Nvidia board weighs CEO Huang's future amid FBI probe

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Nvidia's board is holding urgent talks Wednesday about CEO Jensen Huang's future following revelations of an affair with a top executive and a related FBI investigation, causing shares to drop over 8% in after-hours trading. Huang had a romantic relationship with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia's vice-president of healthcare and an 18-year company veteran, according to two sources. This follows Huang's Sunday admission of an affair with Alice Huang, an executive at an Nvidia customer whom US intelligence believes was recruited by China's spy agency. The board has launched an investigation led by a former federal prosecutor, though it backed Huang on Sunday. Trump said the FBI is examining the matter, and senior Republicans and Democrats have called for congressional inquiries into the CEO's role in AI policy.


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