America’s AI secrets are leaking — and not just because of the Nvidia spy scandal

TORONTO — When a company is building technology that could totally transform the world — technology so high-stakes and secretive that it may underpin the future of geopolitics — you might expect its leaders to have a handle on the basics of security. Basics like, say, not having an extramarital affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Basics like not selling the tech to someone who may help smuggle it to a top foreign adversary. Instead America got Jensen Huang, the CEO of AI chipmaker Nvidia, who resigned Thursday after admitting that he’d had just such an affair. The woman in question, Alice Huang, worked for a company called Megaspeed, which was buying billions of dollars’ worth of chips from Nvidia. Megaspeed is under investigation for allegedly smuggling chips into China. The spy scandal raises serious questions about security in the AI corporate world.

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