--- title: "Jensen Huang Has Been Sacked by Nvidia. Elon Musk Says He’ll Hire Him" description: "Elon Musk said it would be an \"honor\" to hire Jensen Huang as the Nvidia founder faced calls to step down." date: "2026-11-12" modified: "2026-11-12" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore.md" url: "https://futurism.com/future-society/jensen-huang-sacked-nvidia-elon-musk" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" --- # Jensen Huang Has Been Sacked by Nvidia. Elon Musk Says He’ll Hire Him ![Tesla CEO Elon Musk (L) talks with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center.]() *Win McNamee/Getty Images* It happened. Jensen Huang, after becoming the center of the tech scandal of the year, has resigned as CEO of Nvidia, the multitrillion dollar empire he founded. The scandal, and [subsequent abdication](), has tanked the AI chipmaker's stock — but not Huang's standing among his fellow tech elites. In the hours before Huang was in effect sacked by his own board, as it was looking increasingly clear he'd be heading out the door, Elon Musk said he'd embrace Huang at one of his companies with open arms. "Elon please hire Jensen," the right wing financial blog Zerohedge [tweeted]() on Wednesday evening. "That would be an honor," Musk [replied](). Huang admitted to having an [extramarital affair]() with Alice Huang (no relation), a Chinese businesswoman who's an executive at a Singapore-based cloud-computing company called Megaspeed. Alice Huang has been accused by the US government of being a Chinese intelligence asset who allegedly spied on Huang and possibly used her company to divert Nvidia's AI chips to China. Despite the seriousness of this scandal, many wealthy elites and tech figures have jumped to defend Nvidia's Huang, perhaps conscious of the fact that they owe the AI boom to his hardware and his money — which is now a significant driver of the entire global economy. There aren't many people who could get exposed for cheating on their wife and then have the US president go on a presser the next day and call him "honorable guy," [which is exactly what Donald Trump did](). Fellow billionaire Bill Ackman joined in on the Huang parade by venerating him as an "incredible human." And then there's Musk. Days before saying hiring Huang would be an "honor," he [endorsed]() a post by Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire that called Huang "one of the greatest entrepreneurs of this generation" and "irreplaceable for America's AI leadership." Cheating on your wife while sleeping around with business associates — and your own employees, as it [emerged yesterday]() — is probably an easy thing to look past for Musk, who has his own track record of dubious relationships. He blew up his friendship with Google cofounder Sergey Brin by [reportedly]() sleeping with his wife, precipitating the couple's divorce. He also had a relationship and [fathered children with Shivon Zillis](), who was a board member at his brain implant company Neuralink. And that's not even getting into his [alleged history of sexual misconduct](). What we're seeing now is titans of the industry circling the wagons around one of their own. And it reveals a lot about their own values — these are the people, after all, who say we should trust them to lead us into a supposed AI utopia. **More on Nvidia:** [*It’s a Really, Really Bad Day for Nvidia*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]() ## More - [“Diva Down:” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Resigns]() - [Can We Just Take a Moment to Reflect on How Horrible It Is That Jensen Huang Cheated on His Wife Who Had Supported Him for So Many Decades as He Rose to Incredible Power and Fame?]() - [As Multiple Affairs Emerge, Calls Grow for Jensen Huang to Resign]() - [If Jensen Huang’s Wife Cuts Him Loose, She Could Get the Largest Divorce Settlement of All Time]() - [Trump Says It’s Fine for a CEO to Cheat on His Wife With an Alleged Spy]() - [Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children’s Minds to AI Is a Price He’s Willing to Pay]() - [Nvidia Pulled Strings to Shut Down a US Government Investigation Into Chip Smuggling]() - [It’s a Really, Really Bad Day for Nvidia]()