Nvidia leadership scrutiny intensifies as Huang affair report adds pressure

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is facing a second set of affair allegations, this time involving someone inside the chipmaker. Cryptopolitan, citing people who have worked at Nvidia who allegedly spoke to The New York Times, identified the woman as Kimberly Powell, the executive responsible for Nvidia’s health care business. The report says Huang and Powell are both married, and the allegations have not been independently confirmed in the supplied coverage.

The reporting comes amid growing pressure on Nvidia’s leadership. BeInCrypto says the company has had one CEO for 33 years and that its board is reportedly preparing to remove Huang, while Decrypt reports that independent directors have retained Wachtell Lipton to investigate Huang’s ties to an alleged Chinese spy. Cointelegraph links the possible departure report directly to the New York Times story about the alleged second affair. Crypto.news said Polymarket traders had assigned an 89% probability to Huang’s resignation or removal by the end of 2027, based on data dated November 12.

The outlets broadly agree that the affair report and related scrutiny increased concern about Huang’s future at Nvidia, but their market figures vary. BeInCrypto cites shares falling 7.80% in overnight trading and nearly 10% after hours, while The Coin Republic reports a 6.96% after-hours drop that took the stock price to $161.64 ahead of earnings. CryptoPotato adds a trading-flow detail: roughly half of NVDAUSDT’s $2 billion in 24-hour volume came after the U.S. cash session closed as traders reacted to leadership reports. DeFiLlama’s live data shows Polymarket TVL at $312.97 million, up 3.0% over seven days.

The corporate backdrop makes the allegations particularly consequential. Huang has led Nvidia for 33 years, according to BeInCrypto, and the reported investigation involves the company’s independent directors rather than only a private workplace dispute. Decrypt’s focus is on the alleged spy-related ties and the law firm appointed to examine them, while Cryptopolitan and Cointelegraph emphasize the separate affair allegation. CryptoNews also included the leadership news in a broader bitcoin-market discussion that referenced Glassnode’s flagging of $500 billion in quantum-exposed BTC.

Crypto markets were comparatively subdued in the supplied live snapshot. Bitcoin was priced at $73,586, down 0.50% over 24 hours and 8.68% over seven days, with a market capitalization of $1.48 trillion. The total crypto market capitalization stood at $2.51 trillion and was broadly flat, while the Fear & Greed index registered 28, indicating a “Fear” reading. The figures do not show a broad crypto-market selloff tied to the Nvidia reports, although the reported volatility in NVDAUSDT after the U.S. cash session suggests continued attention to the leadership story.

The immediate areas to monitor are Nvidia’s board investigation, any company statement on Huang’s position and the identification or confirmation of a successor. Markets will also distinguish between an allegation, an investigation and an actual leadership change, while bitcoin traders watch whether the Nvidia-related volatility returns to broader risk assets. No supplied report establishes that the allegations alone caused the wider crypto market’s current performance, and the reported 89% Polymarket probability remains a prediction-market figure rather than a confirmed corporate outcome.