Jensen Huang leaves Nvidia, raising key questions about the future of AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is leaving the company he co-founded 33 years ago after two rounds of exposed extramarital affair scandals, with CFO Colette Kress serving as interim CEO and Harvey Jones as chairman, after the board had already opened an investigation into his conduct and its potential national security implications. According to The New York Times, citing people familiar with the matter, a woman involved with Huang was assessed by US intelligence as having been recruited by China's Ministry of State Security to gather information about him; the woman has business ties to Singapore cloud computing company Megaspeed International, which is under scrutiny for allegedly helping billions of dollars of restricted Nvidia chips flow into China, and multiple US lawmakers have called for an investigation and for Huang to resign. The report described how Huang personally dominated GPU allocation and project financing and how the company had no second-in-command; Nvidia's stock price is heading for a sixth consecutive weekly decline, and the company will report earnings on Tuesday, with analysts expecting revenue to grow 92% year over year to $109.2 billion, according to LSEG data. Nvidia did not respond to multiple requests for comment.