Nvidia’s Jenson Huang Resigns as CEO
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Nvidia’s Jenson Huang Resigns as CEO

B1IntermediateNovember 12, 20261 min
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Here's your midday brief for Thursday, November 12. I'm Alex Ocela for The Wall Street Journal. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wong has resigned, bringing down the curtain on an era when he was a driver of the global AI boom and became a geopolitical star.

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He had two extramarital affairs, one with a suspected Chinese spy and another with an NVIDIA employee. The company said this morning that its finance chief, Collette Kress, will be the interim The board is starting a search for NVIDIA's next CEO and it will consider internal and

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external candidates. NVIDIA stock is down about 5% in mid-day trading, while broader markets are rising. Shares of some NVIDIA competitors like AMD and Broadcom are gaining. And home sales declined in October to their lowest levels since 2010.

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