Revelation keeps market on edge over Nvidia chief Jensen Huang and artificial intelligence boom

When a high-profile chief executive is in trouble, investors worry about key-person risk and whether the company will continue to prosper. But what if that businessman is crucial to an entire narrative that has underpinned the global markets boom?

The path forward for Nvidia — and Huang’s future — will depend on what emerges from the board’s fact-finding process. But the revelation itself is shaking up the entire artificial intelligence world. Nvidia is not only the sector’s most valuable publicly listed company, with a market cap of $4.5 trillion, but has lent its own creditworthiness to speed up infrastructure growth.