Jensen Huang’s Troubles Leave the AI Industry Reeling
No executive has pulled the strings in the artificial intelligence era quite like Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang. He parlayed the boom into incredible wealth, became a close confidant of President Donald Trump, and emerged as a prominent voice in US-China relations. That now all stands in the balance.
Over the last few days, Huang’s status as an AI titan has come under scrutiny amid an admission that he had an affair with Alice Huang, an executive at a Singapore-based company whom US intelligence services concluded was a Chinese intelligence asset.
Nvidia’s board of directors saidthat the company would launch an investigation into the incident. Huang, the company said, “fully supports the review and has committed to cooperating with it.” Huang earned $36 million last year, owned about 3.5 percent of Nvidia as of March, according to a corporate filing—which also noted that Huang is an at-will employee...
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