Nvidia shaken by scandal amid wider political new order for big tech

Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, speaks during the company's keynote at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 6 January 2025. Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, speaks during the company's keynote at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 6 January 2025. A scandal tests Nvidia's dominance as tech billionaires seek to mend ties with Democrats after the midterm elections This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Today in tech, we're talking about Nvidia's salacious scandal, tech tycoons trying to reconcile with Democrats, and what billionaires should spend their money on if not elections. On the opening night of Web Summit in Lisbon, the Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang's admission that he had an affair with a Chinese datacenter executive suspected to be a spy for Beijing hit the main stage.