Nvidia hires law firm Wachtell Lipton to lead Jensen Huang affair probe
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1File photo: Jensen Huang
On Sunday, Huang admitted to having an affair with a woman who has been connected to Chinese intelligence by reports in The New York Times and Financial Times.
In CNBC’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 bigger story: Jensen Huang
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The story so far
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Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (10 in the last three hours, 14 in the three before).
First with it: Financial Times, 2 hr 57 min before anyone else.
Reported by 93 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).
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How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
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