Reuters: former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled the company's top lawyer about his relationship with Alice Huang

Reuters reported exclusively on November 14 that former Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang misled several of the company's leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature of his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang. The agency cited two people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence from October, which it reviewed on condition of not quoting the messages verbatim.

What Huang told colleagues

In the autumn of 2025 and again in October 2026, press queries drew some Nvidia leaders' attention to Huang's ties to Megaspeed International and Alice Huang, a former top executive there. On both occasions he described the interactions as appropriate, the people said. Reuters reviewed only the October messages, not the 2025 exchanges.

In two separate October messages, Huang told Nvidia leaders, including Teter and Wagonfeld, that the interactions reflected standard business dealings with customers. In other messages, he affirmed that his dealings with Megaspeed were routine, Reuters said.

Huang also discussed taking legal action against The New York Times after it published an October 2025 article that drew attention to his public meetings with Alice Huang, the people said. Neither Nvidia nor Huang filed a lawsuit. A Times spokesperson said the paper received no legal demand.

It is unclear when the relationship became intimate. Photos posted online and verified by Reuters show the two together in the United States, China and elsewhere as far back as December 2023. Jensen Huang and Alice Huang share a last name but are not related.

The company's response

Huang apologized to staff on November 8 for being unfaithful to his wife and resigned as chief executive on November 12. On November 10, the board's independent members said they had hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to conduct an independent investigation.

Alice Huang is a former executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed. U.S. authorities have been investigating whether she was spying for China, an allegation Beijing has denied and that Reuters said it had not independently verified. A representative for Huang and an Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment. Teter did not respond, and Wagonfeld did not immediately respond.

Sources: Reuters