This seems like a coordinated hit, slowly releasing more and more information. What's really going on?

One affair always brings up other affairs out of the closet. Same rule goes for harassment and abuse claims.

That’s what is going on.

The better metaphor is "where there's smoke, there's fire."

Three different news orgs have reported the different affairs.

It might just be that the one affair learned that she is not the only one and went public. Then the third one also learned that she is not the only one ...

It does look coordinated, but that doesn’t mean it was pre-arranged.

When you see bird flocks or fish schools moving in coordinated ways, they didn’t arrange all that in advance. They’re observing each other and reacting in real time. Quite a lot of coordinated movements develop this way, among people as well as other animals.

A person who forgets that this type of coordination is possible might end up spending their life endlessly looking for the man behind the curtain in every moment of coordination they come across.

This happens all the time with news stories and doesn't require conspiracy theories. Once an initial story breaks, other journalists investigate (if they weren't already). No doubt Nvidia started investigating internally and employees will have leaked the findings.

There isn't really even any point in this third story from the point of view of any "coordinated attack". He's already resigned.

Then lens of scrutiny is what keeps the story rolling.

Media focus works in waves.

Wall Street and the powers that be want total control over AI and the companies involved in it

It's not especially newsworthy that there are rumours a CEO is having an (apparently entirely consensual) affair with one of his employees. It becomes newsworthy if he's also been having an affair with a Chinese spy.

I don't think you can easily run "Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with [an] employee, according to two people familiar with the matter" unless it's clearly a matter of public interest, which it becomes when it's apparently more than one and on the heels of the other story.

Are you serious? He had multiple affairs is what's going on. Including one with a spy. And people who wouldn't be believed before are now coming forward.

There's probably some mildly interesting risk-balancing that happened behind the scenes because the intel community apparently knew mid-2026 and only spilled the beans now, but this is entirely of Jensen's own doing. He confessed.

He clearly is a top performer, though, managing four-plus relationships is a big job.

"A coordinated hit"

Do we as an industry really not have the ability to comprehend that 1) you shouldn't be sleeping with your employees and 2) that no matter how much value you generate, there will be people who find that sort of behavior morally repugnant and that it can ruin your career if you engage in it?

As others have said I think it's a measure for the opportunists in government and OpenAI and Anthropic to get rid of open weights and Chinese models. Jensen Huang was advocating open weights.

Maybe this time next year using models other than Claude and OpenAI will be illegal somehow with nvidia kernel level implementations to block vram usage to granted to unsigned providers or something.

Correlation isn’t causation always. Once there’s a scandal, more people start digging, and the more they dig, the more they find. The news cycle continues rewarding more information, so you keep getting more.

or maybe a spotlight that encourages more investigation, i.e. smoke => fire? Isn't that more likely than some sort of vast conspiracy?

just to diversify this subthread a little, i actually do see the perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50476972

tbf, these side affairs i think are more just people piling on

I think that the JD Vance camp after the 2026 mid-terms, needs a way to distinguish themselves from Rubio, who has largely been an administration favorite and the VP handles tasks typically delegated to the Secretary of State. Between this which is still forming, and Vance reportedly being vocal about not going to war in Iran, there will be a few distinguishing bullet points. I can't imagine insiders didn't know that the man from one of the world's top two multi-trillion dollar companies was having multiple affairs that could easily be used to blackmail him.

Bless the fellow HN folks.

It’s a common tactic to make sure the scandal stays on the front page and it’s untenable to try to stay on. Politicians do this all the time. Scandals happen constantly, it they’re saved for when they are most useful. Jensen is in politics, whether he realises it or not.

China may be behind it as an attempt to sabotage America’s economy. But I actually think more likely the Americans as Nvidia haven’t complied sufficiently.

I really feel for Jensen. He’s dedicated his life to Nvidia and really is heavily responsible for its success. It must be devastating to have to step away from it.

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> What's really going on?

A lesson, apparently, for everyone asking "what the big deal is".

If ever you wanted to understand the meaning of the word "liability", here it is.

"Coordinated hits", as you put it, have as their prerequisite the creation of a "liability".

Journalism plus circumstances loosening tongues and reducing the downside of being truthful.

As the British police are fond of saying in cold case appeals: allegiances shift.

Dont mess up with the intelligence community. He should have talked more to Jack Ma.

> What's really going on?

him sleeping around, hth

A serial adulterer is revealed to have adulterated serially, and SV types are spilling oodles of ink attempting to justify loose morals and bad decision-making so long as it brought increased shareholder value.

I am reminded of the tv series "the shield". When it ends, our guy is asked "what all do you have to declare". I am paraphrasing.

Pretty sure the board asked the same question. Having finally been called to do their work, they can't just close the books without asking "what else do you have to declare" to both Jensen and at least all the direct reportees. And if there was a declaration, you can always find someone to leak it to the media.

Not saying that happened, just saying that it is likely such direct questions were asked and answered last few days.

Agree. Jensen definitely orchestrated a coordinated hit on multiple employees.

Yeah IDK maybe sleeping with a Chinese Spy and then circumventing US Export bans might be a bad thing. Maybe just don't do that.

Buy low, sell high

>> What's really going on?

A shell game. This is the distraction portion. Then comes the switch, the reveal and the swipe. Watch the market indicators. Nobody buying and selling shares in a trillion-dollar company cares one iota about extramarital affairs. Something else is happening.

It's weird, right? You see the same thing in police investigations. Oh, they know some things early, then, later, release more information? We're not that dumb.

When a real scandal happens, everything we know or will ever know gets dropped all at once. Anything else and you know someone is pulling the strings. The question is who? My money is on the arrow of time.

wait until you hear he uses ATI chips at home

he's getting investigated? are you under a rock

Entrapment, they (FBI, whatever) knew about the "spy" and yet didn't go like ... "Hey Jensen, we gotta tell you something..." Pathetic.

> What's really going on?

Jensen was not on the Epstein list. That omission is now coming back to haunt him.

As it turns out, Huang was a fallible human being.

journalists pumping their sources