The revelation of the CEO’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy is not just shaking up the chipmaker but the entire AI world, says Shuli Ren for Bloomberg Opinion.
FILE PHOTO: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during a doorstep after attending the AI Ecosystem Reception in Tokyo, Japan, July 16, 2026. REUTERS/Manami Yamada/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during a doorstep after attending the AI Ecosystem Reception in Tokyo, Japan, July 16, 2026. REUTERS/Manami Yamada/File Photo
HONG KONG: When a high-profile chief executive is in trouble, investors worry about key-person risk and whether the company will continue to prosper. But what if that businessman is crucial to an entire narrative that has underpinned the global markets boom?
Nvidia said on Sunday (Nov 8) that it was opening an investigation into Jensen Huang, after the CEO acknowledged that he had a romantic relationship with a business executive whom US intelligence determined was a Chinese spy.
The path forward – and Huang’s future – will depend on what emerges from the board’s fact-finding process. But the revelation itself is shaking up the entire artificial intelligence world.
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