After the leather-jacketed CEO, president, and co-founder of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, acknowledged an affair with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, his company initially announced an investigation. However, The New York Times reported on Wednesday that there was evidence of another affair, this time with an Nvidia executive who reported directly to him.
Recent reporting noted that since last year, US intelligence reports had identified Alice Huang (no relation) as not only the exec for an AI compute company renting access to Nvidia GPUs, but also a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security. The second report focused on Huang and Nvidia vice president of healthcare Kimberly Powell, claiming that a bystander who recorded the two being “affectionate” at the hotel hosting Nvidia’s GTC developer conference in May was met by Huang’s security workers and asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
In recent years, Nvidia has become a key part of the Trump administration’s AI push, a central figure in negotiations over potential Chinese access to cutting-edge AI hardware, and a company that has used its now $4 trillion-plus market cap to finance other AI companies, including the “neoclouds” like Coreweave who have been some of its biggest customers.
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The Jensen Huang scandal is hardly over
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns amid spy, affair scandals
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The future of AI hinges on… Jensen Huang’s sex life?
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Nvidia announced this morning that Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO following reports of two affairs, including one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with a direct report. The situation surrounding Huang has unfolded quickly, with The New York Times only reporting on Friday that Huang and the suspected spy were “close” before other dominoes started to fall, leading to a swift fall from grace for one of the biggest names in technology. (Hours after Huang’s resignation was announced, Reuters reported that he also had an “intimate relationship” with another Nvidia employee.)
Prominent voices in technology have come out in support of Huang, with some calling the resignation a “waste” and a sad day for “all humanity.” The narrative among those leaders on X, at least, is that Huang’s resignation was rushed — perhaps an overreaction to salacious news stories about his personal life. Some others have had a more neutral reaction, commenting more on Huang’s achievements at the company’s helm. You can see a collection of those responses below.
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Reuters: Jensen Huang had an “intimate relationship” with another Nvidia employee too.
If you’re keeping track, that brings the number of alleged extramarital affairs by Nvidia’s now-former CEO to three, including suspected spy / Megaspeed executive Alive Huang, Nvidia’s vice president of health care Kimberly Powell, and an as-yet unnamed woman who two Reuters sources report also works for Nvidia.
Nvidia’s stock closed the day down 4.3 percent.
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Jensen Huang will still need to answer to Congress despite his resignation, Schumer says.
The Senate Minority Leader says both Nvidia and the Trump administration need to explain the national security risks they’re aware of following Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
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Today’s Vergecast: Jensen Huang resigns, and our HomeView review.
Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia, so today’s episode starts with an emergency podcast within a podcast, as David and Nilay try to make sense of the state of Nvidia and AI. Then, Jen Tuohy comes on the show to tell us all about her time with the Apple HomeView, Apple’s new smart home controller and family computer. It’s very good at one of those things, and not so much on the other.
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I was certain, until the story of Jensen Huang’s second affair hit, that Huang was bulletproof. After all, why wouldn’t he be? He’s placed himself indispensably at the center of the AI industry and famously had no succession plan at Nvidia. In fact, he’s the only CEO Nvidia has ever had. L’état c’est moi.
Then two stories were published nearly back to back on Wednesday: one alleging Huang had an affair with his subordinate Kimberly Powell, another that the board was meeting to consider his ouster. First thing Thursday morning, Nvidia announced Huang had resigned. One of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley was out.
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Today, we’re talking about the Jensen Huang scandal at Nvidia, which is developing so quickly that we had to do an emergency update of this intro minutes before publishing this episode.
Huang just resigned from his position as CEO of Nvidia as news of his affairs, including with an alleged Chinese spy, threatened to engulf the company.
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Donald Trump says Tim Cook should replace Jensen Huang.
Now that Nvidia’s CEO has resigned, the president posted on Truth Social calling for the former CEO of Apple to take over the company, for some reason.
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Jensen Huang resigned as CEO of Nvidia this morning, a company he co-founded in 1993. The decision came following the company’s board opening an investigation into multiple extramarital affairs Huang had with a direct report and an alleged Chinese spy. The new, and first, Chair of the Board, Harvey Jones, shared news of Huang’s resignation with the company in an email, which also announced CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO.
You can read the full text of the board’s internal memo and Kress’s first message to employees as interim CEO below.
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Nvidia’s board announced that Jensen Huang — its longtime co-founder, president, and CEO — has resigned after reports of two extramarital affairs, one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with an Nvidia executive who reported to Huang. Following a late Wednesday night meeting, the board accepted Huang’s letter of resignation as CEO, president, and board member, effective immediately, with current CFO Colette Kress appointed interim CEO. Kress has been with Nvidia since 2013, with previous stops at Cisco and Microsoft.
Nvidia is also changing its corporate structure in Huang’s absence, appointing former Synopsys CEO Harvey C. Jones as the first board chair in its history. The statement does not include a statement from Huang, while Kress is quoted as saying:
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Even Jensen Huang’s jackets aren’t safe from adulteration.
Aside from his extramarital affairs, the Nvidia CEO also went viral this week over online images that show him wearing a vintage Saint Laurent jacket by Hedi Slimane — a studded switch up from his usual leather outerwear. Vanity Fair confirmed these are AI fakes that carry SynthID markers however, manipulated from photographs taken in June.
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Here’s one of the viral AI edits…
Image taken from @hidden.ny on Instagram
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AOC chimes in on the Nvidia CEO scandal.
Before a New York Times report claimed there’s evidence of a second affair by Jensen Huang and reports surfaced that Nvidia’s board could meet today to determine his fate, US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke to TMZ last night, focusing on asking why our economy depends on “five guys in tuxedos” being able to keep it in their pants.
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If Jensen Huang is done at Nvidia, who will be the next CEO? Johny Srouji?
According to Semafor, the list includes Apple hardware chief Johny Srouji, who was reportedly “seriously considering” leaving the company last year before deciding to stay, with some board members favoring Nvidia CFO Colette Kress instead.
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Nvidia’s board is preparing to dismiss CEO Jensen Huang following a report from The New York Times about a second alleged extramarital affair, just days after he admitted to a separate affair with a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy, The Wall Street Journal reports. The second alleged affair was with an executive who reports to him, Nvidia’s vice president of health care, Kimberly Powell, according to the Times.
The Nvidia board will meet as soon as Wednesday night to decide on Huang’s future at the company, according to the Journal. Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Verge.
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When I asked who else Jensen Huang was fucking, I did not expect to get answers so quickly.
“When reached by phone Wednesday and asked about his relationship with Ms. Powell, Mr. Huang said, ‘I don’t think you should be talking to me directly.‘ He then hung up.” Great stuff, sir. This is the funniest way for the bubble to pop. Do stick around for the NDA anecdote in the kicker — sure seems like his security guards just have a stack of paperwork at the ready for his bullshit!
Update: The WSJ reports Nvidia’s board is “preparing to oust” its CEO.
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Jensen Huang’s affair reportedly has Taiwan and US cabinet officials rattled.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about failing to put the alleged Chinese spy-run company on a list of national security concerns, Axios reports, though the Commerce Department denied the interaction. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reports that Huang’s birthplace of Taiwan has been unnerved by his affair, where some view it as a national security threat, and it could play into upcoming local elections.
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Nvidia hires the same law firm that investigated the Clippers to look into Jensen Huang’s spy.
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As espionage targets go, Jensen Huang is perhaps one of the least surprising on Earth. The Nvidia CEO runs one of the world’s most valuable companies, controls the in-demand technology fueling the AI boom, and is cozy with presidents, CEOs, and all manner of important people. He also wears a cool leather jacket.
Which makes Huang’s admission that he had an affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy — reportedly while her spying was known to US intelligence and even President Donald Trump — all the more shocking. The fallout goes well beyond his marriage, his reputation, or Nvidia itself. Experts tell The Verge the incident threatens to disrupt the entire US AI industry, potentially jeopardize national security, and could undermine America’s efforts to maintain its fragile technological lead over China in AI.
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It’s difficult to overstate Nvidia’s power in today’s AI landscape. The company’s chips are the bedrock upon which advanced AI technology in the US is being built, and demand has consistently outpaced supply for years. Nvidia has also been an influential investor in a wide range of up-and-coming AI companies in recent years, with about $99 billion worth of equity investments in frontier AI labs, neoclouds, infrastructure companies, and more. Its chief executive has even become close with President Donald Trump.
This is why, as both cofounder and longtime CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang would be a valuable target for a foreign adversary with sights on the American AI industry.
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President Trump held a White House press briefing earlier today and responded to several questions about his knowledge of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Huang said this weekend that he had been “unfaithful” to his wife, and the company has opened an investigation into Huang.
Recent articles from The New York Times indicated that Trump had been aware of a relationship between Huang and Alice Huang, the suspected spy, before information about it became public. In October, The New York Times reported that Trump had been briefed “roughly a year ago” on intelligence that Huang and the alleged spy, Alice Huang, had developed a close relationship, but he didn’t do anything with the information. Yesterday, the NYT reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio helped draft a memo to Trump officials about the relationship before Trump visited China in May.
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On Sunday, Nvidia announced it was launching an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang, an AI executive and agent of the Chinese government.
In addition to the Board of Directors announcing the investigation, Huang sent a memo to Nvidia employees acknowledging the affair. You can read the full text below.
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Nvidia has announced that it is opening an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang and his relationship with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, who was reportedly recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to spy on the company.
The New York Times reported last month that Huang had developed a “close relationship” with the Megaspeed executive, which he later admitted was romantic in nature in a memo to the company. US officials believe she was feeding information directly back to Beijing.
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China’s intelligence agency recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to spy on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) enlisted her to glean information about American AI chips and “potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China.” Megaspeed is a customer of Nvidia’s, and Alice Huang also has “relationships with executives at the highest levels of the A.I. chip industry,” including leaders at Gigabyte, the NYT says.
Last week, the NYT reported that Jensen Huang was seen as the target of a “Chinese spy plot” and shared details about Alice Huang and Jensen Huang’s relationship, but the information that China’s MSS had recruited her is new.
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Well, here’s Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, signing a woman’s chest in a crowded booth at Computex. In the video below, you can see he asks whether this is a good idea before he eventually signs the woman’s top. He then returns to signing more traditional fare.
This isn’t an unusual sight when it comes to actors or musicians. But can you imagine Tim Cook doing that after an iPhone event? Or Sundar Pichai after Google I/O?
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