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‘A dark day’: Jensen Huang’s sex drive threatens to pop the AI bubble, and the industry isn’t sure what’s next

Jensen’s a remarkable person, and it’s sad to see such a remarkable person in this horrible situation—self-inflicted, but horrible.” “I am extremely sad today as I see Nvidia without Jensen Huang,” one Nvidia employee posted.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 12, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC
Key points
  • Martin Casado, an investor at the prominent firm a16z called today a “dark, dark day,” and a “horrible decision for the U.S.
  • America’s position at the top of the AI industry hangs in the balance, and stricter regulation may be more likely, especially given the Democratic Party’s sweeping midterms wins.
  • It’s a really sad day!” posted Clement Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, the open source repository Nvidia acquired for nearly $13 billion in September.

It turns out, one man might just be able to single-handedly pop the AI bubble by not keeping it in his pants, with not one but three affairs—at least that we know about so far.

Jensen Huang’s abrupt resignation as Nvidia CEO may be the biggest story in AI we’ve seen since the launch of ChatGPT almost exactly four years ago.

Additional details
  • and the western world.” “It’s very sad by every dimension,” Penny Herscher, a longtime executive in the semiconductor industry, told me today.
  • Huang has disappointed just about everybody in his orbit, from shareholders to customers, to people who held him up as a role model.
  • It’s a visceral betrayal for Huang’s family, his wife of 41 years, Lori, and their two children, both of whom work at Nvidia.
  • As Jeremy Kahn wrote in Tuesday’s edition of Eye on AI, Huang had been a leading voice opposing both U.S.

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