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The tech giant affairs that came before Jensen Huang’s scandal

Nvidia’s CEO isn’t the first tech titan undone by an affair, but the alleged Chinese spy link sets his apart.

Weekend Reading

Hotel Indigo Potts Point

No two hotels the same: inside IHG’s global Hotel Indigo experiment

Paul Christiano and Geoffrey Hinton at the Hinton Lectures in Toronto

‘Sock puppets’: the Hinton Lectures ring a three-year alarm bell on AI outsmarting human control

New hope for kids with peanut allergy, but first we need ‘north of $150m’

Q-CTRL Ironstone Opal quantum gravimeter

Q-CTRL becomes Australia’s first quantum unicorn with US$290 million raise

Featured

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaking at the National Press Club

Will Australia be the first country to criminalise AI non-compliance?

Outlook is still down for Australian users, and Microsoft admits its fixes aren't working.

Outlook and Teams recover from 24-hour outage as Microsoft says it’s ‘deeply sorry’

American Airlines planes parked at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

US blames ‘decades-old’ equipment for nationwide grounding as flights resume

Illustration of Jensen Huang in his leather jacket

Jensen Huang Ousted: Timeline Of The Nvidia Scandal

Canva cofounders Cliff Obrecht, Melanie Perkins and Cameron Adams.

Canva founders would ‘happily stand aside’ if no longer fit to lead, Cliff Obrecht tells staff

Life

Hotel Indigo Potts Point

No two hotels the same: inside IHG’s global Hotel Indigo experiment

Aurel Bacs of Phillips presides over the highest watch auction in history

Phillips rocks the watch world with record $112 million auction

Josh Niland, Saint Peter. Image: Supplied

Sydney’s Saint Peter makes the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for 2026

Model wearing a Buccellati bracelet and earrings from the San Giorgio set

Lightsabers, jewels and a $259,000 foosball table: Inside Neiman Marcus’s ultra-luxe Christmas gift guide

Molteni&C Surry Hills, Sydney

Why Molteni&C is making a bigger bet on Australia

Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal reacts during a UEFA Nations League match against Wales in Lisbon

Billionaire soccer legend Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from Portugal national team

Issue 25

Chris Lucas

How Chris Lucas built a restaurant empire by thinking like a property developer

Morris of Rutherglen

The family that keeps turning up at the winery they haven’t owned for 56 years

Rick Stein reveals his favourite city, car and dream dinner guests

Graphic illustration of dice and board game

Where I’m putting the money: Simone Haslinger

From Synchron to Australian Ultra Bionics

Dali Kaafar centre with Brad Joffe (left) and Peter Eckermann.

How a Sydney professor built an AI army to scam the scammers

Billionaires

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking at an event in Berlin

The tech giant affairs that came before Jensen Huang’s scandal – and what happened to their companies

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaking at a Washington event

Mark Zuckerberg overtakes Michael Dell as world’s fifth-wealthiest person

Nvidia cofounder and former CEO Jensen Huang

Nvidia’s seven billionaires have lost a third of their wealth amid Jensen Huang’s affairs scandal

Jensen Huang speaking at GTC Berlin

Jensen Huang had a third affair – with another Nvidia employee, report says

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, gives a keynote address at the Nvidia GTC conference in Berlin

Nvidia preparing to oust Jensen Huang, reports

Paris Jackson

Michael Jackson’s estate is now worth $2 billion. His daughter says she can’t access it

Entrepreneurs

A hidden sliding door concealing a room of Star Wars memorabilia, installed by Murphy Door

This firefighter built a $60 million secret door company with customers like Post Malone

MetAI Technology digital twin of a semiconductor fab

This Nvidia-backed AI startup is helping chip giants save time and money

What I’d tell my younger founder self

How Alchemy Charge is transforming standard sockets into commercial EV chargers

They grew up amid blackouts. Now they’re developing AI to keep the lights on

The Allis Family

How this Boost Juice heir walked away from Yo-Chi – and still made millions

Innovation

Grand Theft Auto VI promotional artwork shown on a screen

‘GTA VI’ has already sold $1 billion+ in preorders – but may not revive console sales amid AI-driven price hikes

Expedia Group headquarters in Seattle

Russian cyberattackers hit Expedia, with nearly a billion traveller records exposed

Anthropic Claude, the AI assistant

Claude posts massive month-over-month traffic boost as Anthropic IPO looms

Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei at the Viva Technology conference in Paris

How much Dario Amodei and his six cofounders could be worth at Anthropic’s IPO price range

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin

Jensen Huang is no longer among the world’s 10 richest as Nvidia slump continues

Anthropic targets $1.4 trillion valuation in highly anticipated IPO

BrandVoice

Ali Olmec, CEO Jim's Cleaning

Building franchises that last

How SyncTech is turning property data into more informed insurance decisions

Roborock’s Quan Gang on why smarter robots should demand less from us

Investing

Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy speaking on stage

Xero initiates $1 billion stock buyback plan as CFO flags departure

David Jones to close 19 stores by the end of the year

Buyers circle David Jones as it restocks ahead of Black Friday: ‘Extraordinary interest’

Elon Musk speaking at a satellite conference in Washington, DC

Elon Musk’s fortune drops $80 billion amid tech stock rout

Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison seated in the Oval Office at the White House

Larry Ellison falls out of top 10 in billionaire rankings as Oracle plunges

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking on stage at GTC Berlin

Jensen Huang sheds $12 billion as Nvidia shares sink, falling two spots in billionaire rankings

Leadership

Anna Hannaford named Managing Director of Forbes Australia

U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff’s Australian roots and meteoric political rise

Forbes Asia November issue cover featuring Asia's Power Businesswomen 2026

Meet the 20 women pushing boundaries in Asia’s Power Businesswomen 2026 list

The personal branding paradox: Why imperfection makes you perfect

A Forbes Asia Power Businesswomen 2026 honoree

Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen 2026

NAB to cut 2,500 roles in restructure amid economic turbulence

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