黄仁勋被曝与高管有染，涉中国间谍指控引国会质询

Jensen Huang is said to have had a relationship with an Nvidia executive who reports to him. Bloomberg's Mike Shepard is with us now in Washington, D.C. the walls are closing in. Mike, how does he survive this now? Uh, this makes it a much tougher case for him to prevail. Uh, the second instance of, uh, indiscretions, uh, perhaps this one in violation of possible company policies regarding relationships between managers and subordinates, really does, uh, add a whole new element to the scandal that has been unfolding, really since October 29th, since New York, when the New York Times first reported of a close relationship with another person.

And this is Alice Huang, a woman who is suspected by U.S. intelligence of being, uh, uh, Chinese spy and perhaps, uh, using her relationship with Jensen Huang to glean information from him about his conversations with President Donald Trump, perhaps, or also about the company's, uh, own trade secrets. Well, and just to remind us of the timeline here, because while we all just learned, uh, of this Allison affair, it happened some time ago.

Right? And this one that The New York Times is reporting on was more recent. Well, that's really the, uh, engagement and interactions between Jensen Huang and Alice Wong really go back a ways and go back to 2024 and 2025. It's it's unclear when their relationship actually became romantic, but they clearly did know each other, uh, going back a few years. But the episode that The New York Times is reporting on now happened in March, uh, at one of the company's, uh, developer conferences.

And it raises questions about whether, you know, there was any sort of warning from his own team, uh, of security and how much internally was known at the company as well, among, uh, senior leadership and as well as the board to their reporting earnings next week was the timing here is pretty wild considering the earnings blackout that comes with these days leading up to the reporting of results. Can this company say anything publicly about this, and will there be an announcement, presumably on the earnings call?

Well, Joe, they're not responding to the times report right now. At least not for the moment. And, uh, and Jensen Huang, he was reached briefly by the times, uh, by the times reporter. But he said, I don't think you should be speaking with me right now and hung up while the executive in question, Kimberly Powell, with whom he had had this relationship. Uh, also, uh, uh, wasn't, uh, available for comment. So it's unclear what the company will be saying, but there are going to be a lot of uncomfortable questions during that earnings call.

And the Nvidia chief is also facing some pressure from Congress to appear and answer questions before a close to a briefing of the House intelligence, uh, and, uh, and Foreign Affairs Committee and also the China Select Committee to talk about this relationship with Alice Huang, the executive from Mega Speed who suspected of acting on China's behalf.