科技界目前最具权势的女性是英伟达新任临时首席执行官科莱特·克雷斯——但她的前任黄仁勋在最近一次关于该话题的来回交锋中，未曾提及她。
The most powerful woman in tech at this very moment is Colette Kress, the new interim CEO of Nvidia—but her predecessor, Jensen Huang, failed to mention her in a recent back-and-forth about the topic.
今年秋季早些时候，《连线》刊发了一篇深度报道，探讨在一个传统上由男性主导的行业中，女性掌握权力这一复杂议题。我们质疑为何硅谷没有像埃隆·马斯克或黄仁勋那样的女性英雄（或反派），并得出结论：无论女性是否掌握巨额财务资本、施展政治才干、主导文化规范，还是在智力上绕过行业其他人，权力的衡量标准对她们而言依然截然不同。
Earlier this fall, WIRED published a feature story exploring the complex topic of power for women working in an industry traditionally dominated by men. We questioned why Silicon Valley doesn't have an Elon-esque or Jensen-like female hero (or villain) and determined that the rubric of power still looks different for women, whether they manage to hold significant financial capital, flex their political prowess, dictate cultural norms, or run intellectual circles around the industry.
我们还得出结论：科技界并非只有一位杰出女性，而是有许许多多：苏姿丰、格温·肖特韦尔、劳伦·鲍威尔·乔布斯，以及数十位其他人。当时担任英伟达首席财务官的克雷斯也在文中获提及。
We also determined there wasn’t just one singular impressive woman in tech, but a whole lot of them: Lisa Su, Gwynne Shotwell, Laurene Powell Jobs, and dozens more. Cress, then-CFO of Nvidia, was also given a nod.
作为报道过程的一部分，《连线》希望纳入硅谷几位资深男性的见解。因此我们直接致邮黄仁勋，征求他的看法。
As part of the reporting process, WIRED wanted to include the insights of a few established men in Silicon Valley. So we emailed Huang directly to ask for his thoughts.
他回复称，“[Meta的]迪娜·鲍威尔、[谷歌的]露丝·波拉特”浮现在脑海，因为“我在华盛顿时会见到她们”。在进一步追问下，黄仁勋也同意肖特韦尔——SpaceX总裁兼首席运营官——令人印象深刻。
He responded that “[Meta’s] Dina Powell, [Google’s] Ruth Porat” came to mind, because he “see[s] them when I’m in DC.”After some prompting, Huang also agreed that Shotwell, the president and COO of SpaceX, was impressive.
值得注意的是，黄仁勋未提及自家公司职位最高的女性高管，这位高管几乎陪同他出席每一次季度财报电话会，对英伟达财务状况的了解恐怕超过世界上任何其他人。作为首席财务官，克雷斯是全球市值最高公司之一不可或缺的一部分——按任何衡量标准，她都是科技界最具权势的女性之一。
Notably, Huang didn’t mention the highest-ranking woman executive in his own company, someone who joins him on nearly every quarterly earnings call and has deeper knowledge of Nvidia’s finances than probably anyone else in the world. As CFO, Kress was an integral part of one of the most valuable companies in the world—one of the most powerful women in tech by any measure.
作为临时首席执行官，克雷斯如今坐镇整个AI产业基石之巅，正值其最关键时刻。她在任期间做出的选择，将在科技、地缘政治及更广泛的经济领域产生深远回响。
As interim CEO, Kress now sits atop the bedrock of the entire AI industry at its most precarious moment. The choices she makes while in this role will reverberate across tech, geopolitics, and the broader economy.
无论这项晋升是否会成为永久任命，我们现在都知道克雷斯在科技行业拥有多大的影响力——而她未被列入黄仁勋名单，只是黄仁勋一长串错误决策中的一项。
Regardless of whether that promotion becomes permanent, we now know just how powerful Kress is in the tech industry—and that her omission from Huang’s list was just one in a long line of bad calls.