TechCrunch reported on November 8, 2026, that Yale leadership scholar Jeffrey Sonnenfeld put Jensen Huang’s chances of remaining NVIDIA CEO at “about a 50-50.” Sonnenfeld called his career salvageable, while warning that the conduct under review could still produce an irreversible loss of confidence. The immediate backdrop is NVIDIA’s November 8, 2026 announcement of an independent investigation into reporting that Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence effort. Independent directors…