The Nvidia "sexpionage" situation could do some damage to the AI boom. But the internet, of course, can't take anything seriously, as the scandal has become a wellspring of jokes and memes this week.
CEO
Jensen Huang acknowledged that he had an extramarital affair with a Singaporean tech executive, Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence officials suspect of spying for China. Nvidia is the world’s largest manufacturer of artificial intelligence chips, and its stock price has tanked since the New York Times broke the news on Oct. 29. Jensen also just stepped down as CEO on Nov. 12. The company's future is murky, and so is Jensen's marriage with Lori Huang.
The juicy drama has become arguably the most fruitful source of online humor right now. Here's how creators have been making fun of it.
Memes comparing them to that Coldplay concert couple
Last year, Andy Byron, the CEO of the data tech company Astronomer, was caught on a kiss cam with his head of HR, Kristin Cabot, at a Coldplay concert. They seemed comically guilty when they were shown on the stadium jumbotron, so much so that frontman Chris Martin can be heard saying, "Either they’re having an affair, or they’re just very shy." The clip went mega-viral, with over 164 million views on the original tweet alone, inspiring countless memes as the ramifications of the scenario unfolded in real time – and both resigned from their jobs.
One TikToker named @wakemorrow used an AI-video tool to show Jensen and Alice on the Coldplay jumbotron, spliced with other images of Nvidia's stock tanking, and news headlines about the event. The video boasts over 1 million views, and it was just posted on Nov. 11.
Memes that use AI
A large swath of the Jensen Huang memes were made with AI tools to show him, Alice and Lori in video templates recognizable to those who are chronically online or well-versed in 21st-century pop culture.
TikToker @otone1121, for instance, used AI to show Jensen and Lori singing in Gotye's iconic "Somebody That I Used to Know" music video from 2011. The emotional tone of the heartbreak ballad is juxtaposed with the unseriousness of the AI-generated look. And Lori's imagined reaction to her husband's cheating is encapsulated in singer Kimbra's original performance.
One comment with over 10,000 likes on the video jokes, "The irony of these videos being made with NVIDIA GPUs."
Similar jokes are occurring over on X. One user named @anothercohen shared a viral AI-generated meme that shows Jensen and Alice as Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes from the hit documentary "You Can See Everything." Alice is shown saying Holmes' infamous line from the film's trailer, "Why would I deceive you?" and the X user jokes in their post's caption, "I used an NVIDIA GPU to make this."
I used an NVIDIA GPU to make this pic.twitter.com/F8Vel59RSI
— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) November 8, 2026
Memes that make fun of Huang's mistakes
The absurdity of the "Chinese spy" element is also not lost on internet users. The whole debacle reads like an espionage plot gone hilariously wrong.
Plus, it's easy to make fun of a multi-billionaire like Jensen. We've seen this instinct to "punch up" at the world's richest in several internet trends this decade, including the Astronomer CEO cheating scandal and, quite morbidly, when several ultra-rich patrons died in the implosion of an OceanGate submersible in 2023.
One X user explained this in so many words – many of them ridiculous words – outlining an imagined conversation between Jensen and a woman he's attracted to, so much so that he's not seeing the red flags.
"Jensen Huang: Hello, beautiful," the viral tweet reads. "Bugs Bunny in drag: Hello, Jensen," it jokes.
Jensen Huang: hello beautiful
— 7/11 Truther (@DaveMcNamee3000) November 9, 2026
Bugs bunny in drag: hello Jensen
One reply to the tweet agreed: "I think Jensen would actually fold immediately, and that's the funniest part."
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: The internet's best jokes about the Jensen Huang and Nvidia mess
