The disruption was only partly caught on Nvidia's livestream, but footage filmed by attendees and shared on X shows the protesters with a Greenpeace-branded banner partially obscuring the screen behind Huang. He told the hall "It's okay, go easy" as security escorted them out, adding "I'll talk to you later" and, once the hall settled, quipping: "All important issues, but let me get through my keynote."

The complaint appears to relate to recent reports that Nvidia's Jetson Orin modules, consumer-grade chips sold to students, developers and startups, have been recovered from Russian cruise missiles and AI drones. One August report claimed a Russian drone with fully autonomous targeting killed three civilians in Ukraine, described as the first documented case of its kind, with images of the recovered drones showing Jetson Orin modules inside. Nvidia has said the modules are not available in Russia and are not designed for military purposes, but acknowledged it cannot track the resale of pre-owned chips after sale.

Huang pressed on with the keynote regardless, pitching Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision with factory-built DSX POD AI infrastructure, voice-commanded robot ducks from Pollen Robotics and a humanoid robot reference platform from Agile Robots. He also claimed that DSX, at 2 gigawatts, could save 54 million litres of water a day, a point that landed in the same hall as the environmental protesters he had just had removed.