英伟达董事会调查黄仁勋
据 TechCrunch AI 和钛媒体报道,英伟达董事会已聘请沃奇尔·立普顿律所开展内部调查,由前联邦检察官 Joon H. Kim 牵头。调查源于黄仁勋承认与 Alice Huang 存在婚外情;美国情报机构据称认为 Alice Huang 在为中国从事间谍活动。董事会表示没有理由相信国家安全或英伟达机密遭到泄露,但调查范围和结果尚未确定。
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Nvidia’s stock sank 5.47% on Tuesday, following a 4% drop on Monday, a loss of about 9.5% in two days, even though there wasn’t much news out of the company. CEO Jensen Huang has reportedly been trying to conduct business as usual after admitting to an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence agencies believe was spying for China. The biggest development: the board hired the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to conduct an internal investigation.
What comes next is mostly a guessing game, even for the people who study how boards are supposed to handle crises. Two corporate governance professors, Ann Lipton of the University of Colorado and Todd Henderson of the University of Chicago, say there is no real precedent for a CEO caught up in a suspected honeypot. And while they have views on what the investigation should ask, like everyone else, they’re watching to see how it plays out.
“There have actually been affair cases and sexual harassment cases,” Lipton said, but she was quick to add that she doesn’t know of previous cases that also involve potential national security compromises. Henderson, whose research interests include corporations, securities regulation, and law and economics, said much depends on facts few people have yet, including, most importantly, what, if anything, Alice Huang got out of Jensen Huang. (Secrets about Nvidia’s fabs or chip designs would matter to the Justice Department. Ordinary corporate information probably would not.)
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