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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair as company launches investigation into foreign spy claims

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang has admitted to having an extramarital affair as his company announced it will investigate reports he was the “target of a foreign intelligence effort.”

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Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during a news conference at the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. Nvidia Corp., the company at the center of an explosive build-out of AI computing, expects to generate at least $1 trillion from its Blackwell and Rubin chips through the end of 2027. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump stands with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, after presenting him with the National Medal of Science during the "A New Golden Age" summit at the US Institute of Peace, renamed The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace by the Trump administration, in Washington, DC, US, October 8, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci//File Photo
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