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Nvidia's Jensen Huang had an affair with another woman apart from Chinese spy

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is facing fresh scrutiny after one report alleged a second extramarital relationship involving a senior company executive. Another report said Polymarket traders pushed his odds of stepping down to 88%, and that Nvidia’s board held a closed-door meeting on his successor.

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A report said Jensen Huang had a relationship with Kimberly Powell, who runs Nvidia’s health care business, and that both are married to other people.
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The same report described the relationship allegations as a second set of affair claims involving Huang.
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Traders on Polymarket priced the odds of Huang stepping down at 88%.
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Nvidia’s board held a closed-door meeting to decide on Huang’s successor.

What it means

Jensen Huang is the chief executive of Nvidia, one of the most closely watched companies in artificial intelligence and chips, so any succession chatter around him gets immediate attention. The latest reporting adds a new layer by tying him to Kimberly Powell, who leads Nvidia’s health care business, after earlier affair allegations had already surfaced. Because both people are married, the story is not just about corporate leadership but also about personal conduct at the top of the company.

For Nvidia employees and investors, succession talk is no longer hypothetical if the board is already meeting behind closed doors to discuss a replacement. A chief executive transition at a company of Nvidia’s size would affect who sets strategy and how continuity is handled, even before any formal change is announced. The 88% Polymarket reading shows how quickly a leadership rumor can become a market narrative around a public company.

The wider issue is the overlap between corporate governance, public speculation, and a prediction market that turns an unconfirmed leadership dispute into a tradable probability. Nvidia is central to the AI trade, so questions about Huang’s role reach beyond one executive’s reputation and into how concentrated leadership can be at the biggest technology names. The tension here is between the private nature of board deliberations and the public demand to know whether a high-profile chief executive is vulnerable.

Still unknown is whether Nvidia will actually change leadership, whether the board’s meeting produced any decision, and whether the allegations will be addressed internally or publicly. It is also unclear how far the second relationship allegation reaches inside Nvidia and whether it changes the company’s plans for succession. A formal statement from Nvidia or a direct update on Huang’s status would settle the immediate question.

Market reaction i

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The total crypto market fell 0.3% in the 4 hours after the first headline, after falling 0.8% in the 2 hours before.

$2.5T market cap at the headline
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Where this sits in the Bitcoin series

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1.1 years ago BTC at $115,227 high today it sits -36.2% from there
4 months ago BTC at $58,566 low today it sits +25.5% from there

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