"There is no excuse for what I did," Nvidia CEO says, as affair with an alleged Chinese spy makes the US-China AI race look even more ridiculous

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Ostensible graphics card company and definite AI giants Nvidia have commissioned an independent investigation into themselves, amid reports that CEO Jensen Huang had an extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese spy.

Per both the New York Times and Nvidia themselves, Nvidia offered to go under the microscope after US intelligence organisations elected to investigate Huang’s paramour, Chinese national Alice Huang (no, uh, relation, and also known as Huang Le), on suspicion of sharing sensitive information with Beijing. The Nvidia-running, leather-jacketed Huang has thus far only copped to an unspecified affair, admitting in an extraordinary public statement that he was "unfaithful to my wife." Still, the two investigations are likely to start a bizarre new leg in the alread-messy AI arms race that the US and China have been indulging in for years.

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