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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an extramarital affair in a statement published on Nvidia's newsroom . A strange move for the $4.5 trillion company without the added context: the person he's suspected of having an affair with has also been deemed a Chinese intelligence asset by US officials, and was investigated for smuggling none other than Nvidia's own chips.

The story goes far deeper than Huang's affair; revolving around national security, export controls, spying, chip smuggling, and US/China relations. It's in large part about AI, and who controls the hardware that makes it possible.…