How Nvidia's Veterans Day video inadvertently sealed Jensen Huang's fate

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A seemingly wholesome social media post from Nvidia on Veterans Day inadvertently showed why keeping embattled Jensen Huang as chief executive was almost impossible. On Wednesday,…

A seemingly wholesome social media post from Nvidia on Veterans Day inadvertently showed why keeping embattled Jensen Huang as chief executive was almost impossible.

On Wednesday, as the US observed Veterans Day, Nvidia employees gathered and watched Marines methodically unfold and raise the US flag at the company's California headquarters.

"This Veterans Day, we honour all who have served, including veterans across our Nvidia community," read the caption accompanying the video on several of the company's social media platforms. "Thank you for your service."

During any other time in Nvidia's history, and if just about any other company had posted something similar, the reaction would have mostly been positive.

But its now former chief executive Jensen Huang's admission to infidelity with an accused Chinese spy, and reports that he also had an affair with a former Nvidia executive, opened the company's Veterans Day to criticism.

"Ironically, the Marines motto is 'Semper Fidelis', which means 'Always Faithful'. You can't script this," wrote one of about 160 people who commented on the post.

About the same time as Nvidia's Veterans Day video was posted on Wednesday, The New York Times reported people close to the company claiming that Mr Huang had another affair, with a former Nvidia executive.

"What about Kimberly Powell?" read another comment on Nvidia's Veterans Day video post.

Top executives have survived such media coverage in the past, but the problem for Nvidia and Mr Huang proved to be the national security concerns related to AI.

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