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Jensen Huang at GTC Berlin last month. | Photo: Soeren Stache / picture alliance via Getty Images Nvidia's board has ousted Jensen Huang, its longtime co-founder, president, and CEO, after reports of two extramarital affairs - one with an alleged Chinese spy and one with an Nvidia executive who reported to Huang. A press release published Thursday morning announced Huang's resignation, effective immediately, as current CFO Colette Kress has been appointed interim CEO.
Huang has been at the helm of what's now known as the most powerful company in AI since its founding in 1993. In the years since, it's become the main purveyor of the chips fueling AI advancement and deployment in the US, and it has enjoyed near-unbridled power and influen …
