On January 6th, 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got his rockstar moment at last. He strode triumphantly onstage, hand raised in the air, to the claps and cheers of a 14,000-person arena absolutely packed with influencers and fans, their faces awash in blue glow, as he made his entrance in a black leather jacket that shimmered in the stadium’s lights.

Few are cheering for Jensen Huang now. He has left Nvidia after seemingly enabling two chip smuggling scandals and allegedly having three extramarital affairs , including one with an alleged Chinese spy at the same time he was mingling with President Donald Trump.

The world is watching to see if this scandal might disrupt the entire US AI industry and perhaps destabilize the stock market along with it.…