‘Jensen Huang lost his mind’: how AI’s smartest man fell for the world’s oldest trick

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Jensen Huang’s affair with a suspected spy is Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare come trueThe resignation this week of Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang is one of the most…

Jensen Huang’s affair with a suspected spy is Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare come true

The resignation this week of Nvidia’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang is one of the most astonishing corporate scandals in memory, featuring allegations of international espionage and extramarital affairs involving one of the world’s most powerful men. As investigations mount into what went wrong at the $4tn chip company, the saga may also become a milestone in the decades-long history of spies infiltrating the US tech industry.

Huang admitted to being unfaithful to his wife of 41 years in a letter to employees this past weekend, following a report from the New York Times that the tech mogul had a close relationship with a woman US officials suspect of spying for China’s government. Huang resigned on Thursday after 33 years as CEO amid reports of two additional affairs with Nvidia employees, causing the world’s most valuable chip company’s stock to plummet.

The scandal has thrown Nvidia into crisis, cast a pall over the AI boom and even threatened the stability of the US economy. Huang’s downfall is a nightmare scenario for a tech industry that has become increasingly fearful of security threats, and a glimpse into what intelligence experts say is a constant theater of corporate espionage secretly playing out every day throughout the US.

“The reason that this is making the news is because obviously you have one of the wealthiest men in the world and one of the highest-profile CEOs in the world,” said Don Aviv, the CEO of corporate intelligence firm Interfor International. “But this happens all the time, across industries.”

As the AI boom and geopolitical competition with China have ramped up in recent years, the tech industry and security officials have tried to prevent exactly the type of plot that allegedly ensnared Huang.

OpenAI has even held training sessions specifically running through “honeypot” scenarios where a corporate spy or foreign intelligence asset pursues a sexual…

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