on the other hand, ethan klein finally found a new podcast co-host
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I smell a coup
😔
part of me believes this media storm and possibly even the whole story has been drummed up by the
because the top tech CEO can’t be a chinese american. especially not one who has advocated for cooperation with chinese engineers on AI.probably the best time to buy nvidia stock for anyone who was so inclined… nvidia is so integrated into all these other companies and the US GDP as a whole that it isn’t going anywhere, no matter who the CEO is
Buy the dip
totally… personally i’m not because we’re actively trying to find a house to buy that we can afford without cashing absolutely everything we have out, but its not looking good. buying a dip and then cashing out within 1 year sucks ass when taxes roll around the next year. i really don’t know how day-traders ever survive.
Good luck and god speed on that house
Shared by someone I know: Jensen Huang popped the AI bubble with his dick.
Seems to me the whole “honeypot” narrative is flimsy and kinda just based on sinophobia.
I think it is but I also heard recently that her company is mostly about smuggling nvidia chips into China. Not sure if it’s true but that would be awesome lmao
Bro set her up with a side hustle, that really shouldn’t constitute espionage on her part.
It is, but liberals don’t consider racism to be racism unless red maga is doing it. My friends were spamming memes about it in the group chat, one with the orientalist speech stereotype saying “I rove you”. Another laughed his ass off. I pointed out it was racist and they were very confused about what, exactly, was supposed to be racist about it. One of them topped it off with “but I love Asians”.
One of them topped it off with “but I love Asians”.
“They’re my favorite porn genre!”
I’ve been calling coworkers out left and right this week for being orientalist and misogynistic. Public shaming has worked so far to make people shut up
Interesting that the Chinese spy wasn’t the reason he quit. I appreciate the line was drawn at an ethics violation but being a high security risk should probably also put you out of that job too.
They’re way to happy to lap up the possibility because then they can just blame China for everything bad instead of capitalism
Don’t worry. Hakeem Jeffries is on the case and going to make it even worse
‘The American people deserve answers’
Earlier on Thursday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that espionage allegations at Nvidia will be investigated by Democratic members of Congress who will head important committees when Democrats assume the majority in January.
Jeffries, a potential candidate for House majority leader, said “the American people deserve answers” and that Congress will “get to the bottom of whether America’s national security has been compromised.”
They’re gonna spin their wheels on an investigative commission for 2 years and when everyone forgets about this they’ll find out that Huang was not honeypotted lmao
this is precisely what US citizens voted Democrats in for! investigations, not changing material conditions!
But investigation only in extremely specific and non impact full to anyone or anything!
hear hear!
start an affair with the ceo of a major tech company
short the stock super heavily
announce your affair to the media and that you’re also a very real spy with connections to the CPC
cover your shorts
rake in bajillions of dollars
who wants in on my latest get rich quick scheme?
“Jensen Huang is getting all this grief while pedophiles don’t get any of it.”
My scorching hot take? Huang is getting made fun of, he’s not getting grief. Sure, US export laws and whatever, but Chinese honeypot rumors are dry kindling for firey laughter.
Chairman Xi is Winnie the Pooh
Sends honeypots
Picture of Hideo Kojima
You have a million different angles. You can talk about the no prenup divorce for 1000 hours. You can talk about the stock tanking. You can talk about the bubble popping.
AND THEN you have the collective imagination, with just as much venom on their tongue as when Kirk got got, talking about the supposed spy. “That’s so interesting, so tell me about your GPUs.” “The last thing Huang sees before spilling all the secrets.” “Imagine someone who has trained not only in seduction, but spent hours training for you.” “The top of spy class gets to seduce Jensen, the bottom of the class has to seduce Asmongold.”
The situation fits squarely in the imagination; I don’t think Huang’s infidelity is correlated to a collective metering of justice. People voted for Trump because they believed, as misguided as anything else, that he was the anti-Epstein guy. People hate the Epstein class.
I think it’s entirely appropriate to view it through a sinophobia-analysis lens. The state department line of her connections to the CCP is, of course, dubious at best. Maybe the climate and mystique about China elevate it in the culture. But being seduced by a spy and popping the AI bubble is fucking funny regardless of the voracity of the facts or the relative level of wrongdoing.
Who’s eating the facts?! 😨 (voracity -> veracity)
Nick Mullen: what if the economy collapsed cuz some dude fucked a Chinese lady?
A man has affair(s) with ADULT women and he gets fired? What a world.
Definitely feels like some backdoor bougie maneuvering.
Billionaires have done far shittier things than reveal state secrets to foreign spies
That’s one of the few transgressions they actually take seriously tho. Potentially violating bourgeoisie “national security” means other bougies are potentially in danger too.
Usually what happens when it’s done to/with a person who is lower in terms of power/role.
Example boss screwing person who works under them almost always a resume generating event.
I mean, one affair was clearly a foreign honeypot while the other was his direct employee overseeing everyone else’s healthcare. Neither is a good look for any CEO, and both together is a one way ticket to the unemployment line. And when your company gets deemed as vital to national security, any compromise brings a ton of scrutiny.
The ONLY source we have is from the original NYT article on October 29: anonymous US intelligence officials. No journalist investigation and she hasn’t been seen in public since last year. Are you really going to trust the trump state department’s claim that she is a honeypot?
She is a data center CEO in Singapore. All this revealed is corruption between Nvidia and data center companies
She is a data center CEO in Singapore
Oh damn, didn’t Nvidia agree to a trade of 800k gpus to singapore?
his direct employee overseeing everyone else’s healthcare
Nvidia’s healthcare department which she is/was Vice President of is not related to providing healthcare for their employees, it’s about selling things to customers in the healthcare industry.
Is there actual falsifiable evidence that the affair was a foreign honeypot? Or is this another assertion by anonymous feds and intel orgs amplified by the media where everyone assumes somebody else (also anonymous) checked the facts and gave society an imaginary thumbs up
Cause my first assumption is that the reaction to this affair is racist mass-induced psychotic paranoia brought about by the background radiation of continuous western yellow peril journalism
Honeypot
Call it what you want, she was definitely sleeping with him to get him to skirt US export laws. I don’t buy that AI is a matter of national security, but Uncle Sam clearly thinks it is, so that’s an unforced error for a CEO to make. No company wants the government going through their records with a fine tooth comb, but now they are going to have G-men pouring over everything because Huang couldn’t keep it in his pants.
Jensen had his own incentives to sell chips to China.
This scam wasn’t just about evading US export controls. It was also about evading Chinese import controls.
Which is why the spy narrative is obviously bs but also the affair is just an extra detail here. Jensen would have been finding ways to sell chips to China even without that, and the megaspeed dealings are not the only example of him working towards that goal.
Basically the best case scenario for Nvidia is that Chinese data centers buy Nvidia chips which prevents domestic Chinese production from filling that gap. Nvidia’s moat is their intellectual property so they don’t want Huawei or whoever developing something comparable.
Wait, there are two affairs now?
Huang out to dryAll I’m hearing is that Huang is hung 🤤🤤🤤
This just makes SBF look like a genius for running his company as a polycule
He’s playing chess while Jenson was playing checkers
My slightly tinfoil hat theory here is that the ownership knew about Huang’s affairs for a while, and they were holding out on leaking it until the AI bubble started to pop so they could blame Huang for the stock price drop.
I read that trump was briefed on it last year, seems like big market manipulation. Conveniently, right before their competitor Anthropic’s IPO
Yeah the whole thing doesn’t make total sense. The dude presided over Nvidias ascension from video game hardware to world hardware behemoth—so him being pushed out only makes sense if you assume that the value gain that occurred under his tenure will not continue going forward. I don’t like people who cheat on their spouses, it’s disrespectful etc. but that alone doesn’t mean shit in the context of corporate power—they all do way worse things most likely (like epstien) and it’s not a problem for them.
There is also something to the theory in the news mega, which is basically that huangs interest as nvidia run counter to ai lab interests: open source free models are good thing for nvidia gpu sales, but a bad thing for openAI and Anthropic, since they can actually compete on price and need to instead create a rentier walled-garden and force people to use their monopolies via govt regulation and inability to obtain hardware.
It makes sense. I just don’t understand why Nvidia would do this to themselves, unless they think just having Huang as ceo is a liability and they can continue with sop
Yeah I mean maybe they think he’s not really necessary anymore. They can still print money as long as ai bubble keeps rolling, their pricing and availability is about as crazy as they could hope for already
The new news mega has another theory. There’s a screengrab in this comment - https://hexbear.net/comment/7603626
i wonder how long before they pass a law to make chinese gpu’s illegal
just after the Chinese LLMs
as long as it takes for those GPUs to be competitive
