{"id":51815,"date":"2026-11-15T02:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T01:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/the-week-jensen-huang-fell-how-a-spy-scandal-toppled-nvidias-ceo\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T02:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T01:34:52","slug":"the-week-jensen-huang-fell-how-a-spy-scandal-toppled-nvidias-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/the-week-jensen-huang-fell-how-a-spy-scandal-toppled-nvidias-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week Jensen Huang Fell: How a Spy Scandal Toppled Nvidia\u2019s CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In brief<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jensen Huang resigned Thursday as Nvidia\u2019s CEO after 33 years, following reports of three extramarital affairs\u2014one involving an executive U.S. intelligence reportedly suspected of China ties.<\/li>\n<li>Nvidia\u2019s stock plunged over 14% before recovering to close down ~4.6%; tech, AI and crypto founders called the ouster a \u201cmassive mistake,\u201d while 1,600-plus employee comments pushed to reinstate him.<\/li>\n<li>The board has reportedly approached Arm CEO Rene Haas as a successor; the turmoil matters for crypto given Nvidia\u2019s grip on AI data-center infrastructure, with earnings due Nov. 17.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the span of a few days, the most powerful executive in artificial intelligence went from untouchable to unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>Jensen Huang, who built Nvidia from a graphics-card maker into the roughly $4 trillion engine of the AI boom, <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/383134\/jensen-huang-resigns-as-nvidia-ceo-with-cfo-colette-kress-named-interim-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned Thursday<\/a> after 33 years, felled not by a bad earnings report but by a scandal with the texture of a spy thriller.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how a defining week for AI, and by extension crypto, unfolded.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The crisis began with reports that Huang had grown close to Alice Huang (no relation), an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, one of Nvidia\u2019s largest Southeast Asian customers,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/383280\/the-week-jensen-huang-fell-how-spy-scandal-toppled-nvidia-ceo\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief Jensen Huang resigned Thursday as Nvidia\u2019s CEO after 33 years, following reports of three extramarital affairs\u2014one involving an executive U.S. intelligence reportedly suspected of China ties. Nvidia\u2019s stock plunged over 14% before recovering to close down ~4.6%; tech, AI and crypto founders called the ouster a \u201cmassive mistake,\u201d while 1,600-plus employee comments pushed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[260,36],"class_list":["post-51815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","tag-business","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}