Jensen Huang Was Reportedly Introduced to Suspected Chinese Spy Mistress by Her Husband

NEW: Jensen Huang was reportedly introduced to his suspected Chinese spy mistress by her own husband, a businessman Huang had known for a decade who joked his wife was Huang's 'personal assistant,' per The Wall Street Journal. $NVDA

The suspected spy's husband is the one who introduced her to Jensen Huang.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Kang Wei, a Chinese businessman Huang had known for a decade, first brought his wife Alice into Huang's orbit. People who know the couple say Kang seemed fine with the affair, talked openly about how close the two were, and liked to joke that his wife was Jensen's personal assistant. US officials now believe Alice was recruited as a Chinese spy precisely because of that closeness, which makes the joke read very differently.

Huang is already gone. He resigned after an emergency board meeting Wednesday night, and CFO Colette Kress is running Nvidia as interim chief while all of this keeps unspooling.

So the sequence is a ten year friendship, an introduction, an affair, and intelligence officials asking whether any step of it was an accident.

This is Kateryna Kovalenko, reporting for HIT.