Tag: Huang, Alice (Technology Executive)

The Fall of Jensen Huang: How the Nvidia Scandal Unfolded

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Approximate date A suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang starts a firm to sidestep U.S. rules on chips. ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 ’26 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 ’26 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 ’26 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 ’26 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 ’26 2023 Alice Huang creates the Singaporean data center firm Megaspeed, which originally had Chinese owners. It would soon buy billions of dollars in Nvidia A.I. chips. Read more › December 2023 It’s not clear when Nvidia’s chief first met Alice Huang or when their affair began, but in…

Nvidia Scandal Unleashes a Flood of AI-Generated Memes

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Jensen Huang and his leather-clad likeness had become synonymous with the technological giant he co-founded, Nvidia. They were so entwined that, this year, the company sold $178 sweaters with a pixel-art version of Mr. Huang on the front. Now, in the wake of Mr. Huang’s resignation on Thursday after back-to-back cheating scandals, including an extramarital affair with a woman the U.S. government believes is a Chinese spy, the internet has taken ahold of his image to unleash a flood of memes. In many cases, they are being made by A.I.…

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Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, resigned on Thursday after revelations that he had an affair with an executive who reported to him as well as with a woman whom U.S. officials had identified as a Chinese spy. The chip company’s 10-member board met for several hours Wednesday evening and agreed to name Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, as interim chief executive, until a permanent successor has been named. The board said on Thursday that it would begin a search for a permanent replacement and would consider internal and…

Wall Street Sees the Writing on the Wall for Jensen Huang

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Andrew here. Put yourself in the shoes of Nvidia’s board: Would you fire Jensen Huang? An affair with a customer who U.S. intelligence officials determined was a spy for China, as well as what The Times reported was a relationship with an employee, would typically be grounds for removal. At best, these scandals are a distraction. At worst, they make managing the nearly $4 trillion chipmaker virtually impossible, especially if credible evidence emerges that Huang knew about Nvidia chips improperly going to China. Yet does his centrality to the company…

In China’s Spy Operations, Romance Can Be a Long Game

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At the height of the Cold War, a top official in China’s intelligence agency said that his country would never use seduction to entrap a person. Such tactics might be for the C.I.A. or the K.G.B., the official named Kong Yuan, of the Central Investigation Department, told a group of agents in training in April 1960, but China was guided by principles. He looked at the few female comrades in the audience. “Rest assured, we will not be asking you to go run beauty traps.” Despite that pledge, captured in…

Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship With Nvidia Executive Who Reports to Him

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Jensen Huang, the leader of Nvidia who is under investigation for an affair with a woman who U.S. intelligence determined is a Chinese spy, also had an extramarital relationship with an executive who reports to him, according to five people who worked at the company. The relationship, which has not been previously reported, was with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care, said the people, who spoke under the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information. Under Nvidia’s code of conduct, employees are told to “avoid situations where our…

Trump Officials Clashed Over Megaspeed, Firm at Heart of Nvidia Affair

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick last week over his handling of a Singaporean company at the heart of revelations about Chinese spying on Nvidia, demanding to know why the United States had not already banned sales of advanced A.I. chips to the firm. The exchange, which took place at the White House on Thursday and was described by people briefed on it, highlighted growing tensions inside the Trump administration over A.I. policy in general and the Commerce Department’s posture toward Nvidia in particular. The internal debate…