Jensen Huang Resigns as Nvidia CEO After Affairs with Customer and Subordinate

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's chief executive on Thursday after admitting to two extramarital affairs, including one with a customer linked to Chinese intelligence and another with a subordinate, following a year-long concealment that unraveled amid media scrutiny. The first affair involved Alice Huang, a Singapore-based executive whose company Megaspeed bought over $2 billion in Nvidia chips and was suspected of funneling them to China. U.S. intelligence surveilled her as a Chinese spy asset, and Huang denied the relationship until confessing to Nvidia's general counsel last weekend after The Times reported on it. The second affair, with Kimberly Powell, who led Nvidia's health division, emerged days later, prompting the board's emergency meeting and his resignation. The scandal has triggered reviews of U.S. A.I. export regulations and exposed tensions among administration officials over China policy, leaving Nvidia without its iconic leader.