Huang also told Bloomberg on Oct. 29 that the US government had not informed him of its suspicions about Alice Huang.
The controversy escalated when reports appeared about Huang’s personal relationships and their impact on Nvidia’s corporate governance. The New York Times had previously covered public meetings between Jensen Huang and Alice Huang in October 2025. Huang was said to have discussed suing the newspaper after publication, but neither Huang nor Nvidia filed a lawsuit. People familiar with the matter say earlier reporting also “led to internal discussion” about how he interacted with the businesswoman.
Meanwhile, Nvidia’s independent board members have hired Wall Street law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz to conduct an independent probe into the controversy. Reports by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal about Huang’s relationships and suspicions surrounding Alice Huang prompted the investigation.
The board review is especially timely because Nvidia is a leading supplier of advanced AI chips and national security concerns surround those technologies. Investigators will look to see if confidential corporate information or sensitive technology details were shared in the relationship.
Huang’s resignation as Nvidia CEO on 12 November 2026 has only added fuel to the fire around the company. He had stepped down after a series of reports about extramarital affairs (relationships with other people connected to Nvidia), and he had already admitted to being unfaithful to his wife and apologised to her family and company, but the Reuters revelations in this latest round of news raise more questions about how he told senior execs when the allegations first emerged and whether they got the whole story.
The fallout could be wider for Nvidia, affecting investor confidence, corporate transparency and internal governance practices. Nvidia is one of the most powerful companies in the global AI industry (its processors are central to data centres, cloud computing and advanced AI development), so any leadership controversy (and possible national security issues) will be closely watched by regulators, investors and policymakers.
For now, the independent investigation is still part of the story. The latest report doesn’t prove that Nvidia confidential information was sent to China or that Alice Huang acted on behalf of Chinese intelligence, but the allegations that Jensen Huang told senior executives his relationship was routine business dealings have caused serious questions about transparency at the highest levels of the company. What comes out of the board’s investigation will be key in determining whether it was Huang’s conduct or corporate governance and compliance issues involved.
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