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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is already under investigation after publicly admitting to an affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese spy. Now The New York Times reports he allegedly had another affair with a direct report, Nvidia healthcare VP Kimberly Powell, who is also married. The Times says the allegation comes from five employees inside the company. According to sources, earlier this year during a conference in San Jose, California, Huang and Powell were caught on video being intimate at a hotel. The report notes that, like many companies, Nvidia has policies that discourage managers from getting involved with their subordinates. TechCrunch has reached out to Nvidia for comment. On the investigation front, Nvidia’s board has launched an investigation into the affair Huang publicly admitted to. Separately, two Republican House members said on Wednesday that Congress is preparing to subpoena Huang over the espionage allegations if he doesn’t respond to the invitation to attend a closed-door briefing. Late Wednesday, after the second affair report came out, The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia’s board is preparing to remove the CEO, who co-founded the company in 1993. The original summary doesn’t give more details, so check the original link for the full story.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is facing two affair allegations, a board investigation, and the threat of a congressional subpoena all at once, and the board is reportedly preparing to remove the co-founder. This hits one of the most central suppliers in the AI industry, so it’s worth keeping an eye on.

For AI builders, the takeaway isn’t the personal drama itself. It’s about dependency structure. Nvidia sits underneath a huge amount of AI development, and when a company’s leadership is dealing with a board investigation, a congressional subpoena, and media reports all at once, it’s hard not to think about key-person risk. Most of the reporting so far relies on anonymous sources, the investigation is still ongoing, and Nvidia hasn’t commented publicly, so we shouldn’t jump to conclusions. But one thing is clear: beyond picking the right tech, a vendor’s governance stability is a variable you should build into your design.

This week, take stock of your own projects. List which parts are locked into a single vendor, and write down a fallback plan for the most critical one.

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