Jensen Huang Had a Second Employee Relationship, Reuters Says

Jensen Huang had an "intimate relationship" with a second Nvidia employee, Reuters reported on Thursday, one day after he resigned as CEO of the chipmaker he founded in 1993. Nvidia declined to comment on the report.

The second relationship involves an unnamed Nvidia employee, according to Reuters' sources. It is the third extramarital relationship now tied to Huang in a scandal that has unfolded over the past two weeks.

Here is the timeline, in plain terms.

What started the scandal?

In late October, The New York Times first reported that Huang had a "close relationship" with Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based tech firm. The Times reported that the US government believed she was a spy for the Chinese government. China has said the allegations that she is a spy are unsubstantiated.

That report put Huang — and by extension Nvidia, the world's dominant AI chip supplier — at the center of a national security question, not just a personal one.

What did Huang say?

On Sunday, Huang wrote a memo to Nvidia staff apologizing for being "unfaithful to my wife." He did not name anyone in the memo.

The apology did not stop the story. On Wednesday, The Times reported that Huang had another affair, this time with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia's vice president of healthcare — a direct report to the CEO. A relationship between a chief executive and a direct report raises governance questions that boards typically cannot ignore: who knew, who approved, and what the company's own policies required.

Then came Thursday's Reuters report of a second employee relationship. Nvidia declined to comment.

What does the resignation change?

Huang stepped down as CEO on Thursday, capping a 33-year career at the company he founded in 1993. The resignation ends one of the longest founder tenures in modern technology.

The arc of that tenure is hard to overstate. Huang grew Nvidia from a maker of graphics chips for gamers into the most consequential supplier of AI hardware. Along the way he became one of the world's wealthiest people.

The fall was fast. From the first New York Times report in late October to the resignation on Thursday, the entire arc — the initial report, the staff memo on Sunday, the Kimberly Powell affair on Wednesday, the Reuters report and the resignation on Thursday — played out in roughly two weeks.

Why does the second relationship matter?

The Reuters report raises new questions about how much Nvidia knew about Huang's behavior and how the company navigated the situation. One affair with a direct report is a governance problem. A second relationship with an employee, surfacing after a spying controversy involving a Singapore-based executive, multiplies the scrutiny on Nvidia's board and its internal processes.

Nvidia has declined to comment on the latest report. Huang's Sunday memo remains his only direct statement: an apology for being "unfaithful to my wife," with no names attached.

The company now faces the question every sudden founder exit creates — who runs the most consequential AI hardware supplier in the world — but with the added weight of a national security investigation still hanging over the story's origins. How Nvidia answers questions about what its board knew, and when, will shape the next chapter of this scandal.