Is bad news for Jensen Huang also bad news for the AI industry?
"Jensen is Nvidia, right? And so much of this economy is riding on Nvidia."
NVIDIA's AI chips and ecosystem: new GPUs, CUDA, robotics platforms and the market for AI compute.
"Jensen is Nvidia, right? And so much of this economy is riding on Nvidia."
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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.
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.
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.
Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is taking over as an interim replacement for longtime CEO Jensen Huang, who is embroiled in scandal.
Jensen Huang resigned as CEO, president, and board member of Nvidia effective immediately, according to a statement on November 12, 2026.
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.
Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia following an affair, which could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
As soon as Wednesday evening, Nvidia's board could decide to remove its founder and CEO of 33 years.
The affair could have ramifications for national security as the U.S. and China race to develop the most advanced AI infrastructure.
Anthropic claims it used AI itself to breach Nvidia's CUDA moat. The company's in-house model Mythos reportedly ported Claude to AMD GPUs in just three days, with almost no human intervention. Anthropic now runs Claude on four chip families and aims to cut costs and reduce vendor dependencies.