The latest scandal this week about tech company Nvidia is that its now-former CEO, Jensen Huang allegedly had affairs with multiple women.
On Wednesday night, The New York Times reported Huang had a romantic relationship with an executive who reports to him, Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare. And Thursday, Reuters reported Huang had an “intimate relationship with a second employee” who was not identified in the story. (Nvidia declined to comment to the Times and Reuters.) The news comes days after Huang sent a memo to his staff admitting to having an affair with a woman who U.S. officials have identified as a Chinese spy. On Thursday, Nvidia’s board announced that Huang resigned and that Colette Kress, Nvidia’s chief financial officer, will serve as interim CEO as the board starts a search for a permanent replacement. The tech company has opened an investigation into Huang as its stock market price plummets.
A counterintelligence expert tells Rolling Stone that if the Chinese intelligence agency knew Huang was likely to have extramarital partners while married to his wife of 40 years, Lori Huang, this would have made him a very vulnerable target.
“Infidelity is a known vulnerability,” says Holden Triplett, a former FBI agent specializing in Chinese and Russian counterintelligence. Triplett also served as the director of counterintelligence at the National Security Council for a year during President Donald Trump’s first administration. He’s now a co-founder of Trenchcoat Advisors, a consulting group that advises private businesses on security risk. In his experience, he says, people who have affair partners are “great targets” for intelligence agencies.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/jensen-huang-allegedly-had-multiple-200148022.html
US House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Thursday there was growing consensus in Congress on limiting chip exports to China after a spy scandal forced out Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Huang stepped down after reports of a romantic relationship with a businesswoman whom US authorities suspect of spying for the Chinese government.
Lawmakers from both parties have since called for tougher restrictions on China’s access to advanced AI chips, threatening access to chips that underpin China’s surging AI development. And senior White House officials were discussing whether Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick should be pushed out, two people familiar with the situation said, as the desire to take action rose across Washington.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/speaker-johnson-says-congress-developing-143530401.html
31 year old shortseller saw it all coming — He warned Wall Street about Jensen’s affair, but no one listened.
Chinese (honey pot) spy now in Beijing.
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