Before Nvidia publicly announced Jensen Huang’s departure, Elon Musk said he wanted to hire him. “That would be an honor,” Musk wrote on X Wednesday evening, responding to a post that read: “Elon please hire Jensen.” The exchange followed a Wall Street Journal report that Nvidia’s board was preparing to oust its cofounder, according to
The Chinese internet is lamenting the loss of Nvidia’s “soul,” aka its scandal-ridden former CEO Jensen Huang. Nvidia announced Huang’s resignation on Thursday, after three of his extramarital affairs came to light. Huang, who is both a Taiwanese and American citizen, has long since had clout in the East. With his Taiwan food crawls, annual
Jane Street, one of Wall Street’s leading quantitative trading firms, more than doubled its Nvidia holdings in the third quarter, according to regulatory filings released Thursday and reviewed by Fortune. The securities filings show the firm’s positions as of Sept. 30—just over six weeks before Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO following reports of extramarital
President Donald Trump said he talked to Jensen Huang on Wednesday, a day before the Nvidia CEO resigned. In an interview with Stephen A. Smith at the White House, Trump said Huang called him and talked about the impact the affair scandal has had on his family. “I spoke to him yesterday. He’s going through
Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here, filling in for Beatrice Nolan. In today’s issue: Before we get to the news, can I just say, you are not going to want to miss this year’s edition of Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco. We have an exceptional line-up of speakers for you: OpenAI president Greg
Jensen Huang spent 33 years building a company that would become indispensable to the AI revolution. Now, it will have to learn to exist without him. The Taiwanese immigrant who once scrubbed toilets at a Kentucky reform school became one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives by turning gaming chips into the engine that fueled
