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5 min readJensen Huang Is Out at Nvidia
Jensen Huang, the co-founder and only CEO Nvidia had ever known over 33 years, resigned this morning after an emergency board meeting called when the New York Times reported that he was having an affair with Kimberly Powell, a vice president of healthcare at the company who reported directly to him. The resignation caps a week of cascading revelations: Huang had already been under scrutiny for an affair with Alice Wong, the CEO of Megaspeed, a Singaporean company alleged to be a front for diverting chips to China. "There's no question in my mind that this is the biggest tech news of the year," said host Max Reed, as the panel assembled to process what had just happened to the second most valuable company in the world.
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- 1 Jensen Huang Is Out at Nvidia — Hard Fork
- 2 (00:34) **Jensen Huang Resigns as Nvidia CEO** - The episode opens with the bombshell announcement that Nvidia's co-founder and longtime CEO has stepped down after an emergency board meeting.
- 3 (04:06) **Panel Introduction** - The three reporters who broke the story join to walk through the timeline and implications.
- 4 (04:52) **How the Board Decision Unfolded** - Ryan Mack describes the overnight chain of events that led to Huang's ouster.
- 5 (06:51) **The Trump Administration's Internal Conflict** - Anna Swanson explains how the political winds shifted against Huang.
- 6 (08:41) **Lutnick-Bessent Confrontation Over Megaspeed** - A key Washington drama involving the Singaporean company at the center of the scandal.
- 7 (10:09) **How the Second Affair Story Broke** - Ryan Mack details the reporting on Huang's relationship with Kimberly Powell.
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Show Notes
Jensen Huang is out as chief executive of Nvidia. It’s a stunning fall for one the most powerful figures of the A.I. boom.
To make sense of it all, we’re joined by two of the reporters who’ve been leading the coverage for The New York Times, Ana Swanson and Ryan Mac, alongside Stephen Witt, the author of the Jensen Huang biography “The Thinking Machine.”
We’ll discuss how we got here, the significance of a Jensen-less Nvidia and what happens next.
Guests:
- Ana Swanson, a reporter at The New York Times covering international economics and trade
- Ryan Mac, a technology reporter at The New York Times covering corporate accountability
- Stephen Witt, author of “The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip”
Additional Reading:
- Jensen Huang Resigns From Nvidia
- Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship With Nvidia Executive Who Reports to Him
- Trump Officials Clashed Over Megaspeed, Firm at Heart of Nvidia Affair
Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention
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