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Nvidia’s board is reportedly discussing CEO Jensen Huang’s future, but no final decision has been disclosed. Colette Kress, Nvidia’s CFO since 2013, has support from some directors as a potential interim CEO and is viewed as a continuity option. Ian Buck, who joined Nvidia in 2004 and helped develop CUDA, leads hardware and software products for hyperscale AI and is being considered a stronger technical candidate for a long-term role. External names reportedly discussed include Arm CEO Rene Haas and Apple hardware chief Johny Srouji. The succession debate centers on preserving Nvidia’s technical judgment and CUDA ecosystem, which support its AI competitive position. Nvidia is scheduled to report quarterly results on November 17, while market attention is also focused on governance and the structure of any leadership transition.
Nvidia and CoreWeave were each down about 7% in U.S. premarket trading. The move extended across AI hardware: SK Hynix, SanDisk, and Micron each fell about 4%, while Seagate declined about 3%. Optical names Coherent, Credo, Lumentum, and Marvell each fell about 4%, and Corning declined about 3%. CoreWeave’s reported plan to sell investment-grade loans to raise at least $4 billion refocuses attention on financing capacity. Nvidia’s move follows reports alleging personal misconduct involving CEO Jensen Huang and saying the board is planning to remove him. The key market question is whether weakness in memory and optical stocks persists into regular trading, which would indicate broader pressure across AI infrastructure exposure.
Nvidia’s NVDA market has become Hyperliquid’s largest HIP-3 market, with open interest reaching $535 million and ranking fourth across the platform behind BTC, ETH, and HYPE. Open interest increased 5.8 times over seven days, reaching 2.4 times the previous $227 million high from before June. Daily trading volume topped $1 billion for the first time. Trading involved 9,517 wallets, with 83% holding long positions. Market makers accounted for 70% of short open interest. The largest position was Jump’s 348,000-share NVDA short, valued at about $56 million and described as non-directional. The largest directional position was a 191,000-share long opened within 24 hours, valued at about $30.7 million, with an average entry price of $174.43 and an unrealized loss of about $2.6 million. Across the market, the average long entry price was $169.55, while the mark price was $160.66, about 5.2% below the average entry price. Aggregate unrealized long losses were about $14.6 million. The data highlights concentrated long positioning and short-led market-making exposure as key conditions to monitor.
A whale opened a 191,000-share NVDA long at $174.4, valued at $33.31 million, after NVDA declined following reports involving NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. The position became Hyperliquid’s largest NVDA long, according to on-chain analyst Ember, but later showed a $2.57 million unrealized loss after NVDA fell below $160 in post-market trading. The move followed reports of a second alleged extramarital-affair partner and rumors that NVIDIA’s board was considering removing Huang. Market attention is focused on whether NVDA can reclaim the whale’s $174.4 entry level and whether the management-related rumors receive verification. The supplied summary also notes that the concentrated, leveraged position faces liquidation and risk-management pressure if volatility persists.