Jensen Huang Drops Out As Speaker At ElevenLabs Event Day After Admitting To Affair With Alleged Chinese Spy

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is no longer speaking at the ElevenLabs Summit in New York this week, the voice AI startup has confirmed, as the fallout from his admission of an affair continues to disrupt his public schedule.

Huang had been listed as the first speaker on the lineup for the summit, which takes place on November 11. According to Business Insider, he was due to take part in a fireside chat with ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski. His name and photo have since disappeared from the speaker page, and the slot is now billed as a closing keynote from Staniszewski alone. The lineup on the website now begins with the CEOs of ElevenLabs and Ramp. Nvidia is an investor in ElevenLabs.

11/11 is a big day at @ElevenLabs.

This 11/11, I'll be on stage at our New York Summit with an incredible lineup of speakers, sharing what we’re building at @ElevenCreative and our most exciting work with customers.

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ElevenLabs confirmed the withdrawal to ABC News on Monday. Huang has also reportedly pulled out of an Anthropic CEO forum in Montecito, California, where he was to be interviewed.

The cancellations come a day after Huang admitted to being unfaithful to his wife in a memo to Nvidia employees, apologising to his family and the company. The admission followed an October 29 New York Times report that U.S. officials had concluded that Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive with no relation to Jensen, was a Chinese intelligence asset who had developed a close relationship with him. Nvidia’s board has since opened an independent probe into reports that he was the target of a foreign intelligence effort.

The allegations against Alice Huang remain unproven. Nvidia has said Huang’s interactions with her were not unusual for a CEO who meets customers regularly, the Chinese embassy has rejected the claims, and Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs has said it conducted no investigation into her alleged ties to China.

Huang’s family has also been pulled into the story. His eldest daughter, Madison Huang, a senior director at Nvidia, abruptly cancelled a planned trip to South Korea to attend Nvidia AI Day Seoul 2026, which was held at the COEX centre on November 9 and 10. According to Bloomberg, she cited a “family matter”. Bloomberg also reported that a senior Korean government official pulled out of the event and that Nvidia executives fended off uncomfortable questions from journalists. The event went ahead without her. Madison is one of two of Jensen and Lori Huang’s children who work at Nvidia.

The turn of events is a major one for the AI industry, given how often Huang appears on stage alongside the sector’s biggest names, and how much of Nvidia’s strategy rests on his personal involvement. The company has not yet said whether he will make other scheduled appearances in the coming weeks.