Earlier this week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. Now, The New York Times reports that he allegedly also had an extramarital relationship with someone who works for him at his company. You don’t need an LLM to sense a pattern emerging here.
The second affair was allegedly with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care, who is 15 years his junior. The two were allegedly caught on camera “being affectionate” during an Nvidia conference last March.
“I don’t think you should be talking to me directly,” Huang reportedly told The New York Times when it reached him for comment.
The fallout from the Nvidia founder’s first affair has already done hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to the company’s stock price, which has ballooned into the trillions in recent years thanks to the AI boom. It was tanking again in after-hours trading following the fresh allegations of a second affair.
Nvidia’s board of directors has already opened an investigation into Huang’s conduct with Alice Huang, the alleged Chinese spy, and some Republican members of Congress have called on the CEO to appear in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill. A memo was reportedly circulated to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about concerns over the relationship as far back as May.
The New York Times reports that Huang’s affectionate interaction with Powell at the March Nvidia conference was recorded by a bystander. The person was allegedly made an offer to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
Some have already called on Huang to resign. The Wall Street Journal reports that Nvidia’s board is already considering moving forward with that outcome. The jokes will continue until he does.
