WASHINGTON â She only loved him for his chips.
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang, whose company produces the world’s most cutting-edge AI chips, admitted to having an affair â amid reports that Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned months ago that his lover was a Chinese spy.
Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, which purchased AI chips from Nvidia, was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security, Beijing’s spy agency, the memo overseen by Rubio concluded, according to a New York Times report.
It’s not clear how long the Huang-Huang bang bang lasted.
The Biden administration had limited the sales of high-end Nvidia chips to China amid the AI race, but the Nvidia CEO pushed the Trump administration to ease up on those constraints.
Nvidia’s board announced Sunday it launched a probe into whether Jensen was a “target of a foreign intelligence effort,” but stressed that it still has “confidence in Jensen and his leadership team.”
Other prominent Americans have been victims of honeypot operations by suspected Chinese spies, including disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), who had a fling with Christine Fang, also known as “Fang Fang.”