The Week Jensen Huang Fell: How a Spy Scandal Toppled Nvidia’s CEO

In the span of a few days, the most powerful executive in artificial intelligence went from untouchable to unemployed. Jensen Huang, who built Nvidia from a graphics-card maker into the roughly $4 trillion engine of the AI boom, resigned Thursday after 33 years, felled not by a bad earnings report but by a scandal with the texture of a spy thriller. Here’s how a defining week for AI, and by extension crypto, unfolded. The crisis began with reports that Huang had grown close to Alice Huang (no relation), an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, one of Nvidia’s largest Southeast Asian customers,…