By Jim Edwards
Publication Date: 2026-11-11 10:59:00
On Monday, Jensen Huang walked into Nvidia’s HQ in Santa Clara, California, apologized to his staff, and then ran his meetings as CEO as if it were business as usual. He did the same thing on Tuesday, according to CNBC.
It’s an extraordinary state of affairs given that in the last 24 hours we learned that President Trump was warned Huang was dating a suspected Chinese spy before Huang boarded Air Force One in Alaska on a trade trip to China, and that Trump allowed him aboard anyway, according to the NYT. Trump initially defended Huang’s reputation this week.
More photos of Huang and his affair partner, Megaspeed executive Alice Huang (no relation), have emerged from Chinese social media and are now being collated by Western legacy media. The pair first met as early as the 2010s, according to The Information.
Huang has his supporters: At Web Summit in Lisbon this week—where vicious rains from Storm Charles canceled the second day of meetings for 70,000 tech founders, investors, policymakers, and media folk—the mood was that Huang will somehow survive, Fortune’s Ellie Pringle told me.
There are only two words on everyone’s lips: Jensen Huang. Pringle says:
- “It’s perhaps a feature of the guest list that many attendees want to believe the best of the Nvidia CEO, the darling of the AI world. ‘Perhaps he did it for love,’ mused one. Others said it doesn’t detract from the exceptional company he’s built.”
- “Or perhaps, underlying it all, Nvidia’s lack of…
