Hours After Jensen Huang Quit Nvidia, Reuters Reported a Third Alleged Affair — and Congress Moved In

Sarah Collins | November 13, 2026 | US News

Jensen Huang had barely left the building when the story got bigger.

Nvidia announced on Thursday, November 12, that Huang had resigned as president, chief executive and board member, effective immediately. The board named chief financial officer Colette Kress as interim chief executive while it searches for a permanent successor. Huang, 63, had run the company since he co-founded it in 1993.

Then, hours later, Reuters reported that Huang had an intimate relationship with a second Nvidia employee — a third woman linked to the scandal that ended his 33-year run. Citing two people familiar with the matter, Reuters did not name the employee and said its attempts to reach her were unsuccessful. The report landed at 2:28 p.m. Eastern on Thursday.

The first two relationships had already cost Huang his job. On Sunday, November 8, he admitted in a message to Nvidia employees that he had been unfaithful to his wife, without naming anyone. That followed reports about Alice Huang, a Singapore-based businesswoman and executive at the firm Megaspeed whom United States intelligence officials suspect of working for Chinese intelligence. The New York Times reported on November 11 that Huang also had a relationship with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia's vice president of health care, who reports directly to the chief executive.

None of the espionage claims around Alice Huang has been established. China has denied the allegation. Attorney General Todd Blanche said on November 12 that the Justice Department has not yet reached a conclusion on the matter, and Nvidia's board has said it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised. The third alleged relationship, likewise, rests on two unnamed sources, and Nvidia declined to comment on it.

Congress, meanwhile, is moving fast. Huang has agreed to testify, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast said on Thursday. The session would take place before Thanksgiving, which falls on November 26, behind closed doors, recorded and transcribed. Bloomberg has reported it is likely to be under oath, though the exact date is still being negotiated.

The agreement followed a November 4 letter from three committee chairmen — Mast, John Moolenaar of the House Select Committee on China and Rick Crawford of the House Intelligence Committee — asking for a joint closed-door briefing. Mast had said on November 10 that he was prepared to subpoena Huang if he did not respond by November 11.

In the Senate, Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott has asked both Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify on December 3. In the House, the three chairmen set December 1 and 2 for closed-door interviews with Huang and Nvidia general counsel Tim Teter, or face subpoenas.

At the center of the inquiry are Nvidia's safeguards against foreign espionage and the export controls on advanced chips. Lawmakers want to question Huang about his contacts with Alice Huang and the company's handling of sensitive technology. President Donald Trump, who said on November 9 that the FBI is investigating, called the scandal "horrible" and had earlier urged Huang to fight for his position before he resigned.

The fallout is already financial: Huang will forfeit about $108 million in unvested Nvidia stock, and shares slid again on Thursday as the third allegation surfaced.

The questions now go beyond one man's conduct. Kress inherits a firm whose chips power much of the AI industry, a board that must explain what it knew and when, and a Congress that wants answers under oath.

Sources: Reuters (via reporting, November 12); The New York Times (November 11); TechCrunch timeline (November 12); New York Post (November 12); Business Today (November 13); Moneycontrol live blog (November 13).