Smart People React to Jensen Huang's OusterNEWS | 13 November 2026Nvidia is without its founder for the first time in more than 30 years.
On Thursday, Nvidia's board announced CEO Jensen Huang's abrupt resignation, ending the tenure of a leader who had overseen the chipmaker's rise to become one of the world's most valuable companies.
Huang's ouster came after days of reports about his personal life. First, The New York Times reported that the Nvidia leader had a close relationship with someone US officials suspect to be a Chinese intelligence asset.
On Sunday, Huang acknowledged having an affair, and Nvidia's board launched an investigation into whether Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. The Times had reported that the Nvidia founder had grown close to Alice Huang, who US officials believed had been recruited to gather information for the Chinese government.
Then on Wednesday, the Times reported that Huang had another affair with Kimberly Powell, an Nvidia executive who reported to him.
By Thursday morning, one of the world's richest men and a face of the AI boom was out of a job.Author: Thibault Spirlet. Brent D. Griffiths. Katherine Li. Kelsey Vlamis. Shubhangi Goel. Source
