Don’t take Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s ‘sex’ scandal at face value

South China Morning Post - Nov 14, 2026

“I thought spooks were supposed to be stealthy,” the uncouth, flatulent anti-hero Jackson Lamb complains in the hit British spy series Slow Horses as an annoying underling loudly enters his rundown office building, known to fans as Slough House. I have no idea if Alice Huang, the alleged love interest of billionaire Jensen Huang – who resigned as Nvidia CEO on Thursday – is really a Chinese Mata Hari. My own knowledge of espionage is confined to reading John le Carre and Robert Ludlum, and...

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