New York Times Reports Nvidia Board Discussed Jensen Huang's Future
The New York Times published an investigation on November 11 reporting, based on five people who formerly worked at Nvidia and spoke anonymously, that Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang had an extramarital relationship with a company executive who reports directly to him, and that Nvidia's board had discussed whether Huang should remain in his role. The Times stated in its report that it has not seen the video recording the report refers to. The claims are unverified allegations, and Huang faces no criminal charge.
According to the Times, the sources said that during Nvidia's GTC conference in San Jose in March, the two were seen behaving intimately at a hotel and were recorded on a bystander's phone; security staff separated the person filming and proposed that they sign a nondisclosure agreement. The Times noted that Nvidia's code of conduct includes provisions on avoiding conflicts of interest arising from personal relationships. Beyond the sources' accounts, the report presented no video or other physical evidence, and GSM has not been able to independently verify those details.
The level of sourcing behind the report should be clear to readers: every central claim rests on five anonymous sources; the newspaper itself has not viewed the alleged phone video; and the executive said to be involved did not respond to the Times' request for comment. Within hours of publication, the report's main points were widely recirculated on social media. Some Chinese-language short videos re-edited the claims over public footage of Huang speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in June 2026, footage that has nothing to do with the alleged hotel scene. The alleged video itself has not surfaced on any public platform.
As for responses, Nvidia declined to provide a statement to the Times about the matter. Reached by phone by a Times reporter, Huang said only, "I don't think you should be talking to me directly," before hanging up, a remark that neither confirms nor denies the allegations. The Wall Street Journal reported separately the same day that Nvidia's board had considered removing Huang; that report also relied on anonymous sources, and Reuters said it could not independently verify it.
Set against the investigation, the developments already on the official record run on a separate track. Over Huang's dealings with Alice Huang, an executive at the Singapore cloud company Megaspeed, Nvidia's board announced an independent investigation on November 8, saying at the time that it retained confidence in Huang, and Huang acknowledged an extramarital affair in a message to employees the same day. On November 10, Nvidia's independent directors announced that Joon H. Kim of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz would lead the investigation. Shareholders have sued Nvidia and Huang in a class action over the company's disclosures, filed on November 9 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, case No. 5:26-cv-13448. Three House committee chairs have asked Huang to attend a closed-door briefing on November 18; when the November 11 reply deadline passed, neither Huang nor Nvidia had responded publicly, and the chairs said subpoenas are possible if he does not agree to appear.
Since GSM began covering this matter, the newsroom has written to Nvidia's media department seeking comment and had received no formal reply as of publication. GSM will continue to follow official developments.
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(Source: The New York Times)
Source: The New York Times
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Photo: 图：英伟达创始人兼首席执行官黄仁勋2017年1月在拉斯维加斯 CES 展会期间出席英伟达活动（资料图）。Maurizio Pesce 摄，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang at an Nvidia event during CES in Las Vegas in January 2017 (file photo). Photo by Maurizio Pesce, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.