Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several of the ‌company’s leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter andCchief Marketing Officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature ​of his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, ⁠according to two people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence reviewed by Reuters.

Reuters reviewed several exchanges from October on condition of not quoting verbatim from the messages. The news agency is the first to report on this correspondence.

On Thursday (November 12, 2026), Mr. Huang resigned as ‌Nvidia CEO, a spectacular fall from the chip industry’s heights where he was a pioneer of technology central to the recent boom in artificial intelligence.

He apologised in a statement ‌for being unfaithful to his wife and for disappointing the company. His statement did not specifically name Alice ‌Huang, ⁠a former top executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed International, whom the U.S. was investigating for potentially ⁠spying for China. Jensen Huang and Alice Huang share a last name but are not related.

The New York Times earlier this week reported Mr. Huang also had an extramarital relationship with an Nvidia employee, and Reuters reported on Thursday that Mr. Huang had another intimate relationship with ​a different Nvidia employee.

Mr. Teter did not respond to ‌a request for comment. Mr. Wagonfeld did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A representative for ex-CEO Huang and an Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment. A phone call and email to contact information listed on a business card for Alice Huang went unanswered.

During the autumn of 2025 and in October 2026, in ‌response to press queries that drew some Nvidia leaders’ attention to his relationship with Megaspeed and Alice ​Huang, Mr. Huang at both times described their interactions as appropriate, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Reuters only reviewed messages from the exchanges in October, not the ⁠ones from 2025.

In two separate messages in October, Mr. Huang told Nvidia leaders that the interactions reflected standard business dealings with customers. In other messages, Mr. Huang affirmed the routine nature of his interactions with Megaspeed.

Nvidia’s Mr. Huang ‌also discussed taking legal action against the New York Times after it published an article in October of last year that drew attention to his meetings in public with Alice Huang, the people said.

That article had prompted Jensen Huang to communicate with some Nvidia leaders in 2025 about their interactions, which he did not describe as an affair, the people said. Ultimately, neither Nvidia nor Mr. Huang filed a lawsuit against the paper. A spokesperson for the New York Times said the paper received no legal demand.

It is unclear when his relationship with Alice Huang ‌became intimate. Photos posted online and verified by Reuters show them together in the U.S., China and elsewhere, dating as far back as ​December 2023.

On November 10, the independent members of Nvidia’s board said they hired Wall Street law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to conduct an independent investigation after the New York Times ⁠and Wall Street Journal reported on Mr. Huang’s relations with Alice Huang, as well as U.S. authorities’ suspicions that she ⁠was spying for China. Beijing has denied she is a spy.

Reuters has not independently verified whether Alice Huang was working on behalf of the Chinese government.

Jensen Huang said in an interview with ‌Bloomberg published on October 29 that the U.S. government had not informed him about its suspicions regarding Alice Huang.

Nvidia’s stock has fallen more than 30% since its October 6 closing high, erasing more than $1.8 trillion ​from its market capitalization.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will testify before Congress on the Nvidia scandal, U.S. media reported on Thursday (November 12 2026).

U.S. lawmakers have called for clarity on what the administration of President Donald Trump knew about Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s extramarital affair with a woman suspected of spying for China.

“Secretary Lutnick has proactively agreed to appear voluntarily before the Banking Committee to address their questions,” Kristen Eichamer, a spokeswoman for Lutnick, told NBC News.

Mr. Huang, a pivotal figure in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom, quit as Nvidia’s chief executive after revelations of two extramarital affairs, including one with suspected spy Alice Huang, who is no relation.

Mr. Lutnick has come under scrutiny as the Commerce Department was mandated to review companies for national security risks before the Trump administration green-lit Nvidia to sell advanced chips to China.

Beijing is in a race for tech dominance against the United States, which restricts the export to China of the most cutting-edge silicon chips.

Nvidia, a global leader in producing chips used to train and run AI models, is one of the world’s most valuable companies.

Senate Banking Committee chairman Tim Scott requested that Mr. Lutnick testify “for a public hearing regarding recent public reports about Nvidia and the Department of Commerce’s role that raises national security concerns”, NBC reported.

Mr. Scott has also requested Jensen Huang testify before the committee, NBC said.