Nvidia NVDA.O shares tumbled on Monday after an internal investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence effort put his future at the AI chipmaker under scrutiny.

The internal probe followed a media report that Huang had a close relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who allegedly passed information to Beijing. Huang told Nvidia's employees that he had been unfaithful to his wife, without disclosing details of the relationship.

The investigation, announced on Sunday, has put a spotlight on Huang's future given Nvidia's status as the world's most valuable chipmaker and the CEO's role as the most prolific salesman of the AI boom.

The leather-jacketed Huang enjoys rock-star status worldwide, particularly in Asia, where he often mingles freely with fans, taking selfies and signing autographs for his devoted followers.

He is Nvidia's fifth-largest shareholder with a roughly 3.6% stake, according to LSEG data, and keeps a tight grip on the company through an unusually flat structure in which dozens of executives report directly to him.

But unlike Meta Platforms META.O or SpaceX SPCX.O, Nvidia has no dual-class shares that would give its co-founder majority voting control.

The fallout of the probe extended to South Korea, where Madison Huang, Huang's daughter and an Nvidia executive, canceled a planned visit to Seoul for an Nvidia conference that was set to begin on Monday, according to companies she had been scheduled to meet.

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1. VARIOUS OF CEO OF NVIDIA, JENSEN HUANG, AND UAE MINISTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DIGITAL ECONOMY, REMOTE WORK APPLICATION, OMAR SULTAN ALOLAMA SPEAKING DURING THE OPENING REMARKS OF WORLD GOVERNMENT SUMMIT (WGS)

AI to better train robots and cars, as well as new gaming chips, dominated Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's keynote speech at the CES 2025 conference on Monday (January 6) as the world's second most valuable firm expounded upon its potential to expand its business.

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2. OPENING VIDEO PLAYING IN ARENA AHEAD OF NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG CES 2025 KEYNOTE

3. HUANG WALKING OUT ON STAGE

4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

"Here it is, our brand new G-Force RTX 50 series Blackwell Architecture. The GPU is just a beast. Ninety-two billion transistors 4,000 tops, four petaflops of AI. Three times higher than the last generation Ada. And we need all of it to generate those pixels that I showed you."

Wherever AI darling Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang goes in Taiwan, his adoring fans and excited reporters follow, hanging on his every word, arms outstretched as they beseech him to sign books, posters and even baseballs.

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5. NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, POSING FOR PHOTOS WITH CEOS FROM OTHER TECH COMPANIES

6. HUANG SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS

7. HUANG POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH SUPPORTERS

Nvidia said on May 19 it plans to sell a technology to others that will tie chips together in order to speed up the chip-to-chip communication needed to build and deploy artificial intelligence tools.

Nvidia launched a new version of its NVLink tech called NVLink Fusion on Monday that it will sell to other chip designers to help build powerful custom AI systems with multiple chips linked together.

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8. VARIOUS OF NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, ON STAGE

9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

"And so today, we are announcing something very special. We are announcing NVIDIA NVLINK Fusion. NVLINK Fusion is so that you can build semi-custom AI infrastructure."

10. VARIOUS OF NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 BLACKWELL SERVER EDITION ON STAGE

Wall Street indexes rose on July 10, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite marking closing record highs, as investors shrugged off President Donald Trump's latest tariff moves, while investors were encouraged by an upbeat forecast from Delta Air Lines.

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11. NASDAQ CLOSING NUMBERS

12. NVIDIA CLOSING NUMBER ON NASDAQ BOARD

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described artificial intelligence models from Chinese firms Deepseek and Alibaba as 'excellent technologies' on July 16 and said China is a very important market with 'dynamic' customers.

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13. NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE

14. HUANG INTERACTING WITH AND SIGNING PERSON’S JACKET

15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

"China is moving incredibly fast because the model layer with DeepSeek and Alibaba Qwen and Moonshot Kimi Kimi, right. All excellent technologies. And in fact, DeepSeek is the world's first open source reasoning model. And it was a breakthrough, no question. A breakthrough."

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang told reporters at his hotel in Taipei on August 22 that his company is waiting for purchase orders from China before producing more H2O chips.

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16. VARIOUS OF NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, WALKING OUT OF HOTEL

17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

"We've prepared a lot of H20 already, but now we are waiting for purchase orders from China customers and so when we receive the orders, we will be able to produce more."

18. HUANG INTERACTING WITH FANS

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on October 28 he trusts U.S. President Donald Trump's plans when dealing with China, where the company has "zero percent market share."

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19. NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, TALKING WITH JOURNALISTS

20. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, ON A MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMP AND XI JINPING:

"I have no expectations of this particular meeting but I have 100% confidence in President Trump's ability to cut a great deal for America. Whatever he decides to do that's in the best interests in America, I'm all in on that."

21. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

"So we've taken China out of our forecast. We are currently shipping zero dollars. Our market share has gone from 95% to zero, which is very, very, very disappointing. But nonetheless, were currently assuming China is going to be 0% of our business. And if it comes back if President Trump was able to negotiate or if China would like us to come back to China, it's going to be a huge bonus for us."

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met the chiefs of Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor during his first official visit in more than a decade to South Korea on October 30, highlighting the company's deepening AI ties with its tech and auto industries.

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22. NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG ARRIVING IN RESTAURANT

23. HUANG ENTERING RESTAURANT

24. FANS AND MEDIA OUTSIDE RESTAURANT

25. HUANG HAVING MEAL WITH SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CHAIRMAN JAY Y. LEE AND HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP EXECUTIVE CHAIR EUISUN CHUNG

26. EXECUTIVES RAISING GLASSES FOR 'LOVE SHOT', A TOAST SYMBOLIZING FRIENDSHIP AND TRUST

27. MEDIA OUTSIDE RESTAURANT

28. VARIOUS OF HUANG COMING OUT OF RESTAURANT, GREETING FANS AND HANDING OUT GIFTS TO FANS

29. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

"I'm very, very, very grateful and very honoured that Nvidia is the first company in history to reach $5 trillion. The facts, the facts are that artificial intelligence is the most impactful technology of our time. It is the most impactful technology of all time. This is very likely going to be the largest technology industry the world's ever known. And so is it possible for Nvidia to be much larger than us today? I think the answer is absolutely so.”

30. HUANG WALKING TO FANS

31. HUANG HANDING OUT GIFTS TO FANS

32. FANS AND MEDIA WAITING FOR HUANG

33. SIGN OF NVIDIA

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung met Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Gyeongju on Friday (October 31), discussing ways to deepen cooperation in artificial intelligence, the presidential office said.

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34. NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG WALKING IN MEETING ROOM AND SHAKING HANDS WITH SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT LEE JAE MYUNG

35. HUANG AND LEE SPEAKING TO EACH OTHER

36. HUANG AND LEE STANDING TO POSE FOR MEDIA

37. VARIOUS OF HUANG AND LEE SHAKING HANDS

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Friday (October 31) he hoped the company's state-of-the-art Blackwell chips can be sold in China, although the decision needed to be made by U.S. President Donald Trump.

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38. NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SPEAKING WITH MEDIA

39. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

"The China market is large and is a vibrant market with a lot of developers and those developers create AI technology that's exported from China all over the world. And so to the extent that American tech stack can run and to operate those AI models, it's good for the United States (and) around the world."

REPORTER: "So would you want the Blackwell to be sold in China?"

HUANG: "I hope so. I hope so. But that's a decision for President Trump to make."

40. HUANG SPEAKING WITH JOURNALISTS

41. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

"Well, NVIDIA had 95 percent of the China market. Today, we have zero percent. At the beginning of the Biden administration, we had 95 percent. And the policies of that administration really caused us to lose practically the entire China market."

42. HUANG ARRIVING AT 2025 ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC) CEO SUMMIT STAGE

43. HUANG SPEAKING

Deutsche Telekom unveiled plans for a German industrial AI cloud on November 4 and said a data centre in Munich will be equipped with 10,000 high-performance processors from Nvidia.

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44. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

“This is one GPU. People think that NVIDIA builds chips. We do. We build chips, and these chips go into what is a GPU supercomputer that we invented and started working on almost 30 years ago. And this is our latest version. This is called Blackwell.”

45. DEUTSCHE TELEKOM CEO TIM HOETTGES AND HUANG ON STAGE

46. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

"There is no question Germany will be one of the largest AI markets in the world. How could it not be? How could it fundamentally not be? And so, today is a first step for us to go and cultivate, activate, and nurture that growth. And so we're very excited about it. I can't wait for us to invest even more.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced on Wednesday (November 19) partnerships with Saudi Arabian artificial intelligence startup Humain at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum.

Musk and Huang both confirmed the development of a 500-megwatt data center in Saudi Arabia.

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47. TESLA CEO ELON MUSK AND NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG ARRIVING ON STAGE

48. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NVIDIA CEO, JENSEN HUANG, SAYING:

"We worked together to get this company started and off the ground, and just got an incredible customer with Elon. Could you imagine a start-up company - approximately zero billion dollars in revenues - now going to build a data center for Elon. 500 megawatts is gigantic. This company is off the charts. Right away."

49. GENERAL VIEW OF EVENT ENDING, MUSK AND HUANG LEAVING