According to CNBC, Jensen wrote a letter to his employees admitting to the affair. He said, "I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife (and) damaged the life we built together."
Alice Huang, the Chinese businesswoman who had the affair with Jensen, is believed to be a spy for Beijing, reports BBC via The New York Times. For a brief time in 2023, she was a top executive for Megaspeed, a data center firm based in Singapore suspected of diverting Nvidia chips to China.
Robert Maginnis, author of "AI for Mankind's Future," says the damage likely goes far beyond unfaithfulness.
"The new AI Cold War. It's real, it's happening, and it's increasing. Whoever wins the AI at war wins the world," Maginnis states.
This is not the first time that Maginnis has warned about this war at AFN.
The FBI is investigating the affair, and Nvidia is looking into the reports independently. However, the technology company claims national security wasn't compromised and Jensen would continue leading the company.
Jensen's family immigrated from Tawain to the U.S. when he was nine, and he graduated with a master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University. After working at a U.S. chip firm, Jensen became the co-founder of Nvidia and has been dubbed the "Taylor Swift of Tech." He also has a close relationship with President Donald Trump, who told reporters that Jensen has done an "amazing job for our country" after the news of the affair broke.
Maginnis says it's not yet known the extent of the damage that was done, but NVIDIA's chip is the most important advantage the U.S. has in this new cold war.
"The GPUs that Nvidia makes, the Chinese want badly. It could be that what they're after is this technology to help their firms make the same type of GPU," Maginnis states.
The stakes are incalculably high, he says.
"If we're not careful, we're going to fall behind the Chinese. What that means economically, strategically and globally are very, very serious outcomes that we, the United States, do not want to welcome," Maginnis states.
He says the U.S. won the last – and only – cold war it has ever waged, but this one is going to be harder.
"The difference is, fundamentally, we could count warheads, we could count rockets, we should count tracking systems, movement. That's incredibly different than something that's invisible to the naked eye," Maginnis states.
