Jensen Huang didn’t show confidence in his successor, report says

The Wall Street Journal reported, citing an anonymous source, that former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang described CFO Collette Kress, now interim CEO, as "a deer in the headlights" during a summer presentation and said she couldn't help him steer strategy or decision-making. The report said Kress had questioned Nvidia's program-focused, credit-based deals involving Huang's son-in-law Nico Caprez and had earlier scaled back Nvidia's commitment to OpenAI's Ohio data center project from talks of $250 billion in credit to a $105 billion commitment. Huang resigned Thursday after reports of two extramarital affairs, and Reuters reported he was having a third affair with another employee; Nvidia is searching for a permanent CEO.