Nvidia investigates CEO's affair with suspected Chinese spy
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Nvidia investigates CEO's affair with suspected Chinese spy

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 9, 202627 min
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The US tech giant Nvidia has opened an independent investigation following reports its chief executive, Jensen Huang, had a relationship with a woman suspected of spying for China. Mr Huang apologized to his wife and his children for being unfaithful. The chip maker said it had no reason to believe its secrets or US national security were compromised. Also: an anti-terrorism investigation is launched in Poland after a mass shooting in the city of Krakow left six people dead. In Egypt two trains have crashed south of the capital, Cairo, killing seven people and injuring more than 100. South Africa’s...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. World Service. Listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Jensen Huang had an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. An anti-terrorism investigation is launched in Poland after a mass

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shooting which left at least six people dead. And a train crash in Egypt kills at least seven people and injures more than 100. Also in this podcast, South Africa's governing party, the ANC,

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records its worst result in local elections since the end of a end of a Part 8 and... I mean, it's surreal. Grant and I each got an arm and lifted him up and he was in total shock.

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