Who is Alice Huang? The woman at the center of Nvidia’s scandal remains elusive

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Who is Alice Huang? The woman at the center of Nvidia’s scandal remains elusive | World News

Her sleeveless pink dress, her sparkly heels, her belted white coat. The wine glass she held, the resort she visited, the bench she sat on.

As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s scandal makes headlines, a breathless public has scrutinized apparent images of the woman at the center of it all for clues to who she is.

The explosive tale of Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang — full of sex, international intrigue and accusations of espionage — has rocked the tech and political worlds. Yet basic questions about her life — and how she grew close to one of the world’s most powerful technology executives — remain unanswered.

Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, drew wide attention last month, when The New York Times reported she had formed a close relationship with Nvidia’s chief and passed information to Beijing. U.S. officials, the Times reported, had concluded Alice Huang was a Chinese spy who had been recruited to influence California-based Nvidia to make its most advanced chips more available in China, a discovery the paper said set off alarms as high as the White House.

Jensen Huang is a poster boy for the AI revolution and one of the world’s wealthiest people, with a personal fortune that Forbes estimates at more than $150 billion. The scandal has cast new light on the Taiwan-born executive, who just months ago insisted in an interview with The Associated Press that he is “deeply boring.” By Sunday, that assertion was upended by his letter to Nvidia's board of directors admitting to being unfaithful to his wife without identifying the woman with whom he’d had an affair.

It remains unclear when the apparent affair started and when it might have ended. The Associated Press was unable to reach Alice Huang for comment.

Alice Huang, once a television reporter in China, became a director at Singapore-based Megaspeed in 2023. The company, which describes itself as a “Nvidia cloud partner,” has faced scrutiny from the U.S. over its alleged skirting of U.S.

Megaspeed, spun off as the overseas…

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