Nvidia CEO admits affair outside marriage; company opens probe over suspected espionage

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Jensen Huang, Nvidia's founder and CEO, apologized to the company's employees for an affair he had outside his marriage. In a letter he published, he wrote: "I betrayed my wife, there is no excuse for what I did". According to him, he disappointed his family and harmed the life they built together.

Nvidia's board opened an independent investigation over suspicions that the mistress was recruited by the Chinese intelligence agency. Huang promised to cooperate with the investigation and stressed: "I am completely committed to Nvidia". The company's shares are losing ground in overnight trading.

President Trump said that the Nvidia CEO claimed he did not know that the woman he was in a relationship with was a spy. In Huang's words as relayed by Trump: "I did not know she was a spy".