Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to infidelity
Last Sunday (8 Nov), Jensen Huang, the CEO of American tech titan Nvidia, admitted to having an extramarital affair in a company-wide email.
The Taiwanese-American founder said that he was unfaithful to his wife of 41 years, Lori Mills Huang.
Since his public letter, reports have surfaced of an alleged second mistress — Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare.
Jensen Huang apologises to family
In his email on 8 Nov, Huang apologised to his wife for hurting her and their two children, who are also employed at Nvidia.
“Throughout my life, my family has given me love and support […] Instead, I let them down and damaged the life we built together,” said Mr Huang.
I take full responsibility for what I did and the hurt I caused, and I accept the criticism that comes with it.
Source: Jensen Huang via LinkedIn
Huang did not name the woman he was involved with.
However, reports stated that he was having an affair with Alice Huang, a former executive of Singapore-based tech firm Megaspeed.
Ms Alice Huang, who has no biological relations to Jensen Huang, is a Chinese national.
The company she worked for rents out computing power to other companies to train and run artificial intelligence (AI).
According to its official website, Megaspeed has acted as “a core business partner of Nvidia’s computing power cloud business in the Asia-Pacific region”.
Ms Huang has since faced intense scrutiny over allegations of being a Chinese spy during her affair with Mr Huang.
Source: 黄小樂 via LinkedIn
Alice Huang allegedly recruited by Chinese government agency
According to the New York Times, a memo was first circulated among top policymakers in the Trump administration early last year.
The tipoff stated that a Chinese businesswoman, identified as Alice Huang, had a close relationship to Nvidia’s CEO and was working as a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security.
She was reportedly recruited to collect and subsequently provide insider information about American AI chips to Beijing’s top spy agency.
People briefed on the intelligence claimed that this would potentially influence the company to advocate for its most advanced chips to be made available to China.
Washington has enforced restrictions on international exports of Nvidia’s most cutting-edge silicon chips to China, citing national security concerns and strategies to stay ahead in the AI landscape.
Mr Huang is an influential ally to President Donald Trump. Reuters reported that the two shared a public alliance that dated from at least 2025.
Over the past two years, the CEO repeatedly voiced support for the Trump administration’s agenda and became a regular presence in Washington as Nvidia sought to sell advanced chips to the Chinese market.
Speaking to the press on 8 Nov, Trump called Mr Huang an “honourable guy” who has “done such an incredible job”.
Source: Forbes Breaking News via YouTube
Having spoken to Mr Huang about the affair on Monday (9 Nov), Trump later said at a White House briefing that he was “amazed” by the allegations.
He believed the CEO’s claim that he did not know Ms Huang was a spy.
“I know the FBI is looking into it,” Trump said. “I think that he’ll be in good shape.”
Allegations disputed by government authorities
On 30 Oct, reports from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) furthered the claim that Alice Huang was targeting Jensen Huang under the capacity of a spy.
The article stated that authorities in Singapore and Taiwan had investigated Ms Huang’s background and affiliations to China, even placing her under physical surveillance.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington rejected the allegations at the time, saying that China was opposed to the peddling of a “Chinese spy narrative” and its technological development was grounded in “independent innovation”.
In a statement on 31 Oct, Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) clarified that no such investigations were conducted on Alice Huang, nor could this claim be attributed to the Singapore government.
When WSJ first made enquiries to the Embassy, MHA initially declined to comment further.
Following the confirmation of the affair, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun refuted the claims in a press briefing on Monday.
“These reports are groundless speculations, and a smear against China,” said Mr Guo.
Photos of affair between CEO and tech exec circulate
In 2024, a photo of a technology industry party in Taipei was first posted on LinkedIn, in which Alice Huang appeared to be sitting beside Jensen Huang.
Source: NetThunder via LinkedIn
On 22 May 2025, Mr Huang hosted a dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Taiwan during tech expo Computex. The two were in attendance together.
AFP reported that Mr Huang was seen putting his arm around Ms Huang, with her kissing him on the right cheek.
She was seen following the CEO as he reentered the restaurant, running her fingers down his lower back.
They were later spotted leaving the restaurant in the same car.
Stocks plummet, speculations of second mistress emerge
Since Jensen Huang’s public admission of infidelity, Nvidia’s stocks have suffered, closing at US$178.67 on 9 Nov, a low last recorded since 7 April.
Reports have also emerged of Huang’s alleged second affair with a Nvidia subordinate.
According to the New York Times who cited five Nvidia employees, Huang had a relationship with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare.
While the company’s board is looking to remove Huang from its leadership, there have been no official reports regarding his divorce with Lori Mills Huang.
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Lori Mills Huang has been married to Jensen Huang since 1985. They met while studying electrical engineering at Oregon State University and went on to work in Silicon Valley as microchip designers after graduating.
The two have established a charitable foundation focusing on STEM education and donated to tech facilities at various universities.
Under Californian community property laws, which dictate equal division of marital property, Ms Mills Huang could be owed US$80 billion from the divorce proceedings.
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Featured image adapted from Bryan Wan via X (left) and NVIDIA via LinkedIn (right).