Nvidia to probe reports that Chinese intelligence targeted CEO Jensen Huang

One of the world's most valuable companies and a key player in the U.S.'s race for AI dominance over China. Now, NVIDIA, the semiconductor company, is launching an independent probe into CEO and co-founder Jensen Wang. He's admitted to an extramarital affair with a woman U.S. officials say was feeding information to Chinese intelligence. The investigation comes after a New York Times report last month named the woman as Alice Wang, a former executive of Singapore-based company MegaSpeed. It's one of Nvidia's biggest customers in Southeast Asia and under scrutiny for steering AI chips to China. The company's board released a statement saying, While the board has no reason to believe that either National Security or Nvidia secrets were compromised, the board's inquiry will examine all available information. Jensen fully supports the review and has committed to cooperating with it. Despite such assurances, the incident has raised alarm bells among lawmakers in Washington. Not only are NVIDIA's top-tier chips banned from export to China, but Jensen Wang himself is close to U.S. President Donald Trump. The New York Times piece alleges that Trump was briefed on the relationship around a year ago, but did not take action. When asked if he'd wish he'd acted, the U.S. President had this to say. I don't think so. I think he's an honorable guy. I think he probably has an excuse for it. You have to hear it. No, you can't do that with people. Well he was... He's done an amazing job for our country. It's unclear if Trump will address the issue when he's expected to meet again with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in China this month, while Jensen Wang himself has already been called to brief Congress about the report in November.