No, Jensen has admitted in a memo to employees he had an affair.

Oh no, an affair! We are all puritans now who go to church every Sunday and stone adulterers. What planet are you living on?

The affair itself is not the problem. The problem is if his wife doesn't like it, that secret is worth billions of dollars to keep. What would Jensen do to keep it secret?

Well, when the NY Times floated the first blackmail attempt, he obviously didn't play ball, so I guess we already know the answer?

unless he's absolutely open with his partner and other people in his life, doesn't care or even wants them to know, this provides leverage that can influence his actions. It's almost like you're the one pretending to be out of touch to make a your point...

Yeah, 50 years ago this was a big deal; nowadays... meh. There are tons of people who have survived this and even worse. The public has become inured to infidelity, but so have the media and the various industry gatekeepers (it’s not bad enough to get someone blacklisted or made persona non grata). Except Epstein... those involved with him probably won’t recover. So there are lines that cannot be crossed, but cheating is not one of them. Hell, even beloved Patrick Stewart cheated on both of his first two wives, admitted it in his memoir, and no one cared.

Maybe I’m old but it doesn’t seem that long ago that Clinton got impeached for infidelity.

He got impeached over Perjury and Obstruction of Justice. For the coverup (a crime), not "the crime" (not a crime).

> Clinton got impeached for infidelity.

This is just blatantly false.

He wasn't impeached for infidelity, he was impeached for lying under oath and obstruction of justice[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton

This is completely false and there are numerous public examples to pull from. If anything, it is worse now than it was in the past with how the mob can dogpile.

Case and point, caught at a coldplay? cheating? Both fired? Lives destroyed?

As for the actor, really? Totally dif industries and people do care. Execs make a company look bad and when actors do too, cheating or not, they also get smacked.

You may not care but most people do and if a tiny spark hits Patrick, his legacy will be destroyed. There are many actors that the public is well aware of how gross they are and are hated for it regardless of ability.

Patrick cheated twice and it amounted to a footnote in his obituary. no one cared.

> Except Epstein... those involved with him probably won’t recover.

What? Nobody involved with Epstein has gone to prison yet. One of them was even re-elected president. If I had to list the terrible things you could do when you're rich and not face consequences, trafficking and raping children would sadly be high up on the list.

reputational harm. You think Larry Summer's career will recover?

Cheating per se is not a problem other than showing a concerning lack of judgement. A strong desire to keep an affair secret is more dangerous.

Also imagine an intelligence agency is designing cover for someone to seduce YOU.

It is not just having an affair with some random person and using poor judgement. It is a person what was crafted with you as a target. The whole thing is weaponized.

I have never cheated in a relationship and it is not something I would ever consider. It is easy to say this though knowing I am not going to be the target of an intelligence agency honey pot.

I wouldn't expect his wife to excuse the infidelity just because the mistress was intentionally trying to seduce him. As an Nvidia investor, I don't excuse him for lying about it and opening himself up to blackmail even though I can understand how it came about.

> A strong desire to keep an affair secret is more dangerous.

I'm no expert on having affairs, but isn't secrecy key to the whole thing? At least secrecy from the spouse.

If you have no strong desire for secrecy, then is it even an affair at that point? Either the spouse tacitly supports the extramarital fornication, or the relationship is already in tatters.

I am not a puritan, so that's not the angle of concern for me at all.

I believe the actual larger concern here is "in case Jensen didn't want this to become public (whether it was due to the divorce potential or whatever other reason; that's not relevant), what lengths would he be willing to go to keep it under wraps?".

If it gets confirmed that Jensen simply had an affair (without a "shared/did things he wasn't supposed to share/do" component), then it is a nothingburger (for anyone except him and his family). But until we have that confirmed, the US government is concerned about what critical info he might have shared/done to avoid being blackmailed by an agent acting on behalf of PRC.

Bedding an adversarial entity's agent in a regulated field is a serious matter (for the company) with potentially serious consequences. It can lead to executive decapitation, it can even lead to / criminal investigations if the operative bypassed export controls using executive proximity.. the fallout can be great and widespread. It can also be a nothingburger and an amusing page six divorce story in the end where we all read how rich cry as well. Time will tell. What's telling of where this might lead and how serious it is, is that it was US federal government that warned about this.

This could be seen as lack of integrity, which is a problem

He lied about it to Bloomberg as a representative of Nvidia, so it goes beyond his personal life.

> should not be assumed that Jensen nor Nvidia took part in anything untoward at all

The punishment for the cover-up often exceeds that for the crime.

We don’t have evidence around whether Huang is compromised with China. We do have compelling evidence that he tried to minimize fall-out, or potentially even sweep under the rug the problem, after finding out the true identity of this woman. If he did it with Trump, that’s corruption in service of a national-security compromise.

Isn't everyone having an affair part of a cover-up? I wouldn't consider it an affair if it was known and out in the open, affair implies keeping it secret in my opinion at least.

> Isn't everyone having an affair part of a cover-up?

You're right. The problem is how he involved Nvidia in covering up for him.

Huang had an affair with a customer. He then had spokespeople say "the company that employed Ms. Huang, Megaspeed, was like any other regional customer" [1]. Just this Friday he had Nvidia lie for him: "Mr. Huang’s interactions with Ms. Huang were 'not unusual' and consistent with the kinds of meetings he has with any of Nvidia’s many customers" [2]. If that were the whole story this would be a massive breach of fiduciary duty.

Then we learn Ms. Huang was a Chinese spy. While Jensen was advocating for looser restrictions on selling AI chips to China. While Jensen was selling chips to Megaspeed that were being publicly investigated for re-shipping to China.

And he decides to come clean about this after control of the Congress flips in a way that guarantees his secrets will come out.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/politics/chinese-spy-a...

Well I'm certainly not saying what he may have done okay, my point was simply that I'd see all affairs as involving cover-ups.

With regards to whether others in the company helped hide it, though, that's on them. Your boss can tell you to do something, you still have to agree and then actually choose to do it.

Affairs are normally secret, a cover-up implies others find out and are induced or choose to collude to keep it secret.

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Wow, this is big news. I feel this should be its own submission.

Regrettably this share link is not letting me read the article.

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> China targets everyone of consequence, of course they targeted Jensen.

Yes, but they aren't investing him because he was "targetted" in the abstract. They're investigating him because the operation was extremely successful.

Dude was literally fucking a spy. As it were.

Successful at what?

Alleged spy.