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Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-nvidia-ceo-huang-had-relationship-with-second-employee-sources-say-2026-11-12/
29•jbredeche•33m ago

Comments

filipdobro•29m ago
This seems like a coordinated hit, slowly releasing more and more information. What's really going on?
minimaxir•24m ago
The better metaphor is "where there's smoke, there's fire."

Three different news orgs have reported the different affairs.

austin-cheney•16m ago
Yes, one investigation begets others. Also, high profile witnesses come forward voluntarily once the screen is lifted on any unrelated investigation, but not typically before.
Betelbuddy•19m ago
Dont mess up with the intelligence community. He should have talked more to Jack Ma.
rvz•10m ago
That's because it is. This is the worst case of a classic blackmail operation against Jensen and it is highly co-ordinated with major news outlets like the NYT, WSJ, The Economist and FT.

Someone powerful or a group of people did not want open weight AI models and Nvidia GPUs being accessible or sold in China and either:

1) Wanted him (Jensen) to stop selling GPUs in China and had his affairs recorded and used as dirt against him as selling GPUs into China also threatened the AI labs.

2) Insiders (and spies) used the affairs against Jensen to knowingly smuggle Nvidia GPUs into China from Singapore (despite the export issue) with too many of them that knew, and that leaked to the wrong person.

Not even China wants Nvidia GPUs and urges chinese AI companies to use homegrown Huawei GPUs. The chinese AI labs still choose Nvidia GPUs over Huawei anyway.

breakwaterlabs•8m ago
> What's really going on?

A lesson, apparently, for everyone asking "what the big deal is".

If ever you wanted to understand the meaning of the word "liability", here it is.

"Coordinated hits", as you put it, have as their prerequisite the creation of a "liability".

dofm•6m ago
Journalism plus circumstances loosening tongues and reducing the downside of being truthful.

As the British police are fond of saying in cold case appeals: allegiances change.

iAMkenough•5m ago
As it turns out, Huang was a fallible human being.
nashashmi•5m ago
[delayed]
minimaxir•28m ago
One affair is a scandal.

Two affairs is a pattern.

Three affairs is just funny.

Betelbuddy•16m ago
One relationship per GPU core.
nashashmi•3m ago
[delayed]
rvz•24m ago
There are three "I"s in NVIDIA (latin)
debrisontrack•21m ago
I don't who the 3rd affair will be with, but the 4th one will be with sticks and stones
mkrishnan•14m ago
:)
Betelbuddy•21m ago
That is it...I am buying a leather jacket!
mkrishnan•13m ago
Buy a brown one
anotherengineer•18m ago
stop it!! he's already dead!!

in all seriousness though, what is going on? everything here feels well timed and coordinated. were the powers that be just waiting for US midterms to pass? is there any relationship to the anthropic IPO? my tin foil hat is going to be working overtime these next few days

vizzier•13m ago
Plenty of benign explanations without needing tinfoil

- The affair(s) were so badly hidden that they became obvious once one was exposed

- High profile CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world means a lot of eyes

- something akin to the Streisand effect keeps things in the news cycle

ribosometronome•8m ago
Yeah, hundreds of reporters suddenly being interested in the story after the initial news broke shines a lot more lights on things.
peter422•7m ago
The initial story about the spy dropped on October 29th, before the midterms.

At that point it was probably just a matter of time until the rest came out.

xianshou•8m ago
If you find two ants in the kitchen, there are more than two ants in the kitchen.
bayarearefugee•4m ago
> If you find two ants in the kitchen, there are more than two ants in the kitchen.

And Jensen Huang may have had an improper relationship with at least one of them.

haunter•3m ago
Amateur. Tiger Woods had at least 9 extramarital affairs.

Jensen Huang resigns

https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-megaspeed-china-singapore-huang-5403f152a601cf82ce939f1d24fffa0f
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