Jensen Huang: Why a personal scandal for the face of the AI boom has provoked a national security scare

Jensen Huang, the iconic 63-year-old co-founder and CEO of AI chip titan Nvidia, has long occupied the upper echelons of global tech stardom. Lauded by industry insiders as a visionary on par with Apple’s Steve Jobs, he earned playful monikers ranging from the \”Taylor Swift of tech\” to \”Daddy Huang\” in his native Taiwan, and has steered Nvidia to a $4.5 trillion valuation, briefly claiming the title of the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. A key ally to U.S. President Donald Trump, Huang stood shoulder to shoulder with Elon Musk at a recent White House AI summit, as the administration framed global AI dominance as a zero-sum game between the U.S. and China, with Trump repeatedly asserting that \”whoever wins AI wins\” the 21st century.