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Nvidia’s next CEO: The outside contenders to succeed Jensen Huang

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott has asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and former Nvidia chief Jensen Huang to testify, as House Republicans demand closed-door interviews amid national security concerns.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 16 sources•1 min read•Updated November 13, 2026, 8:49 AM UTC

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🚨 Stunning stat: At these levels, Nvidia will have lost about $1.4 trillion in market capitalization in two weeks, since the initial Times report about linking Jensen Huang and Alice Huang.
The fallout from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with a suspected Chinese spy may complicate US-China trade talks at next week’s APEC summit, where President Donald Trump is slated to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The woman with whom Jensen Huang reportedly had a relationship also owned stakes in companies that provided computing power to Huawei, a key Nvidia competitor.

But Simmons, who has worked in executive recruiting for almost 30 years, thinks Nvidia’s board will seek a technologist as Huang’s permanent successor, potentially from outside the company.

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Chief financial officer, reportedly disparaged by Huang during summer meeting, to take over on short-term basis The hunt is on for a new Nvidia CEO.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has resigned following revelations that he had two extramarital affairs, plunging the chipmaker at the heart of the global AI boom into crisis.
Global technology editor Dan Milmo on the scandal rocking the world of AI: US intelligence believes the lover of Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, is a Chinese spy Nvidia is one of the biggest companies in the world.
2, days before Huang admitted to having an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, on the back of weeks of media coverage digging into Megaspeed, an AI data center company based in Singapore that US government officials allege might be smuggling Nvidia chips into China.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Huang had a relationship with Kimberly Powell, a senior Nvidia executive who reports to him.

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