Jensen Huang Reportedly Had Third Affair; Nvidia Exit Caps Week of Scandal

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Reuters says Jensen Huang had a relationship with a second Nvidia employee, the third woman linked to the ousted Nvidia CEO.

Reuters did not name the woman or describe her role at Nvidia, and said its attempts to reach her were unsuccessful. Nvidia declined to comment. Jensen Huang and a representative for the company's board did not respond to the news agency's requests. Newsweek has reached out to Nvidia for comment.

The disclosure lands on a figure who, until days ago, seemed less a chief executive than the artificial intelligence economy’s indispensable man. On Thursday morning, Nvidia announced that Jensen Huang had resigned as president, CEO and director, effective immediately. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress will serve as interim CEO while keeping her finance role, and longtime director Harvey C. Jones becomes the board's first-ever chair. The board said it would consider internal and external candidates for the permanent post.

Congress, meanwhile, is closing in. In a letter Thursday, the Republican chairs of the House Foreign Affairs, China and Intelligence committees gave Jensen Huang until 8 p.m. EST Friday to agree to a closed-door, transcribed interview on December 1, or face a subpoena.

Senator Tim Scott, the South Carolina Republican who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, separately invited him to a public hearing on December 3.

On Sunday, Jensen Huang sent employees a letter confessing he had been unfaithful to his wife. "Leading Nvidia is the privilege of my life," he wrote. "I have fallen short of that responsibility." He did not say with whom. The New York Times had already reported that U.S. intelligence officials suspected Alice Huang—a Chinese citizen, former television reporter and onetime executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, one of Nvidia's largest customers in Southeast Asia—was gathering information for Beijing and had grown close to him. The two are not related.

That same day, Nvidia's board opened an independent investigation into reports that Jensen Huang had been "the target of a foreign intelligence effort," and declared its "confidence in Jensen and…

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