Is Jensen Huang’s job on the line? Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld estimates it’s “about a 50-50”

Nvidia’s board announced Sunday that it’s launching an independent investigation after CEO Jensen Huang told staff he was unfaithful to his wife. But this isn’t a case of just another CEO having an extramarital affair. The romantic interest is Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whom U.S. officials believe is a Chinese spy who was feeding information back to Beijing. In short, the stakes reach well beyond Nvidia, given how many tech and financial partners depend on its place at the center of the booming AI economy. “I’m responsible for an entire industry,” Huang recently told Bloomberg in a sit-down. A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington dismissed the allegations in late October as “groundless smears and slanders,” and no one has been charged. But U.S….

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