Jensen Huang’s affair flaunted his photos, helped move 240,000 ‘banned’ chips to China
- Newsrooms
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- Last 3 hours
- 5 reports
- Momentum
- Slowing
13 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
1File photo: Jensen Huang
Alice Huang, the suspected Chinese spy Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with, posted photos with him on WeChat and claimed he celebrated her birthday with gifts, The Information reports. A web of firms tied to her allegedly secured $7.5 billion in Nvidia AI chips and moved 240,000 banne
In The Times of India’s words.2
Background: Jensen Huang
Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang is a Taiwanese and American electrical engineer and business executive who is the co-founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia, one of the world's most valuable companies. As of October 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth at over US$200 billion, making him the seventh-wealthiest individual in the world.3
The story so far
94 newsroomsCooling- Reports
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Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (5 in the last three hours, 13 in the three before).
First with it: Financial Times, 2 hr 57 min before anyone else.
Reported by 94 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: Financial Times and Australian Financial Review and Hindustan Times and Bloomberg and The New York Times and CNA and The Straits Times and The Wall Street Journal and Rappler and The Hindu and ABC News and NZ Herald (the same headline); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); 7NEWS, The West Australian, PerthNow (all Seven West Media).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
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| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 6 |
| Sun | 3 |
| Mon | 148 |
| Tue | 230 |
| Today | 107 |
