Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO on November 12, 2026, and apologized for being unfaithful to his wife and disappointing the company, without naming Alice Huang.

A Reuters report said Huang had an affair with Alice Huang, a former senior executive at Nvidia customer Megaspeed International; Reuters-verified photos show them together in several countries as far back as December 2023, though it remains unclear when their relationship became intimate.

The report said an October 2025 New York Times article about Huang’s public meetings with Alice Huang prompted him to discuss their relationship with Nvidia leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, describing their interactions as standard business dealings rather than calling it an affair.

US authorities investigated suspicions that Alice Huang may have spied for China, but Reuters said it could not independently verify whether she worked for the Chinese government, and Beijing denied the allegations.

In a Bloomberg interview published on October 29, Huang said the US government had not informed him of its concerns about Alice Huang.

Huang discussed suing the New York Times, but neither he nor Nvidia filed a lawsuit, and the newspaper said it received no legal demand.

On November 10, Nvidia’s independent board members hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to investigate reports about Huang’s relationships and suspicions involving Alice Huang.

Meanwhile, Nvidia shares had fallen more than 30% from their October 6 closing high, wiping more than $1.8 trillion from the company’s market capitalization.

The Reuters report drew on interviews with two people familiar with the matter and internal messages from October 2026 that it reviewed; it did not review messages from a similar exchange in 2025.