New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- The global tech world is still reeling from the shock after one of the highest-profile executives admitted to infidelity. Jensen Huang, the co-founder and billionaire CEO of chip-maker Nvidia, in a letter to the company's employees, admitted that he had an extramarital affair with a Chinese-origin business executive based in Singapore.

The woman in question is Alice Huang, also known by her Chinese name Huang Le, whom the US intelligence agencies believe was an asset recruited by China's Ministry of State Security (MSS). According to The New York Times, Alice Huang was recruited to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang as part of a drive by Beijing's top spy agency to learn more about American AI chips and potentially...