Lead: United States lawmakers have reportedly summoned Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang over unverified claims of an alleged affair involving a suspected Chinese spy, amid growing concerns over national security and the AI industry.
However, Huang, an architect of the artificial intelligence boom, announced his resignation from the company on Thursday, November 12, 2026, amid the ongoing scandals.
Reacting to the development in a post shared on X, Republican Senator Tim Scott said, “Recent reports raise serious concerns about our national security and the protection of sensitive US technology.”
Scott said he was requesting Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify in December before the Senate Banking Committee, which he chairs.
It joins a call for a closed-door interview with the leather-jacketed, 63-year-old Huang on December 1 by three House of Representatives committees, on threat of subpoena.
Huang, who has been married to his wife Lori for over 40 years, admitted Sunday to an affair, reportedly with Alice Huang, a former senior executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed. The two are not related.
US intelligence reportedly circulated a memo this spring alleging she was an asset of China’s Ministry of State Security. Beijing has rejected the allegations.
On Wednesday, The New York Times reported a second affair, citing video of Huang being affectionate with Nvidia’s vice president of health care, Kimberly Powell.
While Nvidia’s board searches for a permanent successor to Huang, who spent 33 years at the helm of the firm he co-founded, chief Financial Officer Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO.
Nvidia hit gold when the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2022 sparked a global rush to develop AI, with its processors, once designed for video game graphics, becoming a crucial ingredient to train and run the technology.
