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2 affairs - one with a sub-ordinate and one is a foreign agent who got chip flow through to a sanctioned country.

Do we even know thats the end of this? This is only whats public at this point... It doesn't feel like the end of it but more like beginning to middle.

I'm trying to figure out who pushed this story through or if this is just bubbling up naturally.

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I am wondering if his public apology for being unfaithful to his wife (weird for it to be public, to his employees) is actually covering up for some corporate malfeasance.
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You mean alleged chipflow to China?
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Seems like this happened just after the US midterm elections, maybe there's something there?
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Perhaps they reached a conclusion that congress would inevitably discover this once real oversight happens, so they decided better to get it out now before Democrats are actually in control? It makes quite a lot of sense to do it now from that perspective. Who knows, maybe a presidential pardon shoe is about to drop as well.

I figured there will be quite a lot of people taking actions like this ... but nVidia was a surprise for sure.

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Right exactly. Two months is a long time for this to blow over. It will be far outside the news cycle before anyone is called up to Congress. This is the safest time there will ever be to rip the band-aid off.
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I think it’s factions within the GOP. Pro NatSec people wanted to get it out for a long time. Trump blocked. They agreed to keep a lid on it for the midterm to not embarrass Trump and thus hurt their side. Now they’re free to speak.
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Three things are happening that seem relevant for timing.

Midterms over, major loss of power for faction Huang seems linked to

Distillation getting harder

Anthropic IPO

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Not to mention the recent government rebranding to Superintelligence.

I think a new regulatory regime is coming.

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Your last sentence lacks clarity for me
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Commenter is saying the real news isn't the affairs. (Trump was told about the spy late 2025.)

But "whatever" happened to make them count.

E.g. Jensen angers some important people. Or someone decides NVIDIA has too much market control. Etc.

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I mean main media outlets know that the public really has turned on billionaires so this is some meat to feed the readers (great ad rev). Someone from the administration leaking the information to a reporter for sure wouldn't be surprising without knowing how much it would blow up. Also many other viable theories too.
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Which affair?
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It turns out he was banging an employee from his company, too. Dude is a sex addict.
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If Apple can survive losing Jobs, Nvidia can definitely survive losing Huang.
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Apple survived when Jobs returned.
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Been doing just fine without him since.
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I hope “fine” isn’t an illusion.
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Compared to what?
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A "windfall to China?" Jensen Huang seems to have been conspiring with Alice Huang to illegally sell high-end NVIDIA chips to China. That's a windfall to China.
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There is not going to be a stop of chips going into China.

If not exporting to Singapore, it will be exported to more countries that have more opaque business practices.

Kneecapping Nvidia in this case is absolutely a windfall to China, by allowing them time to catch up in semiconductor technologies

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Kneecapping Nvidia in this case is absolutely a windfall to China

This, right here. I'm no fan of the "CEO as god" line of thinking but given the past few years there's a strong indication that having him as CEO is going to produce a better outcome than the opposite case.

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China has a stated government policy they don't want Nvidia chips and you aren't allowed to import them.
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China have billions of $ of GPUs sitting on the dock because their government capped imports of nvidia.
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Pedantically: it's not a windfall if they specifically brought it about.
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Sure is convenient for everyone to spend all their time talking about the CEOs personal life than however many billions of prohibited sales have been happening here.
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let me get this straight :

standing on its' head your statement reads as :

"If the US doesn't allow government intervention into the business dealing of important private entities during times of scandal, to protect lies and initiate cover-ups, then China will win."

do I interpret that correctly?

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I am simply observing that at this level affairs are usually covered-up for the interest of the nation. This affair was covered-up for a bit, seeing as it was broadcast on Taiwan news in 2024, so something else changed for them to end the cover-up and broadcast the affair to America.
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Gates, Bezos, and now Huang ? Let's see, whose left ? Zuck ? I'm sure there are plenty of skeleton's hiding in his closet ...
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CIA hawks. Self-inflicted wounds again.
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llm slop
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One would hope.
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probably; reminds me of a quote by Chomsky making fun of postmodernists

> Some of what appears in it sort of actually makes sense, but when you reproduce it in monosyllables, it turns out to be truisms. It’s perfectly true that when you look at scientists in the West, they’re mostly men, it’s perfectly true that women have had a hard time breaking into the scientific fields, and it’s perfectly true that there are institutional factors determining how science proceeds that reflect power structures. All of this can be described literally in monosyllables, and it turns out to be truisms. On the other hand, you don’t get to be a respected intellectual by presenting truisms in monosyllables.

not 100% the same, but many have made careers out of writing simple ideas that can perfectly well be conveyed with ooga booga language (or alternatively "few word" like that one guy from the Office), using instead flowery impressive-sounding prose

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More like brAIn rot tbh
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