Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with businesswoman Alice Huang. US intelligence officials claim she is a spy, without evidence. But she was likely smuggling AI chips. China hawks are exploiting the scandal.

US intelligence agencies claim CEO Jensen Huang of Nvidia, one of the most powerful companies on Earth, had an affair with a Chinese spy. However, there is no proof of this.

In fact, all of the evidence suggests something much less nefarious: that Jensen Huang’s lover Alice Huang (of no relation) is simply a Chinese businesswoman who was helping Nvidia bypass US export restrictions in order to sell AI chips to Chinese companies — against the wishes of both the US and Chinese governments.