Jensen Huang is mired in revelations that he carried on at least two affairs, and the fallout is described as ending in his departure. One involved a woman U.S. intelligence determined is a Chinese spy, and another involved Kimberly Powell, one of his direct reports at Nvidia.
Mr. Witt, the author of The Thinking Machine, says U.S. intelligence captured evidence of Huang in a romantic relationship with Alice Huang. He also writes that a former Nvidia employee said the affair with Powell was common knowledge inside the company. The picture that emerges is not of a hidden private life but of a public executive culture built on silence.
Mr. Witt on Huang
Witt first met Huang in 2023, long before the opinion piece that laid out the personal conduct behind the departure. He also says Huang tipped a waitress $1,000 in $100 bills at Denny's, a detail that fits the image of a man who could project confidence and access in the same gesture.
That same portrait carries a darker edge. The article casts him as someone who presented himself as humble while behaving with reckless overconfidence, and it ties that contradiction to a broader corporate pattern at Nvidia. The silence around the affairs was not incidental; it made the rumors hard to break inside a company where both of Huang's children work in executive roles.
Alice Huang And Singapore
Alice Huang managed a Singapore-based company that owns data centers in Southeast Asia, and those centers are suspected of helping Chinese A.I. developers circumvent U.S. restrictions on sales of Nvidia equipment. A recent report in The Information suggests the data centers were used as a way station to illicitly smuggle some $7 billion of equipment into China.
That sequence links the personal revelations to a wider business problem. If the company around her was handling infrastructure that could help move restricted equipment into China, the stakes inside Nvidia were not just reputational. They reached into the company’s equipment pipeline, its internal discipline, and the way senior people handled risk while the culture of omertà kept others quiet.
For Nvidia employees, the practical result is a company story that now sits on two tracks at once: a chief executive departure tied to at least two affairs, and a corporate environment in which silence protected the story until it could not. That leaves Huang’s exit framed by the same questions that surrounded the business side of the report — how much was known, who knew it, and how far the fallout reaches through the company he led.
