Nvidia board reportedly mulls ousting Jensen Huang over affair with his own VP
aakashgupta · x · 2026-11-12
Jensen Huang admitted Sunday to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy and kept running his $4T company. By Wednesday night, his board was reportedly preparing to fire him — over something far more ordinary.
Key points:
- A second NYT story: five former Nvidia employees say Huang was involved with a VP who reports directly to him; two say the pair was caught on video at a San Jose hotel during Nvidia's March developer conference. None confirmed; the Times hasn't seen the video
- Kalshi identified the VP as healthcare lead Kimberly Powell (unverified)
- The irony: on Sunday directors called Huang "the target of a foreign intelligence effort" and expressed confidence — what reportedly rattles the board is a relationship with a direct report, a governance issue, not espionage
- WSJ and NYT report the board is meeting now
Nvidia, Huang and the executive have not commented.
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