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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in October 2026. | Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images The first big sex scandal of the AI era has taken down Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s co-founder and longtime CEO. Nvidia’s board of directors announced his resignation on Thursday morning and named CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO. Huang has been making headlines all week after news broke Friday that he had an affair with Alice Huang (no relation), an executive at Singaporean tech firm Megaspeed who the US government alleges was also a Chinese spy. The revelation Wednesday of a second extramarital affair, this time with an Nvidia employee reporting to Huang directly, added to the pressure, and another affair came to light later on Thursday after Huang’s ouster. The scandal has implications far beyond one company: Huang’s central role in the AI race can’t be overstated. It was his vision of an AI future that led him to pivot Nvidia from a small company making video game chips into the dominant player in making the chi
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Lawmakers react as Huang leaves Nvidia
Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Lawmakers react as Huang leaves Nvidia Lawmakers on Capitol Hill reacted Thursday to the news of Jensen Huang resigning as Nvidia CEO, a move that ushers in a new era at one of the world’s most…
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