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Nvidia’s leader said his relationship with a female customer was just about business. But what he was concealing eventually led to his resignation from the company he created.

As Jensen Huang abruptly departs, the tech community grapples with an eternal question: Why do the smartest and most successful men so often act so stupidly?

In social media posts and letters to Nvidia’s board, Mr. Huang’s billionaire peers described him as a singular leader who could not be replaced at Nvidia.

A prolonged outage left many without email and other services, the most recent reminder that the world’s technological underpinnings rely on just a few companies.

Disruptions to the company’s email, messaging and other products lasted about 36 hours, hampering companies and services around the world.

Throughout the years, tech giants have had mixed records after losing visionary founders who propelled their success. Successors with tech expertise helps.

Mr. Huang championed start-ups, with Nvidia holding $48 billion worth of stakes in 229 private companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, at the end of July.

Dario Amodei, the company’s chief executive, publicly frets about the dangers of artificial intelligence and has made enemies of his peers along the way.

The company’s financial picture may get murky as it deals with employee stock compensation and the growing costs of artificial intelligence.

The company described “encouraging” progress on efforts to overcome a second day of disruptions to its email, messaging and other services.