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It’s beginning to look a lot like 2017, thanks to ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
The Nvidia co-founder’s career has spontaneously combusted since he admitted last week to an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman who U.S. officials suspect of being an asset or agent of China’s Ministry of State Security, its equivalent of the CIA.
A trio of House committee chairs have demanded Huang appear before Congress to brief them on his ties to Ms. Huang (no relation).
On Monday, The New York Times revealed that he’d also had a second affair with one of his subordinates, leading Nvidia’s board to move towards tossing him out of the company he’d started three decades earlier.
The tech billionaire’s problems have brought about a temporal vibe shift — reviving and exposing Trump administration infighting and leaking at a level not seen since the heady early months of the president’s chaotic first White House term.
To start, the Times scooped that Marco Rubio, Secretary of State cum National Security Adviser, was so sufficiently alarmed at what U.S.
