Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns over affair reports as Congress seeks interview

Jensen Huang resigned as chief executive of Nvidia on Thursday, ending more than 30 years at the helm of the top AI chipmaker 2

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. The resignation followed reports of extramarital affairs with three women, one of whom US intelligence suspects of spying for China 2

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Three decades, then a sudden exit

Huang built Nvidia into the top maker of AI chips and ran it for more than 30 years 2

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. The reports that preceded his exit name three women, including an Nvidia executive and a Chinese businesswoman US intelligence suspects of spying. That suspicion, which remains just that, is what gives a personal scandal national-security weight.

The lawyers

Huang has retained Paul Weiss as he deals with the fallout 2

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. It is a New York firm with more than 1,500 lawyers that corporations and executives have long turned to in regulatory, misconduct and reputational crises, staffed in part by former senior Justice Department officials 2

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. Per the New York Times, he is working with partners Melinda Haag and Walter Brown; Reuters could not independently confirm which lawyers represent him 2

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The firm, Nvidia and a Huang spokesperson declined to comment on the nature of the work 2

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. Paul Weiss carries its own political history: last year it struck a deal with Trump to rescind a March 2025 executive order that had suspended its lawyers' security clearances, drawing criticism from the legal profession and Democrats 2

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Congress and the board

Two other tracks are running in parallel. Nvidia's board has hired Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Kratz to run an independent investigation, led by Joon Kim, once a senior federal prosecutor in Manhattan 2

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. The company and its departed chief are now working through the same scandal on opposite sides of the table.

Separately, Republican chairs of multiple House committees, Foreign Affairs among them, sent a letter Thursday to Brown asking to question Huang behind closed doors next month 2

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