alt Hacker NewsNvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
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I don't know if this is Jensen himself or his advisors, but if you're going to make an apology, this is the way to do it.
There was, no deflection "this is not who I am", No blaming the spy.
He owned up to his mistakes
Probably he had to have an affair with that woman to give the CCP some leverage over him. Powerful financial entities nowadays won't allow you to have any opportunities unless they have have leverage over you.
Maybe he had to do it in order to be allowed to make sales in China.
I think I may have lost some big opportunities myself when I was in crypto because I was faithful to my wife. Powerful people need people who they can control. They need kompromat.
If you think last week's selloff in AI stocks was solely about the democrats winning a majority you're naive.
This was most certainly known about last week and front-run by insiders(maybe NVDA insiders, more likely Trump insiders, but we will probably never know).
I can't believe the naivete of people in this thread taking a well crafted statement to be a definite representation of how he feels. How the hell would you know? It feels direct and authentic? Yes, that is why the personal crisis management agencies are paid a load of money - to make things seems genuine.
The only thing verifiable so far is what he did.
Watch what he does in coming days, not what he says today.
At this point, we can safely start treating South Park as a documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V2HxWrlqqE
And with one letter, Jensen ceases to be a blackmail target candidate.
Author David Brin has been outspoken lately about politicians taking active measures at neutralizing the effects of blackmail, (which Jensen’s activity happens to match), in pointing to an older post of Brin’s: https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-hero-might-escape...
(i don’t recommend reading directly as it is verbose, but summarize with AI)
Caught with pants down while wearing leather jacket.
Bias: I'm a Chinese.
How did they met? If it was a spy operation, then it will be an interesting case study to learn how the spy agency managed to connect these two without raising suspicion, and the information can serve as a warning/education.
BTW, the woman is fine, sure, but not cheating-worthy fine. Why? A escort (a.k.a prostitute) is much safer and clean option for man like him if he's THAT desperate. https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1xrlb...
This is all very distressing, but I say: Let he who has not built the linchpin company of the industry the entire global economy is levered to and not risked it all in an extramarital affair with a chi-com honeypot cast the first stone!
> I am fully committed to NVIDIA and will work to earn back your confidence.
Hmm, just like you were fully committed to your wife?
Given what we have seen happen at Supermicro, for example, CEO smuggling NVIDIA chips to China, it seems unlikely that no one at NVIDIA suspected a thing. Why wouldn't they want to bolster their China business?
An "exposure" of affair[1] could very well be the best coverup: "couldn't control my dick" is the ultimate plausible deniability. Timing also makes sense. Better open an investigation and get it closed while this Congress is still in power, as the next one is going to be more in bed in LLM companies than hardware.
[1]: The other party is overtly a customer, not some random individual.
This reminds me of President Clinton's apology to his wife and the nation, except in this case, it's a letter so we can't be sure he even wrote it himself or feels the sentiment expressed therein. In any case, it matters not to the price of GPUs.
This is a strong worded letter from a person with balls.
Yet this person immediately demonstrated political obedience before trump, calling AI "super intelligence" immediately when trump renamed it and multiple times in his twitter.
I don't have a conclusion here.
I guess 2 Huangs don’t make a right.
10/10 dad joke satisfaction on this one.
> My family bears no responsibility for my choices. I do. Please give them privacy.
Props up the surveillance state with Palantir, requests privacy.
Oh my...
Mr. Rizzo has maintained that Mr. Huang’s interactions with Ms. Huang were “not unusual” and consistent with the kinds of meetings he has with any of Nvidia’s many customers.
You know you're worth zilch when you are not getting honeypotted; even by the Hot Singles in Your Area.
PSA: Don't tell your wife that you are now technically cheating on the other woman
he will only have to deal with the embarrassment of figuring out how to spend his golden parachute money. IF he gets ousted, which is not a guarantee at all.
Fell for the oldest trick in the book.
The threat of Chinese models running on NVIDEA hardware..
Enlighten me please: why should anyone (CEO included) apologise to employers/colleagues/board for a private matter such as an affair?
If he had moved the Nvidia HQ to France it might have reached the back-pages in the news but nobody would have cared.
It’s interesting how overall virtue signalling is presented as important whereas the bubble shaped valuation of Nvidia and built upon bubble valuations of major clients is not considered important enough for related statements or actions.
> you deserve better from me
This sentence is laughable without resignation.
Jensen does not need to resign.
He needs to stop using AI for these letters. Big power requires big responsibility (cit. S.M.)
A billionaire or powerful man had an affair? news at 11pm.
I listened to Jensen give a rousing speech extolling the benefits of hard, important work that you enjoy at a university more than a decade ago now. It wasn’t until many years later that I’d realized he’d shamelessly lifted the idea from Daniel Pink’s Drive (worth the read btw). I’m now wondering if his comments that his brains were what attracted his wife to him and him to his wife were perhaps less than honest as well.
Probably a big nothing burger... Sad to see someone so smart got the Christine Fang treatment. Spy agencies are really something.
This is like WW1 spy movie but IRL....ROFL
Would be hilarious if a man thinking with his dick and not his head causes the next US recession.
Probably time to step down and take the golden parachute, Huang. Your AI generated letter is doing nothing.
His fate will probably follow the Boston tech company CEO that got caught cheating with HR executive at a Coldplay concert.
Oh wow, the guy who pushed for being able to sell advanced AI chips to China was having an affair with a Chinese intelligence asset?
Shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Nobody cares. Nothing will happen/change. Move on.
I don't give a shit about affairs - that's personal business.
However if you lack the common sense to not fall for Chinese spies then your judgement really must be questioned.
Anyone else think that they’re only making this public not because it happened but because he’s tried to go against Trump and releasing this is payback/coercion
Big Tech CEOs - all of them are the same sociopathic liars...
Given the entire thing's paywalled, what's the tl;dr, and is it actual tech news or just drama?
Full text:
Subject: A message to our company
Body: "I owe my family and all of you an apology.
I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.
Throughout my life, my family has given me love and support. They deserve my honesty and loyalty. Instead, I let them down and damaged the life we built together. I take full responsibility for what I did and the hurt I caused, and I accept the criticism that comes with it.
To my wife and family: I love you. I know an apology cannot undo what I have done. I hope our family will heal and that, over time, I can earn back your trust.
To my colleagues at NVIDIA, including those I have worked alongside for decades, and to our board, partners, and shareholders around the world: you deserve better from me. Leading NVIDIA is the privilege of my life. My responsibility is to serve you and be worthy of your trust. I have fallen short of that responsibility. I am fully committed to NVIDIA and will work to earn back your confidence.
Regarding the national security concerns raised in news reports, NVIDIA's Board of Directors has initiated an independent investigation. I support the investigation and will cooperate fully. I love our country and our company, and I am committed to protecting NVIDIA and supporting America's national security. I am proud and grateful to be an American.
My family bears no responsibility for my choices. I do. Please give them privacy."
Actual article: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-company
If you are one of the most powerful man on earth you are going to be the target of all the secret services of all powerful countries. Period.
It is their job. You take decisions that are worth billions, you influence people that take decisions that are worth billions, and affect their countries.
They are going to study you for years. Your personality type and that of the people around you. Your weaknesses. Your problems and that of your family.
They will employ the most sweet and the most pleasurable and gorgeous honey that there is in the world to create the perfect Honey trap.
Normal people just can not imagine how sweet, specially when it has been customised around your needs and desires.
It is not just a woman wanting to have sex with you. It will be the woman in your dreams.
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I wonder if this was all planned out. Perhaps NVIDIA can't spearheaded by someone unimportant and dispensable like Jensen Huang. Watch him get replaced by someone from a very specific ethnoreligion.
Is he known to talk in his sleep?