Jensen Huang Was Banging an Nvidia Vice President Too

Ryan Mac, Tripp Mickle, and Georgia Gee, reporting for The New York Times:

Jensen Huang, the leader of Nvidia who is under investigation for an affair with a woman who U.S. intelligence determined is a Chinese spy, also had an extramarital relationship with an executive who reports to him, according to five people who worked at the company.

The relationship, which has not been previously reported, was with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care, said the people, who spoke under the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information. Under Nvidia’s code of conduct, employees are told to “avoid situations where our actions create conflict” including “personal relationships,” and the company states that it “promptly investigates reports of misconduct.” Many corporations have policies against managers having relationships with subordinates.

Mr. Huang, 63, and Ms. Powell, 48, were captured on video being affectionate at a San Jose, Calif., hotel during a Nvidia conference in March, according to two of the people who worked at the company. The New York Times has not seen the video.

Both Mr. Huang and Ms. Powell are married to other people.

If there are other affairs, it seems pretty likely that intelligence agencies know about those too. He wasn’t very secretive about either of the affairs that have come out so far. If there are more, those who know about them in the China-hawk U.S. national security community are going to keep leaking new ones every few days until Huang resigns or the Nvidia board fires him. And at this point I would bet there are more affairs.

When reached by phone Wednesday and asked about his relationship with Ms. Powell, Mr. Huang said, “I don’t think you should be talking to me directly.” He then hung up. [...]

In March, Ms. Powell appeared at GTC, Nvidia’s annual developer conference in San Jose, where she spoke about using A.I. to aid in breakthroughs in health care and biology. Her presentation used cartoon depictions of Mr. Huang.

During the conference, Nvidia executives were at a nearby hotel for meetings. Mr. Huang and Ms. Powell were seen being affectionate at the hotel. One bystander captured the interaction on their phone, three people briefed on the incident said. Mr. Huang’s security workers witnessed the bystander with the phone and sequestered the person, the people said. The workers then asked the person to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

The Times doesn’t say whether the “bystander” signed the agreement, whether they were offered anything in exchange for signing it, or whether they were an Nvidia employee (in which case the offer could have been that they get to keep their job in exchange for signing it). The Times also doesn’t say whether Huang’s security team carries a pad of NDAs with them, like meter maids do with parking tickets.

★ Wednesday, 11 November 2026