The company that makes the chips behind much of the AI we use every day is suddenly looking for a new CEO.

Jensen Huang, who co-founded Nvidia and ran it for 33 years, resigned Thursday after reports of two extramarital affairs: one was reportedly with a Nvidia executive who worked for him named Kimberly Powell, the other was with Alice Huang (no relation), a former executive at Nvidia customer Megaspeed whom U.S. officials suspect of spying for Beijing.

Before all this, Trump and Huang knew each other pretty well. Huang was already one of Trump's tech advisers, and Nvidia had been asking the administration to let it sell more AI chips in China. When Trump invited Huang to Beijing at the last minute in May, the executive hopped aboard Air Force One during a fuel stop in Alaska.

When the allegations involving Alice Huang came up at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31, reporters asked whether Trump would keep Huang on as a tech adviser. Trump said he'd like to. "I’ve always found Jensen Huang to be very above board," he told reporters at his Florida resort on Halloween.

A little over a week later, on Nov. 8, reporters asked Trump again about Jensen Huang's future, this time at Nvidia. Earlier that day, Huang had apologized to employees in a bombshell email admitting he'd been unfaithful to his wife. Nvidia opened an investigation into whether he'd been targeted by foreign intelligence after reports of an affair with suspected spy Alice Huang.

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