Jensen Huang repeatedly told Nvidia’s most senior executives that his dealings with Alice Huang were ordinary business, according to a Reuters report published on Saturday. Citing two people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence, Reuters said Huang misled general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld about the relationship before it became public.
The agency also released photos it had verified of the pair together in Taipei in June 2024, adding to images that place them at events since December 2023. Nvidia and a representative for Huang declined to comment, Teter did not respond, and Wagonfeld did not immediately respond.
The report lands two days after Huang resigned as president and chief executive, with chief financial officer Colette Kress taking over on an interim basis, according to Nvidia’s announcement. Alice Huang is a former senior executive of Megaspeed International, a Singapore-based Nvidia customer whose dealings in restricted chips are under scrutiny, and Singapore has since barred her from re-entering the country. Despite the shared surname, the two are not related. Huang acknowledged an affair in a statement on 8 November, apologising to his wife, their children and the company without naming her.
Huang called his Alice Huang dealings ‘standard business’ in messages to Nvidia’s leaders
According to Reuters, the questions first reached Nvidia’s leadership through the press. Queries in autumn 2025 and again in October 2026 about Huang’s dealings with Megaspeed and Alice Huang drew the attention of senior executives. On both occasions, Huang described the interactions as appropriate. In two separate messages in October, which Reuters reviewed, he said they reflected “standard business dealings with customers”.
Reuters did not review the 2025 messages, and it did not publish the October exchanges in full. Its sources said that in other messages, Huang also affirmed that his interactions with Megaspeed were routine. The agency did not say whether any executive questioned his account at the time, or when Teter and Wagonfeld learned the true nature of the relationship.
The New York Times’s October 2025 article on the pair’s public meetings drew a sharper response. Huang discussed taking legal action against the paper with Nvidia leaders, according to Reuters’ sources, although neither he nor the company filed a lawsuit. A Times spokesperson told Reuters the paper had received no legal demand. At that stage, Reuters reported, Huang did not describe the relationship as an affair.
Verified photos place Huang and Alice Huang together from December 2023
Reuters said it could not establish when the relationship became intimate. Photos it verified online show the two together in the United States, China and elsewhere from December 2023. One image, confirmed by a Reuters source, was taken in Taipei and released on 7 June 2024, the week of the Computex trade show, where Huang gave the opening keynote. According to The Standard in Hong Kong, the Taipei set shows Alice Huang beside him as he greeted supporters after the keynote, with the pair later posing arm in arm.
Those images follow an earlier set that the Financial Times reported on 9 November. They had been posted on a WeChat account belonging to Alice Huang, who also goes by Huang Le. The images showed the pair at dinners and events in Shanghai, California and Hong Kong, and the account has since been disabled. TalkEsport has not republished any of the photos.
The national security question behind the scandal is still open. US authorities investigated whether Alice Huang was spying for China, and Beijing denies that she is a spy. Reuters said it had not independently verified whether she worked for the Chinese government. Huang told Bloomberg in an interview on 29 October that the US government had not told him about any suspicions. Nvidia’s board has said it has “no reason to believe” national security or the company’s secrets were compromised.
Nvidia’s investigators now have Huang’s own messages to weigh
Nvidia’s independent directors hired Wachtell Lipton and former federal prosecutor Joon Kim on 10 November, according to the board’s own statement. The board has not said what the review covers beyond Huang’s conduct. Reuters’ account adds a specific question for it, because a chief executive’s assurances to the general counsel shape how a company answers the press and regulators.
Reuters’ report is the latest in a run of disclosures since Huang left. The New York Times has reported a relationship with an Nvidia employee, and Reuters reported a separate one with a different employee, as TalkEsport covered in its report on the third relationship. The New York Post has described outbursts at senior executives, including Jay Puri, while two large shareholders have asked the board to keep his return on the table.
Investors have already priced in much of the damage. Nvidia’s shares have fallen more than 30% from their closing high on 6 October, erasing more than $1.8 trillion in market value, according to Reuters. Nvidia reports its third-quarter results on 17 November, the first since Huang’s resignation, and it filed his exit with US regulators in an 8-K.
