Jensen Huang Misled Nvidia's General Counsel About Alice Huang Ties, Sources Say

Alice Huang, a former top executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed International, has been under US investigation over whether she spied for China. Beijing denies she is a spy, and Reuters said it had not independently verified whether she worked on behalf of the Chinese government. The two share a surname but are not related.

The account goes to the central question now facing Nvidia's board and its shareholders: what the company's most senior officers were told about the relationship, and when. Nvidia's independent directors hired the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz on November 10 to investigate, and a shareholder lawsuit filed against Nvidia and Huang alleges that investors were misled.

The October messages were sent separately to Teter and Wagonfeld. They were not the first time Huang played down the relationship inside the company. In autumn 2025, after press inquiries drew leaders' attention to his links with Megaspeed and Alice Huang, he described the interactions as appropriate and did not say they amounted to an affair, Reuters reported. The news agency said it had reviewed only the October 2026 exchanges, not the messages from 2025.

An October 2025 article in The New York Times had drawn attention to the pair's public meetings. Huang discussed taking legal action against the newspaper, but neither he nor Nvidia sued, and a Times spokesperson said the paper received no legal demand. As recently as October 29, Huang said in a Bloomberg interview that the US government had not told him of its suspicions about Alice Huang.

Reuters said it had verified photographs showing the two together in the United States, China and elsewhere going back to December 2023. When the relationship became intimate is not clear.

Huang resigned on Thursday, November 12. In a statement he apologised for "being unfaithful to his wife and for disappointing the company," without naming Alice Huang. The New York Times has reported that he also had an extramarital relationship with an Nvidia employee, and Reuters has reported a further intimate relationship with a different employee.

Teter did not respond to a request for comment and Wagonfeld did not immediately respond. A representative for Huang and an Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment. Calls and emails to Alice Huang's listed contact went unanswered.

The general counsel's own contacts with Washington are also drawing attention. Bloomberg has reported that Teter called Jeffrey Kessler, the Commerce Department under secretary who runs export controls, in late summer 2025 to ask whether his agency was involved in Alice Huang's detention in Singapore. Nvidia says Teter did not know about the affair at the time.

Nvidia's shares have fallen more than 30% from their October 6 closing high, wiping out more than $1.8 trillion of market value. The company reports quarterly results on Tuesday under interim chief executive Colette Kress, and Senate Banking Committee chair Tim Scott has asked Huang to testify on December 3.