This week on “Uncanny Valley,” the team unpacks the Nvidia CEO’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy and what that means for the AI industry.
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AI Audio Startup ElevenLabs Expands Nvidia Collaboration Amid CEO Jensen Huang’s Affair Scandal
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” the team unpacks the Nvidia CEO’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy and what that means for the AI industry.

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Huang co-founded the chipmaker Nvidia, which has become one of the driving forces behind the AI boom. But reports that he may have had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy quickly sank his career.
AI chip giant NVIDIA was expected to fire its CEO as soon as Thursday over two alleged affairs, one of which was with an alleged Chinese spy.
The FBI is investigating as Nvidia’s board holds urgent talks over Huang’s future.
Extramarital affairs are usually private matters. Jensen Huang's has global implications.
A small investment firm issued a report about Nvidia in May that foreshadowed issues that have embroiled CEO Jensen Huang in scandal.
ElevenLabs is keeping its yearslong Nvidia partnership strong, no matter the national-security chaos enveloping the chipmaker’s CEO. The AI audio startup said on Wednesday during its New York Summit it would expand its partnership with Nvidia to power its suite of voice agents, dubbed ElevenAgents, with the tech provider’s Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, its latest […]
I was certain, until the story of Jensen Huang's second affair hit, that Huang was bulletproof. After all, why wouldn't he be? He's placed himself indispensably at the center of the AI industry and famously had no succession plan at Nvidia. In fact, he's the only CEO Nvidia has ever had. L'état c'est moi. Then two stories were published nearly back to back on Wednesday: one alleging Huang had an affair with his subordinate Kimberly Powell, another that the board was meeting to consider his ouste
Jensen Huang, who has come under fire for admitting to an affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese intelligence agent, has been accused of having a separate affair with an Nvidia subordinate.
Huang co-founded the chipmaker Nvidia, which has become one of the driving forces behind the AI boom.
Jensen Huang’s future as Nvidia’s chief executive is in jeopardy as the chipmaking giant’s board weighs removing its billionaire founder amid revelations of two alleged extramarital affairs, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.