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BY Peter Saalfield

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Nvidia’s troubles may be just beginning.

Along with stock market losses and massive reputational damage, CEO Jensen Huang’s extramarital affair with an alleged Chinese spy exposes the chipmaking giant to major legal risks.

The most clear-cut claim is for securities fraud, Stanford Law professor Robert Bartlett told TechCrunch , which would rest on whether the company duped investors by providing false or incomplete information about the relationship.

This angle has already led to at least one class action filing, which cites Nvidia spokesperson John Rizzo’s statement in late October claiming Huang’s interactions with alleged spy Alice Huang were “not unusual or unexpected.” It also cites a subsequent comment by Huang himself that Nvidia’s ties to Alice Huang’s employer, Singapore-based Megaspeed, were “normal and not unusual,” and Huang’s May 2025 comment that Nvidia had found “no evidence of diversion” of its…