In a letter to employees on Sunday, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang admitted to being unfaithful to his wife, and on the very same day, NVIDIA announced that it had launched an independent investigation into reports that he might have become a target of a "foreign intelligence operation."

The central figure in the dispute is Alice Huang, who has always served as a senior executive for NVIDIA's customer Megaspeed.

In late October, The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials believed that Huang had established close ties with NVIDIA CEO and was passing information to Beijing.

Huang's role in Megaspeed

Megaspeed first came to attention when The New York Times reported last year that U.S. authorities were investigating whether the company and its Malaysian affiliates were helping Chinese enterprises circumvent U.S. export controls to obtain NVIDIA's AI chips.

In May 2025, Taiwanese media captured her leaving a restaurant in Taipei with other executives.

However, apart from these public appearances, little is known about Huang by the outside world. Singapore company documents show that her name is Huang Le.

According to documents of the Singaporean company, Megaspeed International was registered in Singapore in 2015, initially named 7Road International, and its name was changed on March 7, 2023.

A day ago, Huang, a Chinese national, was appointed as a director and executive director of the company, and another Chinese national, Cang Yang, was also appointed as a director. Both individuals resigned from their respective positions on November 10th, and Cang also left his position on the same day.

The New York Times reported that Megaspeed was established after the Chinese online gaming company 7Road split off its Singapore subsidiary.

Before joining Megaspeed, Huang served as the executive director of a Shanghai-based investment fund. The fund invested in 7Road and was associated with state-owned companies, according to The New York Times.

In October, in response to inquiries from The Wall Street Journal, Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs stated that no investigations had been conducted regarding the alleged connections of Huang with Chinese intelligence agencies or her relationship with Jensen Huang. However, the ministry noted that the Singaporean police's investigation into Megaspeed was still ongoing and declined to provide further comments.

The relationship between NVIDIA CEO and Huang

In response to the initial report by The New York Times, NVIDIA described the interactions between Jensen Huang and Huang as routine business dealings.

An NVIDIA spokesperson, John Rizzo, told The New York Times in late October: "The contact between Jensen and Ms and Huang is nothing unusual or surprising. Meeting with customers is part of CEO's job; Jensen talks with tens of thousands of customer executives every year."

On Sunday, Huang told NVIDIA employees that he was unfaithful to his wife. That letter did not name Alice Huang, nor did it directly respond to the relationships mentioned in the reports.

A spokesperson for NVIDIA said to Business Insider on Sunday: "Today's news will not slow down NVIDIA. Jensen will continue to serve as CEO without interruption, leading NVIDIA."