Alice Huang's husband, Kang Wei, appeared to accept her affair with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang; had introduced the two

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Alice Huang's husband, Kang Wei, had reportedly known Jensen Huang for a decade and before he introduced the Nvidia CEO to his future romantic interest.

Alice Huang's husband, Kang Wei, introduced her to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Kang, a Chinese businessman, had known Huang for about a decade.

The news of how Huang and Alice met comes at a time when the embattled CEO might be ousted from the company after allegations about Alice being a Chinese spy have been raised. Beijing has denied these allegations. Meanwhile, a fresh New York Times report has claimed that Huang also had an affair with a company executive, Kimberly Powell, who reported directly to him.

Kang and Alice have moved from one lucrative opportunity to the next, over the past decade, the WSJ report noted. This includes videogame companies, pharmaceutical takeovers and cloud computing. Nvidia's AI chips were reportedly the latest play for the duo who had a track record for riding hot trades and sometimes being on the wrong side of regulators.

Huang has now admitted to his affair and apologized for violating the trust of his family and staff. Megaspeed, the Singapore-based cloud-service provider, where Alice was an executive, has come under scrutiny from both the US and Singapore.

It has been alleged that the company potentially transshipped billions of dollars in Nvidia AI chips to China. These chips were sent despite US laws barring their export, as per the report.

Taiwan authorities have said that Alice's entry permit is revoked, and she's been barred from entering the island where she met Huang several times. Officials there reportedly said they are probing if Alice's visits involved intelligence gathering and were in violation of their anti-infiltration act. Alice was detained by Singapore authorities in 2025 summer, and she was not allowed to leave the country.

However, this ban on her exit was later lifted and Alice was in China earlier this year, the WSJ report noted.

Kang, meanwhile, was detained in Shanghai earlier in 2026 over inquiries about stock-market manipulation which involved companies which were listed.

He is in his early 50s and had been a…

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