At a major Silicon Valley AI conference, VCs and CEOs grapple with a future without Jensen Huang
Business Insider reports that Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO on November 12, 2026, hours before the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in San Francisco, following reports of extramarital affairs, and that Nvidia named longtime CFO Colette Kress interim CEO. At the summit, VCs and CEOs including Databricks' Ali Ghodsi and General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja said Huang had been a safety net for AI startups and worried his absence could spur startups to turn to rivals like AMD and Google.
