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Nvidia's leadership crisis after Jensen Huang's ouster

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TechCrunch reports Nvidia's board ousted CEO Jensen Huang after he confessed to an affair with a woman the U.S. government suspects of spying for China. Nvidia is hunting for a new CEO while congressional testimony, its Hugging Face deal and its data center financing commitments remain open questions, according to TechCrunch.

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Thursday November 12, 2026

  1. Nvidia ousts CEO Jensen Huang, and TechCrunch maps the risks for the AI industry

    TechCrunch says the exit leaves Nvidia's $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal, open-model advocacy and up to $500 billion in data center financing without their main champion.

    Our takeThe risk to commerce teams is indirect: Nvidia's chips and financing deals underpin the cloud capacity and model prices you pay, and its pending Hugging Face purchase touches the open models many teams use. More

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