Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tries to act ‘business as usual’ in office return after ‘China spy’ affair bombshell: report

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Just a day after revealing his affair in an email to colleagues, Huang walked into Nvidia’s headquarters and led his regular morning meeting, according to a report.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is trying to act “business as usual” as he returns to the chipmaker’s California offices after dropping a bombshell that he had an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, according to a report.

Just a day after revealing his affair in an email to colleagues, Huang, 63, walked into Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters on Monday and led his regular morning meeting with the firm’s top executives, CNBC reported.

He kicked off the closed-door meeting by addressing his marital infidelity and again apologizing to staffers, but he didn’t take any questions and quickly pivoted to the day’s agenda, people familiar with the meeting told the outlet.

Huang reportedly again showed up at the office and led meetings on Tuesday, just one week out from the semiconductor giant’s quarterly earnings report.

People inside the leading AI chipmaker said Huang tried to project an attitude of “business as usual,” even after the company’s board launched an investigation into his affair with Alice Huang, no relation, an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed and a suspected Communist spy.

Insiders told CNBC that the mood inside Nvidia is “sad” because longtime employees had viewed Huang as an infallible idol and are struggling to come to terms with his actions.

Nvidia said Tuesday that it has hired Joon Kim, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz who previously investigated sexual harassment allegations against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to investigate Huang’s affair.

Huang is already facing a call to resign from North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer, a senior GOP member of the Senate Banking Committee, who warned that Huang’s actions pose a clear national security risk.

“The potential for extortion is so tremendous that something as sensitive as Nvidia chips, I just think he’s got to go,” Cramer told Politico late Tuesday.

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