Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is stepping down as CEO of the chipmaker he co-founded 33 years ago and built into a $4 trillion company that powered the artificial intelligence boom.
After a meteoric rise to fame due to Nvidia’s central role in AI, Huang’s dramatic fall has been even more rapid, following a series of stinging revelations about his romantic ties to a woman believed by the U.S. intelligence community to be a Chinese spy.
His poor fucking wife was instrumental to building this company, even pawning her own wedding ring to help finance the company in its fledgling years.
As a middle age wife to a successful entrepreneur, this is literally my worst fear. I met him over a decade ago when he had less than $1k to his name and I supported him (financially and otherwise) throughout our early years until his company actually became something that contributed to our bills. It terrifies me to think there is a real possibility that I could invest the majority of my life, my best youthful decades, to a man who ultimately would not hesitate to trade me in for a younger model after I’ve been his ride or die bitch for decades, and made so many personal sacrifices to help him to build a personal empire… while I don’t think my partner would do that, this is a tale as old as time, and it be silly for me to assume that our relationship is an exception. Excess money and power fucks with people’s moral code. Opportunity begets betrayal.
So after decades of loyalty and playing a critical role in building his company, and raising his children , this fucker has the audacity to repay his wife by publicly humiliating her like this? Meanwhile, the online apes criticize this 65 y/o woman’s appearance and turn this whole situation into a joke. wtf did she do to deserve this treatment of her?
I digress. His poor fucking wife. What a nightmare. I feel terrible for her.
Not a lawyer but pretty sure a prenup wouldn't matter in CA for this anyways. If they married when he was a nobody with no assets, their finances and wealth are community property, 50/50, with some exceptions for things like inheritance.
> As a middle age wife to a successful entrepreneur, this is literally my worst fear.
I was with someone from my late 20s to my mid 30s only to find out she cheated on me. Even then I was like, "What in the actual fuck am I supposed to do now!?"
Every method I knew for meeting women & developing relationships was centered on things that are only available to young people.
Now imagine being with someone your entire adult life, and only learning that they were an unfaithful scumbag in your mid-sixties…
I don’t know how someone recovers from that. While I’m sure the money helps, this is a woman who initially chose to marry an unwealthy man simply because she loved him. As such, I’m sure the significant divorce settlement would be an unsatisfactory consolation prize considering that she was never in this marriage for the money in the first place….
They weren’t always billionaires though… like she chose to love him and fully supported his dreams even when he/they were poor. She was with him before this company (and all its financial success) was even a twinkle in his eye. I think that should mean something, but for the vast majority of wildly successful men, it doesn’t appear to mean much of anything… there is ample evidence that, upon finding financial success, men are inclined to trade their faithful wives in for younger models… I think that’s sad.
She was with him from the beginning because, unlike his future partners, she truly loved him; she was never with him for his money… so I’m sure she’d happily trade all that money for a faithful partner who loved her, just as she did him. I know I would.
I get it. It sucks what happened to her. But she’s a billionaire now. Thus I don’t really feel bad for her. She will be fine. She has her kids, her family, and I don’t think she’s the one humiliated (he is). She didn’t do anything shameful. She’s the next bezo’s wife (forgot her name). She can take true billions and so good for the world
There is a saying, "If she doesn't want him when he's poor, he won't want her when he's rich."
Faithless degenerates like Jensen Huang, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates have no moral integrity. They are selfish scum led around by their dicks. The women they've betrayed deserved better.
She should have pulled out when he started to get lost in the sauce. He wasn’t the only Nvidia founder. The other ones quit while they were ahead, after realizing they now have more than enough money for the entire family to be set for life.
Meanwhile his side piece has been flaunting her grip on the man for years on social media, and the photo of him signing a female fan’s boobs has long been public.
> She should have pulled out when he started to get lost in the sauce.
His vain cosplaying in the leather jacket everywhere has been so cringe-inducing. It is completely predictable that he would get caught by the dick in a corporate espionage scandal. What a dipshit.
Jensen (and his wife) are actually a rags to riches billionaires though, we should support people who pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Not like Bezos who worked in a hedge fund and had his family give him millions to start his company or Gates who's parents were already incredibly wealthy and worked at IBM to get software deals done.
Jensen started working at denny's and the company was founded with just $40k.
Some of you people have such a bizarre world view. They are exactly like you "normal people". I dont know what is up with this brain dead reddit belief that once your networth crosses a billion dollars, you are forever changed and no longer a normal person. Once you're rich enough that money no longer matters, it makes no difference if you're a few hundred millionaire or a billionaire. A person who started a failure of a business vs someone who started an Nvidia is still the same person. The fact one was more successful doesnt inherently change anything.
It does. That level buys power that normal people cannot have.
I’m poor too in comparison (only 8 figure net worth). It’s a different world when I hang out with my 9 figure friends. Cannot imagine even the 10 figure ones.
People in power are not ‘normal’ people . And if you don’t get it, well you just don’t
And people in power who don’t have that much money are also not normal people. Those who can influence the lives of millions, you want to tell me they’re normal people? lol
> I’m poor too in comparison (only 8 figure net worth). It’s a different world when I hang out with my 9 figure friends. Cannot imagine even the 10 figure ones.
We can agree to disagree. I can see you like to chase intelligence being in this sub but it keeps running away from you considering you like to name-call 🤣
As a massive Nvidia share holder (bought it in 2019) this move by Huang cost me and many others a good amount of my portfolio. I'm down bigly and pretty annoyed at this entire situation. Sucks man.
After the first allegation broke that it was a Chinese spy I knew he was cooked while many others were joking . It's all jokes but it's very serious too.
It is a small blip that will be reversed through buying from bargain hunters. Fundamentals have not changed due to Jensen Huang's idiotic behavior.
It will be the overbuying of chips by AI corps piling them up in warehouses because they don't have sufficient power - all fueled by circular financing that will eventually pop and drive a collapse.
> Fundamentals have not changed due to Jensen Huang's idiotic behavior.
Short term, yes, but holding long term comes with a lot of question marks. There was a lot of reporting around the fact that he had not been mentoring a successor when this news broke so it's hard to know what the company looks like over the next five years or so.
Maybe but that won't happen overnight. Competitive moats don't get closed quickly - and regardless of whatever intel she obtained, Nividia still has a HUGE moat.
CFO is so intertwined with the shipping and accounting of these chips to China. Kress will be taking the fall soon as well. This is so much deeper. Accounting fraud is quickly ratcheting up the list of investigations needed.
As interim they just needed someone and if it didn’t go to a C-suite exec more immediate questions would have been raised. All of the C-suite knew about this, I’d put money on the board even knowing, and they’ve all got comfortable with it because they were selling to Singapore.
Board had no real choice, they just need to get a new CEO in quickly and have them clean house.
I am consistently amazed at how many people can’t seem to understand that the cheating isn’t why he is in trouble.
He is in trouble for his shit tier judgement. For likely sellling both products, secrets, and services to a foreign agent. For treason, essentially. The knowingly and willingly kind; the type where you don’t get to say you didn’t know any better. And for using investment dollars to do so through multiple shells and subsidiaries.
The cheating is the most insignificant part of this; it’s the doorway to a series of decisions displaying open contempt for the law, for his own marriage, for his own nation, etc.
Amongst other things. The fact that a billionaire is facing any consequences at all is so foreign. I’m sure there is no SoP for this. They are probably trying to figure out how deeply they can look without implicating themselves
Except, the justice dept knew and if he'd been selling secrets or endangering the U.S he would have be caught and caught EARLY.
To imply they knew (and let him do it) means that it was a nothingburger. Google a certain chemical and the FBI is at your door, he had national clearance.
Would they care, though; we know people are on the Epstein files and have done nothing. People have so much faith in the justice department, and I have no idea why.
Because money. If Jensen had given any advantage to China the U.S. would've had an economic incentive to stop it. The same as the economic incentive for wars. This is an isolationist (and market first) administration.
But it isn’t? Not really anyway. We’ve floated billions to Argentina and Japan. And the administration knew, as you said, and likely used that knowledge to enrich themselves. Very easy to turn a blind eye when you can profit from it.
I am sure they knew he was selling to China; they were probably coaching him on how to bypass the regulations in the first place. Unless you believe in the integrity of Kash Patel, and Howard Lutnick, which lmao
If the decisionmakers owned NVIDIA stock, and they certainly do, that changes the math for them. It's people who make decisions, not "the United States" itself.
Edit to add: I don't actually think these export bans make any sense, but I'm not the one who makes the laws.
This wasn’t an accidental oversight. This was a calculated decision not to let the stock take a hit, likely while they profited on its meteoric rise. And the fact nothing will happen is just another indictment against the concept of justice in America.
When he goes under oath in front of Cognress Dems need to address what he knew, when he knew it, when the Trtump admin knew anything, and how they communicated and worked with him from that point.
Name the blackmail. Name the quid pro quo. Name the agents or officials that knew something, acted on that knowledge (or not), and everything else.
Jensen could sit down and say that his work with and support for Trump relied on covering up the crimes and treason. That his bribes were under duress or pressure.
That his leadership at Nvidia was compromised by the president and US government directly, and if any crimes are to be investigated that Trump and co need to be central as well.
It seems like the GOP are trying to separate themselves from Trump and the AI bubble which funded their campaigns and parties for the last few years. Now Dems will have oversight power and can act or lose their mandate.
It’s important to remember Reddit is also filled with foreign bots and no doubt the ones of Chinese persuasion will try to craft an Anti US and pro China narrative of this story.
It’s because it’s the redpilled bros who don’t think cheating is that big of a deal. Usually they tend to assume any work affairs are also solely on the women
Yes, and on top of that, and what I would rate even worse than leaking trade secrets, is the fact that he personally caused investors to lose $1,450 billion of their money.
You might get away with cheating, and you could maybe, just maybe get away with selling trade secrets to China, but you don't get to lose $1,450 billion of someone else's money. Jensen only owns a small fraction of Nvidia, so he is very much accountable to the shareholders.
> He was selling chips to gamers then got lucky with transformer architecture and ChatGPT. Right time, right place.
He had the foresight to open the architecture (CUDA) of his graphics cards to allow for general application of parallel computing outside of just for computer games before the market for such even existed.
Years before Bitcoin or AI was ever a thing, positing that turning their GPU's into a versatile all purpose computing chip and not just a computer graphics chip would be a good investment.
The resources Nvidia spent doing this at the time had no guarantee of a return.
That's not luck, that's vision.
He didn’t get lucky. He invested significantly and build the first AI hardware when the only customer was OpenAI in 2016. It was a massive gamble and the definition of vision.
And if OpenAI didn't work out, he would be a failure.
It was an impressive gamble, sure but very much right time, right place.
Regardless, he's now a failure and history will remember this moment the most as the popping of the AI bubble (even though it's a confluence of factors). Very Franz Ferdinand
He wasn't seduced into doing this for China, he was likely very aware of what she was doing with the Chips.
He was always against the chip restrictions, there's clip on clips of him saying he thinks it's stupid. He knew who she was and what she was doing.
He willing worked with her to circumvent the ban, abit of play on the side was probably just the cherry on top and to give himself deniability.
Like many rich people, he would sell his country men in a second. He doesn't give a shit about America. America only exists in his head as a tool for him to enrich himself.
Oh yeah. The rich do not give a fuck about you. It's my favourite thing about poor conservatives, the dumbest fucks in the world - they think the rich give a fuck lol
Hey I'd have no problem if he were fired for that, but there's no proof, just accusations. They're using the sex scandal as the scape goat to get rid of him without evidence.
Do you think this good for China or bad for China? You say bad because you claim Jensen was helping them get chips. I say good because Jensen was the leader of America's top AI company and we are at a loss without him.
That lawsuit is about is about whether Nvidia misled investors about revenue from cryptocurrency mining. She's also been dismissed from it. How is that relevant?
He violated trade laws for years, gave away foreign secrets all over some pussy.
Given the dem majority right now (whos Anti AI), I won't be surpassed if he is in some deep shit. They might even pursue criminal charges (even though I doubt he sees a jail cell).
Anyone thinking this is an overreaction needs to look more into the story. No one actually cares that he is unfaithful to his wife. He repeatedly broke the law over years and can face serious consequences, same with NVIDIA.
As I've been saying all week.. ITAR and EAR are a thing and for those of you that don't think AI chips are ITAR.. look up ITAR.. the components of those GPUs can be used in weapons systems, that makes it an ITAR regulated item. Moving it through a business that you know then gives it to a restricted 3rd party is a violation.
I used to work for Sun Microsystems. Every foreign sale had to be checked against the Denied Restricted Parties List and we had to consider risks of effectively “front companies” as well to prevent tech from getting into NK, Iran, etc…
I’m willing to bet my 4090 that the “regulation” is going to be restricting individual ownership of AI hardware capable of running frontier models and local use of AI models, which will ultimately benefit AI companies.
Not even that. Theres a small segment that currently (keyword) is against expansion into communities. Let’s be honest the majority are playing to sound bites. Unless they vote in real leadership change it’s business as usual until someone gets caught.
Dem politicians aren’t a monolith. The neoliberal centrist Dems are absolutely whores for capital but there’s a lot of more leftist Dems that actually work for the American people.
You’re right though that it remains to be seen which side comes out on top in the next few years
I explain this to my mom all the time. The centrist dems and there dumb goal of trying to “attract votes from the GOP” just moves them more and more to the right politically.
Again, democrats are not trying to stop AI. AI can grow, but it has to do it responsibly. That’s the role of the government, to put guardrails when chasing the money won’t yield the best results.
Yep. We are in an AI arms race with China and some of the Anti-AI Social Media Campaign originated from accounts in China. I'm glad Dems used it to win elections but now it's time to look in writing legislation that hinders foreign disinformation and foreign actors on US Social Media.
We lost the AI arms race before it even heated up, China has been structuring their economy and grid in preparation while the US has been trying to preserve the petrodollar and the only way they can even try to keep up is by selling out its people due to the poor preparation and planning
The primary concern is disruption to nearly all industries putting power in the hands of just a few companies, all with little to no oversight. Propaganda is unnecessary when the issue is mass unemployment.
Dems can call him in for questioning during a legislative session & charge with obstruction of congress if he refuses. If it’s public enough, the pressure to prosecute federally is going to be intense.
They definitely understand, but they're more interested in creating pressure than actually alleviating it.
Riling people up over culture war nonsense, yelling about imaginary communists, and abusing immigrants all create pressure. When the public pressures them to not do those things, because they either don't believe them, or know that the GOP has a marked history of being dead wrong about those issues, the GOP doubles down and insists that the public simply haven't seen how cool they think the policy / rhetoric is.
They would respond to public pressure if there was something in it for them; their problem, however, is that they want to define what the public feels pressure about, and that's not how it works. It's cart before horse.
No. It’s against US Export laws (both ITAR from tbr State Dept & EAR from Commerce Dept) to export the most advanced AI chips to certain countries, i.e. N Korea, Russia, China, Iran… as they can be used in weapons systems and reduce our tech advantage.
It's not about trade secrets, from my other comment. The company itself may have known about the operation.
>The reporting is pretty dumb, this has nothing to do with the affair. He may not even be sleeping with her. I wouldn't be surprised if the affair is the actual cover they were using to hide the smuggling operation. And Trump and the Republicans knew and also covered it up.
Anyone and I mean anyone including his kids expecting a pardon is going to be SOL. He’s not keeping tabs on the crimes and wouldn’t care even if he was.
You are making two basic assumptions, that Trump cares about anyone in any situations other than immediate transactional relationships, and he will see the end of his term.
Agree he's in deep shit. Only disagreement is that he didn't violate trade laws for pussy, it was just a bonus. He was very openly unhappy when NVIDIA was blocked from selling chips to China, and shortly after 22% of his companies sales went through Singapore. He wanted his company to keep hitting its numbers, and was willing to commit serious crimes to do it.
It's not even confirmed that Alice Huang is a Chinese spy and it's not confirmed that he gave away any secrets at all.
Apparently, his relationship with Alice Huang has been known in Washington for more than a year and his relationship with Kimberley Powell was also known to NVIDIA employees.
Jensen have been a huge proponent of opensource ai and fought to keep ai free from regulation written by Anthropic and OpenAI. To me, this looks like a huge hit job. He was against their control and policies and have been taken down via his weak points.
The reporting is pretty dumb, this has nothing to do with the affair. He may not even be sleeping with her. I wouldn't be surprised if the affair is the actual cover they were using to hide the smuggling operation. And Trump and the Republicans knew and also covered it up.
> He violated trade laws for years, gave away foreign secrets all over some pussy.
I am excited to see what he puts forward as duress/blackmail/extortion from the Trump admin. The FBI and more knew about this years ago, what bribes or more changed hands along the way? How did that support bolster sales and the AI bubble, propping Nvidia up to the current valuations? How did this benefit other donors or those working with the Trump admin? Were any national security decisions made around Jensen or this dirt? Why did Trump and co turn a blind eye and support China after campaigning on MAGA (we know that one, frauds of a feather).
I mean he definitely has a non-compete and he’s a shitty human.
But he is a brilliant scientist and engineer with many years left of potential contributions to make as a leader in chips. Once that non-compete is over it behooves another company to either hire him or put him on their board of directors.
This will be a blip on the AI/compute buildout I think. NVIDIA’s stock will take a hit, but it will trigger a market correction at most, not a crash.
I also highly doubt he’ll get nailed for treason. Again, he’s far too valuable to this country as a scientist/engineer executive in chips, which is effectively a global arms race. His opinions on foreign countries will never be taken seriously again, and I’m sure our country will relentlessly monitor his every move for near eternity. But he will be allowed to work.
Edit: downvote me all you want, but these corps don’t have morals, and the market isn’t going to give up on AI because of one CEO’s infidelity and bypassing export restrictions. And our government isn’t going to kneecap itself during an arms race by preventing one of it’s major players from being able to make continued progress.
Unfortunately, C.R.E.A.M (cash rules everything around ~~me~~ us)
I think Jensen's get out of jail card is how heavily he can connect his own actions to Trump and his admin. If they knew and let him continue it's a massive scandal with Dems ready to invetigate and push the heat on Trump.
If the GOP can get ahead on this and keep the heat on Jensen and his affairs like some reality show then it could work for them.
I think this is just a CYA move from Rubio to keep him away from a scandal he was appropriately scared of due to his own career ambitions in higher office. It’s rather shrewd on his part. Don’t upset your vengeful boss to protect your role as Secretary of State while providing secret cover evidence you can use forever when the time is right to show that you did escalate things to the highest level and it wasn’t heeded by those above you and around you.
JJWhitaker’s first point is a good one and what I think Jensen will be maneuvering to do in his closed doors hearing: Tie his actions to Trump and the highest levels of the admin, with an incoming Dem legislature primed to receive that information and act on it for political gains while letting Jensen (temporarily) fade into the background with symbolic “punishment.”
Trump needs to keep the heat off him. Putting the DOJ on Jensen and leveraging social media/conservative news to pretend they are holding him accountable (and covering their own failures) could work.
I find that many engineers and scientists can be extremely smart in their respective disciplines but terrible at business decision-making and knowing how to play the game in corporate. The overlap to excel at both is more unique.
Source: I’m a Physician & Biotech Chief Medical Officer
Ok yes I also work with scientists and I am an engineer. There are plenty who are good at both. Sure they are more rare but not that rare. I worked with many entrepreneurs as well. A lot have engineering degrees.
The Spie connection really is a big problem. He was clearly willing to sell out everything for some strange on the side. He should probably be facing a possible criminal investigation for his circumvention of sanctions. NVIDIA definitely wants to distance themselves from any investigation.
From the outside it seems like the guy was not up to the task when his company found itself not at the heart of a dynamic digital rollout, but at the nexus of perhaps the biggest geostrategic stakes of this century.
I was aghast by his performance with Erza Klein, which is a fair interviewer and not a particularly bright mind and staggering intellectual. And more or less his cavalier attitude over the past two years, including in the circular financing deal that he underwrote with the vast part of his own customers.
You are here looking at one of the best possible illustrations that success in one industry, at one particular point in time, does not equal universal and everlasting genius. Once again, one of the self-proclamied or self-behvaing tech-masters of the world reveals itself to be, at the end of the day, quite dumb.
From that Ezra Klein interview some of his takes were bafflingly stupid, like (paraphrased):
“Maybe it’s fine that kids won’t have to learn their times tables anymore, they can learn to be systems thinkers instead,” and “no 100 million or billion dollar company would ever release a product that is harmful to society, because they would be sued,” and “maybe it’s less important to learn certain things these days, like I don’t know my own address!,” and “risks from AI are no different from any previous technology, it’s all just software and we know how to fix engineering problems.”
I’m sure he’s a smart guy in some realms, but not smart enough to come up with lies that don’t make him sound like a moron. If nothing else, he’s a very dedicated salesman.
his ouster is probably bad for the consumer GPU market given the company’s roots, but if dude can’t be loyal to his wife I’d be a fucking rube to think he’d be loyal to “gamers” lol
Nothing will happen to this dude, he's got Trump who's going to pardon him. The AI bubble on the other hand might be burst now and cause massive damage to the economy. Could be a wild ride. I have not been paying attention to any news, so this came out of nowhere for me and I do question the timing given the political upheaval that just happened here.
You don’t think the economy is already damaged? How about a massive correction. By massive damage, you just mean wealthy people will be less wealthy. And risky day traders.
Selling high end GPUs to China is illegal. That will be thoroughly investigated.
In the short term Nvidia will probably have to stop shipping anything but the low end stuff to China. None of the execs will want to end up in jail for a few GPUs.
This is a failure of reporting being so focused on the cheating.
He was potentially using the alleged spy’s company as an indirect way to sell chips to China, because he wasn’t supposed to sell chips to China due to the export ban.
It is a federal crime and a felony if JH is found to have known to have sold chips through a “chinese spy” and made its way into China. US has export controls on this: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48642
A violation of export control can be a federal felony and is policed by the US Secretary of Commerce. If found guilty, JH will likely be charged and Nvidia may pay a hefty fine (unlikely if Trump is in office).
Kind of weird how this all came out after midterms when it was known JH had a close relationship with another SE Asian company executive.
Nothing will likely happen and a preemptive pardon will go out.
But this is a felony crime. Sexual relationships, to your point, are not.
What exactly would you expect for him to suffer for infidelity? What would he be charged with? Also watch as the market eats this up as a buying opportunity nothing fundamentally has change with nvda. If you don’t own it you should be buying it.
Edit: oh look the stock price is now above his resignation announcement.
The amount of brain dead people who think this is about infidelity is baffling. If you’re not paying attention to the actual news about this why are you bothering commenting at all.
Lol, the best they seem to have is allegations of misleading shareholders and failing to disclose national security risks. Neither fundamentally changes NVIDIA’s underlying value, and removing him doesn’t either. So again, what exactly are they going to charge him with?
Because OP was talking about impact to markets. Also lol yeah I’m sure they will charge him with securities fraud right after the get musk charged for lying to shareholders for the last decade. Get real.
First off, those allegations against NVIDIA have come from shareholders, not from any established factual findings. Allegations alone are not evidence of wrongdoing. You’re saying that he could be charged with these things with nothing to back up the actual allegations you’re coming from. That’s ontop of the fact that it would be very hard for them to charge him with either of those unless he was facilitating it which seems incredibly unlikely.
The feds are investigating. So yeah there are only allegations at the moment but those allegations can become something more concrete. To dismiss them out of hand before any investigation has concluded is premature. And notice I said could because those allegations can lead to charges if substantiated.
It doesn’t really matter what they charge him with, it’s matters if there are investigations into Nvidia’s business practices and if customers decide to continue working with Nvidia long term. More importantly, it matters that in response to this there is a non trivial chance Nvidia will have to derisk by not selling chips to companies they suspect are smuggling chips into China without a CEO who is on good terms with Trump.
Okay, let’s play out your scenario. NVIDIA gets investigated, and companies start reconsidering whether to do business with them. Who exactly are they going to switch to? Who can supply anything remotely comparable at the scale NVIDIA operates?
NVIDIA has already struggled to meet demand. Do you genuinely believe that even in your worst case scenario, every major customer suddenly stops buying, while the countless other companies waiting for access to NVIDIA’s chips just decide they don’t want them either?
You’re assuming an investigation somehow eliminates demand for products that the market already can’t get enough of.
He should be investigated for serious crimes. It's very likely the infidelity is just a part of him circumventing the ban on selling his chips to China which is an actual crime. Nobody who's been paying attention cares about the infidelity that shit is pedestrian.
OK, so you pretty much just made all of that up based on what, exactly? There have been no public allegations that Jensen Huang personally facilitated moving chips into China or knowingly violated export controls. What has actually been reported is that he had a relationship with a woman suspected of working for Chinese intelligence, whose company is under investigation for allegedly diverting restricted Nvidia chips to China.
lol have never owned nvidia but keep telling yourself whatever story you need. The fact remains that this hasn’t changed anything about nvidia or the ai trade.
China is super happy about this. They just need to get their sexy women to sleep with our leaders, that’s all it takes and we will fire them. No secrets needed. China wins.
There is also the liability of the other affair with a direct report.
As a "bonus", he's the face of the company; shifting that might be good PR optics if/when Nvidia shifts back from AI chip focus to the consumer market (which is the obvious play if the AI bubble bursts).
Infidelity with a foreign spy is a very serious transgression in this case. Also, a sexual relationship with a direct report is grounds for termination in any company. No exceptions for famous CEOs.
I think good judgment was always a standard of leadership and this guy clearly does not have it. Sleeping with a foreign spy and a direct report? Come on now. One might be a tragic mistake; two demonstrates terrible judgment.
Yeah no, no one actually cares about the infidelity.
You need to look more into the story. Jensen violated trade laws for years. Gave away secrets to our biggest foreign adversary. All over some pussy from a Chinese spy.
Jensen can get in serious trouble over this. The government can crack down hard on NVIDIA and Jensen, especially given the dem majority right now that is anti AI.
Jensen did nothing wrong. CEO's have affairs all the time. 10's of thousands of chinese nationals are working at big tech companies in trusted positions. Are they all "spies" ? The powers that be want to make straight relationships seem abnormal and shameful while promoting LGBT.
[OP] TorukMaktoM | 9 hours ago
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is stepping down as CEO of the chipmaker he co-founded 33 years ago and built into a $4 trillion company that powered the artificial intelligence boom.
After a meteoric rise to fame due to Nvidia’s central role in AI, Huang’s dramatic fall has been even more rapid, following a series of stinging revelations about his romantic ties to a woman believed by the U.S. intelligence community to be a Chinese spy.
RealityLopsided7366 | 9 hours ago
>he co-founded 33 years ago and built into a $4 trillion company that powered the artificial intelligence boom.
Imagine letting all of that crumble for some lady cake. C'mon, man.
Trololorawr | 8 hours ago
His poor fucking wife was instrumental to building this company, even pawning her own wedding ring to help finance the company in its fledgling years.
As a middle age wife to a successful entrepreneur, this is literally my worst fear. I met him over a decade ago when he had less than $1k to his name and I supported him (financially and otherwise) throughout our early years until his company actually became something that contributed to our bills. It terrifies me to think there is a real possibility that I could invest the majority of my life, my best youthful decades, to a man who ultimately would not hesitate to trade me in for a younger model after I’ve been his ride or die bitch for decades, and made so many personal sacrifices to help him to build a personal empire… while I don’t think my partner would do that, this is a tale as old as time, and it be silly for me to assume that our relationship is an exception. Excess money and power fucks with people’s moral code. Opportunity begets betrayal.
So after decades of loyalty and playing a critical role in building his company, and raising his children , this fucker has the audacity to repay his wife by publicly humiliating her like this? Meanwhile, the online apes criticize this 65 y/o woman’s appearance and turn this whole situation into a joke. wtf did she do to deserve this treatment of her?
I digress. His poor fucking wife. What a nightmare. I feel terrible for her.
peewee666 | 8 hours ago
On the bright side they don't have a prenup so she'll walk away with tens of billions of dollars.
gimpwiz | 5 hours ago
Not a lawyer but pretty sure a prenup wouldn't matter in CA for this anyways. If they married when he was a nobody with no assets, their finances and wealth are community property, 50/50, with some exceptions for things like inheritance.
The_Demolition_Man | 3 hours ago
Even billions of dollars won't totally take the sting out of your spouse betraying and publicly humiliating you though. Jensen is a real POS.
TimSylvester_ | 5 hours ago
> As a middle age wife to a successful entrepreneur, this is literally my worst fear.
I was with someone from my late 20s to my mid 30s only to find out she cheated on me. Even then I was like, "What in the actual fuck am I supposed to do now!?"
Every method I knew for meeting women & developing relationships was centered on things that are only available to young people.
Trololorawr | 5 hours ago
Now imagine being with someone your entire adult life, and only learning that they were an unfaithful scumbag in your mid-sixties…
I don’t know how someone recovers from that. While I’m sure the money helps, this is a woman who initially chose to marry an unwealthy man simply because she loved him. As such, I’m sure the significant divorce settlement would be an unsatisfactory consolation prize considering that she was never in this marriage for the money in the first place….
per54 | 8 hours ago
While I want to feel bad for her… they’re not like us normal people. They’re billionaires.
So I kind of don’t feel as bad as I know she will have billions….
Trololorawr | 8 hours ago
They weren’t always billionaires though… like she chose to love him and fully supported his dreams even when he/they were poor. She was with him before this company (and all its financial success) was even a twinkle in his eye. I think that should mean something, but for the vast majority of wildly successful men, it doesn’t appear to mean much of anything… there is ample evidence that, upon finding financial success, men are inclined to trade their faithful wives in for younger models… I think that’s sad.
She was with him from the beginning because, unlike his future partners, she truly loved him; she was never with him for his money… so I’m sure she’d happily trade all that money for a faithful partner who loved her, just as she did him. I know I would.
per54 | 8 hours ago
I get it. It sucks what happened to her. But she’s a billionaire now. Thus I don’t really feel bad for her. She will be fine. She has her kids, her family, and I don’t think she’s the one humiliated (he is). She didn’t do anything shameful. She’s the next bezo’s wife (forgot her name). She can take true billions and so good for the world
Constant-Plant-9378 | 6 hours ago
There is a saying, "If she doesn't want him when he's poor, he won't want her when he's rich."
Faithless degenerates like Jensen Huang, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates have no moral integrity. They are selfish scum led around by their dicks. The women they've betrayed deserved better.
huehuehuehuehuuuu | 7 hours ago
She should have pulled out when he started to get lost in the sauce. He wasn’t the only Nvidia founder. The other ones quit while they were ahead, after realizing they now have more than enough money for the entire family to be set for life.
Meanwhile his side piece has been flaunting her grip on the man for years on social media, and the photo of him signing a female fan’s boobs has long been public.
Constant-Plant-9378 | 6 hours ago
> She should have pulled out when he started to get lost in the sauce.
His vain cosplaying in the leather jacket everywhere has been so cringe-inducing. It is completely predictable that he would get caught by the dick in a corporate espionage scandal. What a dipshit.
ginsunuva | 6 hours ago
He started the leather jacket thing at least 15 years ago
Constant-Plant-9378 | 6 hours ago
All I can say is at his present age it is pure cringe. "Hello fellow kids"
SUMBWEDY | 6 hours ago
Jensen (and his wife) are actually a rags to riches billionaires though, we should support people who pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Not like Bezos who worked in a hedge fund and had his family give him millions to start his company or Gates who's parents were already incredibly wealthy and worked at IBM to get software deals done.
Jensen started working at denny's and the company was founded with just $40k.
per54 | 5 hours ago
Yeah he is a great story. I don’t deny it. But I also don’t feel bad for them either.
AmazonPuncher | 8 hours ago
Some of you people have such a bizarre world view. They are exactly like you "normal people". I dont know what is up with this brain dead reddit belief that once your networth crosses a billion dollars, you are forever changed and no longer a normal person. Once you're rich enough that money no longer matters, it makes no difference if you're a few hundred millionaire or a billionaire. A person who started a failure of a business vs someone who started an Nvidia is still the same person. The fact one was more successful doesnt inherently change anything.
per54 | 8 hours ago
It does. That level buys power that normal people cannot have.
I’m poor too in comparison (only 8 figure net worth). It’s a different world when I hang out with my 9 figure friends. Cannot imagine even the 10 figure ones.
People in power are not ‘normal’ people . And if you don’t get it, well you just don’t
And people in power who don’t have that much money are also not normal people. Those who can influence the lives of millions, you want to tell me they’re normal people? lol
No. They aren’t
AmazonPuncher | 6 hours ago
> I’m poor too in comparison (only 8 figure net worth). It’s a different world when I hang out with my 9 figure friends. Cannot imagine even the 10 figure ones.
You are such an idiot lmao
per54 | 5 hours ago
We can agree to disagree. I can see you like to chase intelligence being in this sub but it keeps running away from you considering you like to name-call 🤣
The_Demolition_Man | 3 hours ago
Yeah, Lori Huang lost her family and the life she thought she had. Thats a hole that money cant fill. Youre totally right.
Baxter9009 | 8 hours ago
This escalated pretty quick.
prefinality | 6 hours ago
Oh yes, the poor billionaire. She’s got a tough life
Constant-Plant-9378 | 6 hours ago
Just line him up next to his fellow cretins Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
They are all faithless degenerates with zero moral integrity.
TheTimberFactory | 8 hours ago
LOL was this written by ChatGPT?
Heck, even the username is suspect lmao.
Caracalla81 | 7 hours ago
I don't see any AI cliches in there.
TrisolaranPrinceps- | 4 hours ago
Lolz crash out
TF-Fanfic-Resident | 8 hours ago
Possibly the most expensive adultery case in history.
Alphadestrious | 8 hours ago
As a massive Nvidia share holder (bought it in 2019) this move by Huang cost me and many others a good amount of my portfolio. I'm down bigly and pretty annoyed at this entire situation. Sucks man.
After the first allegation broke that it was a Chinese spy I knew he was cooked while many others were joking . It's all jokes but it's very serious too.
per54 | 8 hours ago
If you bought in 2019 you’re still way up.
Caracalla81 | 6 hours ago
Yeah, dude's fine. Jensen made him a ton of money.
NSRedditShitposter | 5 hours ago
It’s always funny to me when online commentators say they are shareholders in massive publicly traded companies to add credibility to their claims.
Mysterious_Umpire684 | 4 hours ago
If you have a 401k or if you invest in any major ETF, you're an Nvidia shareholder too.
dust4ngel | 2 hours ago
just when taking on idiosyncratic risk seems like the move
Constant-Plant-9378 | 6 hours ago
It is a small blip that will be reversed through buying from bargain hunters. Fundamentals have not changed due to Jensen Huang's idiotic behavior.
It will be the overbuying of chips by AI corps piling them up in warehouses because they don't have sufficient power - all fueled by circular financing that will eventually pop and drive a collapse.
MTS122917 | an hour ago
> Fundamentals have not changed due to Jensen Huang's idiotic behavior.
Short term, yes, but holding long term comes with a lot of question marks. There was a lot of reporting around the fact that he had not been mentoring a successor when this news broke so it's hard to know what the company looks like over the next five years or so.
Kershiser22 | 6 hours ago
> It is a small blip that will be reversed through buying from bargain hunters. Fundamentals have not changed due to Jensen Huang's idiotic behavior.
I guess the concern might be that the spy actually gained company secrets from him and China might start eating in to Nvidia's business?
Constant-Plant-9378 | 5 hours ago
Maybe but that won't happen overnight. Competitive moats don't get closed quickly - and regardless of whatever intel she obtained, Nividia still has a HUGE moat.
teacher_59 | 9 hours ago
It wasn't for a lady. It was for his fetish.
walkingthecowww | 9 hours ago
His fetish for treason?
teacher_59 | 9 hours ago
Huh? Asian women.
aktivate74 | 9 hours ago
In case you didn't notice, he's Asian.
teacher_59 | 8 hours ago
And? Still weird to go after that when he has the money and power to pursue someone beautiful.
BroughtBagLunchSmart | 8 hours ago
I thought you white supremacists considered Asian people to be white?
PalmOil5678 | 9 hours ago
doesn't explain him shitting where he eats with the brunette VP, ego just got to his head simple as that. pride cometh before the fall
teacher_59 | 7 hours ago
She's beautiful and smart so that one makes sense.
BostonConnor11 | 8 hours ago
This is some dumb shit lol. The other woman he had an affair with was literally a white woman but ok
teacher_59 | 7 hours ago
A beautiful and smart one. Completely different.
Aro00oo | 9 hours ago
This guy fetishes
ezabland | 9 hours ago
CFO is so intertwined with the shipping and accounting of these chips to China. Kress will be taking the fall soon as well. This is so much deeper. Accounting fraud is quickly ratcheting up the list of investigations needed.
alabasterskim | 9 hours ago
Next week: everyone at Nvidia fired except for some line level worker named Ted, named new CEO.
LookOutItsLiuBei | 9 hours ago
The new season of Ted Lasso where he takes over a flailing nVidia and turns it into an ethical tech company
voxadam | 8 hours ago
BELIEVE
LookOutItsLiuBei | 8 hours ago
Mm.
You know, Lisa [Su], guys have underestimated me my entire life.
And for years, I never understood why.
It used to really bother me.
But then one day, I was driving my little boy to school and I saw this quote by Walt Whitman and it was painted on the wall there.
It said, “Be curious, not judgmental”.
I like that.
So I get back in my car and I’m driving to work, and all of a sudden it hits me.
All them fellas that used to belittle me, not a single one of them were curious.
You know, they thought they had everything all figured out.
So they judged everything, and they judged everyone.
And I realized that they were underestimating me...who I was had nothing to do with it.
‘Cause if they were curious, they would’ve asked questions.
You know?
Questions like, “Have you played a lot of mahjong, Ted?”
To which I would’ve answered, “Yes, sir.
Every Sunday afternoon at a dim sum restaurant with my father, from age ten till I was 16, when he passed away”.
Hoisin sauce.
donkeydougreturns | 6 hours ago
Your Emmy, sir.
jjwhitaker | 3 hours ago
The speech is almost a copypasta today but it's still a good scene. Rupert's actor killed the hated ex role.
Least-Blackberry-848 | 8 hours ago
I would 1000% binge this
hypnosiscounselor | 8 hours ago
Im going to need you to start that script.
LookOutItsLiuBei | 8 hours ago
It would be fitting if I had an LLM write it lol
Or even better, written by a Chinese open model running on smuggled nVidia chips
lonestar-rasbryjamco | 8 hours ago
Written by: Writing Unit 5, Writing Unit 12, and Joe Eszterhas
Directed by: Directing Unit 4
Original Characters by: Original Character Unit 17
jjwhitaker | 3 hours ago
Ted Lasso x Silicon Valley, but shot in Boise (actually Spokane for tax seasons)?
The board wants to kill the consumer side but Ted fights for that market while getting the best from his staff at every level?
massenburger | 7 hours ago
Big A about to make a comeback and right this ship
thesmash | 9 hours ago
Zero possibility Kress also wasn’t aware of all the proxy stuff that was happening. Seems strange they’re taking over honestly.
fatbob42 | 7 hours ago
The CFO often takes over temporarily in these situations.
waitmarks | 9 hours ago
Yeah, I really don't know how you would help a smuggling operation without your accountant knowing what was going on.
jyeatbvg | 9 hours ago
Surely the board would’ve thought this through before appointing her Jensen’s replacement?
ezabland | 8 hours ago
As interim they just needed someone and if it didn’t go to a C-suite exec more immediate questions would have been raised. All of the C-suite knew about this, I’d put money on the board even knowing, and they’ve all got comfortable with it because they were selling to Singapore.
Board had no real choice, they just need to get a new CEO in quickly and have them clean house.
Liizam | 7 hours ago
I wonder if bubble is about to pop and they want to blame someone. Seems like easy target if they literally sold banned product to China
nathism | 5 hours ago
So they will get elected president soon?
CyberSmith31337 | 6 hours ago
I am consistently amazed at how many people can’t seem to understand that the cheating isn’t why he is in trouble.
He is in trouble for his shit tier judgement. For likely sellling both products, secrets, and services to a foreign agent. For treason, essentially. The knowingly and willingly kind; the type where you don’t get to say you didn’t know any better. And for using investment dollars to do so through multiple shells and subsidiaries.
The cheating is the most insignificant part of this; it’s the doorway to a series of decisions displaying open contempt for the law, for his own marriage, for his own nation, etc.
ginsunuva | 6 hours ago
Treason isn’t the term: it’s export ban violation
CyberSmith31337 | 6 hours ago
Amongst other things. The fact that a billionaire is facing any consequences at all is so foreign. I’m sure there is no SoP for this. They are probably trying to figure out how deeply they can look without implicating themselves
BackgroundArtist9883 | 6 hours ago
Except, the justice dept knew and if he'd been selling secrets or endangering the U.S he would have be caught and caught EARLY.
To imply they knew (and let him do it) means that it was a nothingburger. Google a certain chemical and the FBI is at your door, he had national clearance.
CyberSmith31337 | 6 hours ago
Would they care, though; we know people are on the Epstein files and have done nothing. People have so much faith in the justice department, and I have no idea why.
BackgroundArtist9883 | 6 hours ago
Because money. If Jensen had given any advantage to China the U.S. would've had an economic incentive to stop it. The same as the economic incentive for wars. This is an isolationist (and market first) administration.
CyberSmith31337 | 6 hours ago
But it isn’t? Not really anyway. We’ve floated billions to Argentina and Japan. And the administration knew, as you said, and likely used that knowledge to enrich themselves. Very easy to turn a blind eye when you can profit from it.
I am sure they knew he was selling to China; they were probably coaching him on how to bypass the regulations in the first place. Unless you believe in the integrity of Kash Patel, and Howard Lutnick, which lmao
BackgroundArtist9883 | 5 hours ago
I think you're arguing with someone else. I believe this is a nothing burger but beyond that, why is smuggling chips considered high crimes?
Geniunely curious on your moral perspective? Its treason if the government allows it?
biting-the-bullet | 5 hours ago
If the decisionmakers owned NVIDIA stock, and they certainly do, that changes the math for them. It's people who make decisions, not "the United States" itself.
Edit to add: I don't actually think these export bans make any sense, but I'm not the one who makes the laws.
CyberSmith31337 | 4 hours ago
That’s my stance on it.
This wasn’t an accidental oversight. This was a calculated decision not to let the stock take a hit, likely while they profited on its meteoric rise. And the fact nothing will happen is just another indictment against the concept of justice in America.
jjwhitaker | 3 hours ago
When he goes under oath in front of Cognress Dems need to address what he knew, when he knew it, when the Trtump admin knew anything, and how they communicated and worked with him from that point.
Name the blackmail. Name the quid pro quo. Name the agents or officials that knew something, acted on that knowledge (or not), and everything else.
Jensen could sit down and say that his work with and support for Trump relied on covering up the crimes and treason. That his bribes were under duress or pressure.
That his leadership at Nvidia was compromised by the president and US government directly, and if any crimes are to be investigated that Trump and co need to be central as well.
It seems like the GOP are trying to separate themselves from Trump and the AI bubble which funded their campaigns and parties for the last few years. Now Dems will have oversight power and can act or lose their mandate.
L0ghe4d | an hour ago
Or it means that the current administration was somehow benefiting from it.
I can't think who, but it's like someone was insider trading based on it. 🤔
I don't think this is rocket science and it's a no-brainer why it's happening after the midterms.
EchoInternational856 | 5 hours ago
It’s important to remember Reddit is also filled with foreign bots and no doubt the ones of Chinese persuasion will try to craft an Anti US and pro China narrative of this story.
Material_Policy6327 | 3 hours ago
It’s because it’s the redpilled bros who don’t think cheating is that big of a deal. Usually they tend to assume any work affairs are also solely on the women
simouable | 2 hours ago
Yes, and on top of that, and what I would rate even worse than leaking trade secrets, is the fact that he personally caused investors to lose $1,450 billion of their money.
You might get away with cheating, and you could maybe, just maybe get away with selling trade secrets to China, but you don't get to lose $1,450 billion of someone else's money. Jensen only owns a small fraction of Nvidia, so he is very much accountable to the shareholders.
snowrazer_ | 3 hours ago
Jensen is a visionary leader, the reason for Nvidia ‘s continued success, he foresaw the entire AI boom.
China just needed to get rid of him, no secrets needed. Just get him so smash that sexy spy, leak it, and get him fired. China won.
Ok-League-1106 | 3 hours ago
He was selling chips to gamers then got lucky with transformer architecture and ChatGPT.
Right time, right place.
defenestrate_urself | 57 minutes ago
> He was selling chips to gamers then got lucky with transformer architecture and ChatGPT. Right time, right place.
He had the foresight to open the architecture (CUDA) of his graphics cards to allow for general application of parallel computing outside of just for computer games before the market for such even existed.
Years before Bitcoin or AI was ever a thing, positing that turning their GPU's into a versatile all purpose computing chip and not just a computer graphics chip would be a good investment.
The resources Nvidia spent doing this at the time had no guarantee of a return. That's not luck, that's vision.
snowrazer_ | 3 hours ago
He didn’t get lucky. He invested significantly and build the first AI hardware when the only customer was OpenAI in 2016. It was a massive gamble and the definition of vision.
Ok-League-1106 | 2 hours ago
And if OpenAI didn't work out, he would be a failure.
It was an impressive gamble, sure but very much right time, right place.
Regardless, he's now a failure and history will remember this moment the most as the popping of the AI bubble (even though it's a confluence of factors). Very Franz Ferdinand
snowrazer_ | an hour ago
History will remember China taking down an American AI leader with a successful honeypot operation. Maybe this is the point where China took the lead.
L0ghe4d | an hour ago
People are so naive on this.
He wasn't seduced into doing this for China, he was likely very aware of what she was doing with the Chips.
He was always against the chip restrictions, there's clip on clips of him saying he thinks it's stupid. He knew who she was and what she was doing.
He willing worked with her to circumvent the ban, abit of play on the side was probably just the cherry on top and to give himself deniability.
Like many rich people, he would sell his country men in a second. He doesn't give a shit about America. America only exists in his head as a tool for him to enrich himself.
Ok-League-1106 | 52 minutes ago
Oh yeah. The rich do not give a fuck about you. It's my favourite thing about poor conservatives, the dumbest fucks in the world - they think the rich give a fuck lol
snowrazer_ | 48 minutes ago
Hey I'd have no problem if he were fired for that, but there's no proof, just accusations. They're using the sex scandal as the scape goat to get rid of him without evidence.
Do you think this good for China or bad for China? You say bad because you claim Jensen was helping them get chips. I say good because Jensen was the leader of America's top AI company and we are at a loss without him.
L0ghe4d | 40 minutes ago
I'd argue that Jensen stopped being Nvidia a long time ago.
He was once the linchpin, but I think Nvidia moved past him a long time ago.
Alot of his recent interviews and podcast made him seem out of touch. I don't even think he was that much of a good CEO by the end of it.
There was so many gaffs.
As the clear market leader, there will be a shit load of talent at Nvidia.
Ok-League-1106 | an hour ago
It seems like everyone at the top knew this was happening and turned a blind eye.
Another reason why the Trump admin will go down as the worst in modern history.
snowrazer_ | 49 minutes ago
Pretty sure the Harris administration would have outlawed data centers, broken up Nvidia and nationalized SpaceX by now.
Ok-League-1106 | 43 minutes ago
Which are all pretty popular political moves.
L0ghe4d | 38 minutes ago
Pretty sure the Trump admin was trading it.
Bookandaglassofwine | 4 hours ago
“Treason” is approaching “grifter” levels of overuse in current discourse.
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
So the person who covered up the transactions is the new person in charge?
Since this has been known since 2025 it seems like a lynching.
Now who would have the information and benefits from it?
Rhamnos | 9 hours ago
Who said Colette was involved?
sicklyslick | 6 hours ago
Chief FINANCIAL Officier has no idea how Nvidia routing shipment to dodge danctions?
She's either complicit or fully ignorant of the situation. Either stance, she's unqualified for the position.
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
Everyone.
Rhamnos | 9 hours ago
“My source is I made it the fuck up.”
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
Yep indeed, the ability to read is an essential art.
cc_rider2 | 8 hours ago
Where did you read that he was involved
Baron-Munc | 8 hours ago
Who’s he?
cc_rider2 | 5 hours ago
she*
Baron-Munc | 5 hours ago
2018 class action suit still in process.
cc_rider2 | 3 hours ago
That lawsuit is about is about whether Nvidia misled investors about revenue from cryptocurrency mining. She's also been dismissed from it. How is that relevant?
littlebaldboi | 9 hours ago
Dario
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
Nope
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
Ever seen what happens when you cut the leg off a three legged stool.
Special_Regret_6805 | 9 hours ago
Jensen is done.
He violated trade laws for years, gave away foreign secrets all over some pussy.
Given the dem majority right now (whos Anti AI), I won't be surpassed if he is in some deep shit. They might even pursue criminal charges (even though I doubt he sees a jail cell).
Anyone thinking this is an overreaction needs to look more into the story. No one actually cares that he is unfaithful to his wife. He repeatedly broke the law over years and can face serious consequences, same with NVIDIA.
Darkpriest667 | 9 hours ago
As I've been saying all week.. ITAR and EAR are a thing and for those of you that don't think AI chips are ITAR.. look up ITAR.. the components of those GPUs can be used in weapons systems, that makes it an ITAR regulated item. Moving it through a business that you know then gives it to a restricted 3rd party is a violation.
Marathon2021 | 9 hours ago
Can confirm.
I used to work for Sun Microsystems. Every foreign sale had to be checked against the Denied Restricted Parties List and we had to consider risks of effectively “front companies” as well to prevent tech from getting into NK, Iran, etc…
the_monkey_knows | 9 hours ago
I don’t think they’re anti-AI. They’re more against AI expansions into communities that affect the quality of life of people.
Momik | 8 hours ago
I wish they were anti-AI, but it seems like they’re more interested in slowing down and regulating (which is good)
Swoly_Deadlift | 11 minutes ago
I’m willing to bet my 4090 that the “regulation” is going to be restricting individual ownership of AI hardware capable of running frontier models and local use of AI models, which will ultimately benefit AI companies.
joepez | 8 hours ago
Not even that. Theres a small segment that currently (keyword) is against expansion into communities. Let’s be honest the majority are playing to sound bites. Unless they vote in real leadership change it’s business as usual until someone gets caught.
moonRekt | 9 hours ago
They aren’t anti-AI, they enjoy the votes received by pretending to be interested in protecting communities against reckless expansion.
Democrats won’t be stopping AI in January+, the only thing that can stop it is a complete contraction
UncleGreenwood | 9 hours ago
Dem politicians aren’t a monolith. The neoliberal centrist Dems are absolutely whores for capital but there’s a lot of more leftist Dems that actually work for the American people.
You’re right though that it remains to be seen which side comes out on top in the next few years
evantom34 | 9 hours ago
100%, this election was a prime example. There’s progressives and centrist dems, there is no one size fits all candidate.
Available_Card_6907 | 9 hours ago
Yup thats me, i vote Dem but im no leftist, same with the vast majority of my circle.
BlackGlenCoco | 9 hours ago
I explain this to my mom all the time. The centrist dems and there dumb goal of trying to “attract votes from the GOP” just moves them more and more to the right politically.
zeezle | 8 hours ago
Can you name a single specific policy they have advocated for that is more rightward than in the past?
Uncertain__Path | 7 hours ago
The Glass Steagal Act
whycarbon | 6 hours ago
voting for the laken riley act is the biggest and most recent
the_monkey_knows | 9 hours ago
Again, democrats are not trying to stop AI. AI can grow, but it has to do it responsibly. That’s the role of the government, to put guardrails when chasing the money won’t yield the best results.
GPSBach | 8 hours ago
Butlerian Jihad
NewToHTX | 9 hours ago
Yep. We are in an AI arms race with China and some of the Anti-AI Social Media Campaign originated from accounts in China. I'm glad Dems used it to win elections but now it's time to look in writing legislation that hinders foreign disinformation and foreign actors on US Social Media.
moonRekt | 8 hours ago
We lost the AI arms race before it even heated up, China has been structuring their economy and grid in preparation while the US has been trying to preserve the petrodollar and the only way they can even try to keep up is by selling out its people due to the poor preparation and planning
whycarbon | 6 hours ago
why do i care if china has better AI? their evil empire is administrated a lot more competently than ours
Special-Remove-3294 | 8 hours ago
They will not because they do not want to but they totally can lol.
They could pass laws against the immense resource wasting that data centers are doing but they probably won't
Particular-Way-8669 | 9 hours ago
Such as?
RegurgitatedMincer | 9 hours ago
Data centers?
Sryzon | 6 hours ago
The majority of Dems in Michigan are blatantly pro-AI, datacenters, and energy.
baldurFromRoom29 | 9 hours ago
No, they’re scared that once AGI is achieved and can actually “think,” their propaganda won’t work anymore. This will hit right-wingers too.
We’re chimps. Some people want the next generations to act more like bonobos, and that only works with constant propaganda. Real AGI kills that.
the_monkey_knows | 9 hours ago
🧃
ANormalRando | 9 hours ago
The primary concern is disruption to nearly all industries putting power in the hands of just a few companies, all with little to no oversight. Propaganda is unnecessary when the issue is mass unemployment.
TeaKingMac | 9 hours ago
Artifical intelligence STOPS propaganda?
XAMdG | 9 hours ago
... How does a Dem majority in the Legislature lead to criminal charges, that have to be filed by the Executive branch?
platydroid | 9 hours ago
Dems can call him in for questioning during a legislative session & charge with obstruction of congress if he refuses. If it’s public enough, the pressure to prosecute federally is going to be intense.
coke_and_coffee | 9 hours ago
This admin doesn’t care about public pressure. If they don’t want to prosecute, they won’t.
per54 | 8 hours ago
But if it’ll give them votes they may
coke_and_coffee | 8 hours ago
Judging by the results of the last election, that’s clearly not true.
per54 | 8 hours ago
I think they felt blindsided by it and really thought they had it in the bag
coke_and_coffee | 7 hours ago
But that’s my point. They don’t understand how to respond to public pressure.
DetoursDisguised | 4 hours ago
They definitely understand, but they're more interested in creating pressure than actually alleviating it.
Riling people up over culture war nonsense, yelling about imaginary communists, and abusing immigrants all create pressure. When the public pressures them to not do those things, because they either don't believe them, or know that the GOP has a marked history of being dead wrong about those issues, the GOP doubles down and insists that the public simply haven't seen how cool they think the policy / rhetoric is.
They would respond to public pressure if there was something in it for them; their problem, however, is that they want to define what the public feels pressure about, and that's not how it works. It's cart before horse.
klingma | 9 hours ago
Right, because senatorial inquiries and testifying before the House has done so much lately.
gimpwiz | 5 hours ago
> Dems can call him in for questioning during a legislative session & charge with obstruction of congress if he refuses.
I plead the 5th. I do not recall at this time. I plead the 5th. I do not recall at this time.
Leafybug13 | 9 hours ago
Happy Cake Day !
YeetedApple | 8 hours ago
They can pass what they find to states to charge at that level.
IM_KYLE_AMA | 7 hours ago
Congressional investigations can and do refer individuals to the DOJ or states for criminal charges.
VeryStab1eGenius | 9 hours ago
I haven’t kept up, there are credible allegations he gave up trade secrets?
thefluffyfigment | 8 hours ago
Not directly; however, he indirectly did by allowing illicit exports to China.
VeryStab1eGenius | 8 hours ago
I thought the import bans had been lifted by the government?
thefluffyfigment | 8 hours ago
No. It’s against US Export laws (both ITAR from tbr State Dept & EAR from Commerce Dept) to export the most advanced AI chips to certain countries, i.e. N Korea, Russia, China, Iran… as they can be used in weapons systems and reduce our tech advantage.
Eureka22 | 5 hours ago
It's not about trade secrets, from my other comment. The company itself may have known about the operation.
>The reporting is pretty dumb, this has nothing to do with the affair. He may not even be sleeping with her. I wouldn't be surprised if the affair is the actual cover they were using to hide the smuggling operation. And Trump and the Republicans knew and also covered it up.
exmachina64 | 9 hours ago
A Democratic majority in Congress can’t pursue criminal charges. The DoJ could, but look who controls that.
brandt-money | 9 hours ago
In 2 years they can.
MomsSpagetee | 9 hours ago
Two years is a lifetime in politics.
GameDoesntStop | 9 hours ago
And also not guaranteed.
YeetedApple | 8 hours ago
They can pass what they find to states if there is anything that can be charged at that level.
OddlyFactual1512 | 9 hours ago
He will receive an orange pardon.
CreativeEducation228 | 9 hours ago
Anyone and I mean anyone including his kids expecting a pardon is going to be SOL. He’s not keeping tabs on the crimes and wouldn’t care even if he was.
GameDoesntStop | 9 hours ago
Why would he need to keep track?
Biden already set a precedent of blanket pardons for future charges...
CreativeEducation228 | 8 hours ago
Have you actually read the pardons that Biden signed? They weren’t blanket pardons.
And you assume he cares about anyone. If you can’t give him something of value, he’s not signing a pardon.
GameDoesntStop | 8 hours ago
They were blanket pardons, apart from violent crimes.
Trump will do the same for his own family, no doubt.
CreativeEducation228 | 8 hours ago
You are making two basic assumptions, that Trump cares about anyone in any situations other than immediate transactional relationships, and he will see the end of his term.
I’d put money on neither of those being true.
GameDoesntStop | 8 hours ago
Sure man.
MarcooseOnTheLoose | 9 hours ago
Oh, yes! And I bet next he is going to post on social media he is going to repair his relationship with his wife and true love of his life.
im_a_sam | 6 hours ago
Agree he's in deep shit. Only disagreement is that he didn't violate trade laws for pussy, it was just a bonus. He was very openly unhappy when NVIDIA was blocked from selling chips to China, and shortly after 22% of his companies sales went through Singapore. He wanted his company to keep hitting its numbers, and was willing to commit serious crimes to do it.
Stationary_Wagon | 8 hours ago
It's not even confirmed that Alice Huang is a Chinese spy and it's not confirmed that he gave away any secrets at all.
Apparently, his relationship with Alice Huang has been known in Washington for more than a year and his relationship with Kimberley Powell was also known to NVIDIA employees.
Jensen have been a huge proponent of opensource ai and fought to keep ai free from regulation written by Anthropic and OpenAI. To me, this looks like a huge hit job. He was against their control and policies and have been taken down via his weak points.
Droggles | 9 hours ago
In the before times say 2008Ish. He would have definitely already been arrested and awaiting bail.
Violating those kinds of import controls are serious crimes. At least they used to be.
Meats10 | 9 hours ago
he has enough money to pay Trump admin, so he'll align with them to avoid prosecution or at least get a slap on the wrist.
CodingAficionado | 8 hours ago
CUDA avoided the whole thing but he was thinking with his Huang
5endnewts | 5 hours ago
You think Huang gave away trade secrets with some pillow talk?
Eureka22 | 5 hours ago
The reporting is pretty dumb, this has nothing to do with the affair. He may not even be sleeping with her. I wouldn't be surprised if the affair is the actual cover they were using to hide the smuggling operation. And Trump and the Republicans knew and also covered it up.
jjwhitaker | 3 hours ago
> He violated trade laws for years, gave away foreign secrets all over some pussy.
I am excited to see what he puts forward as duress/blackmail/extortion from the Trump admin. The FBI and more knew about this years ago, what bribes or more changed hands along the way? How did that support bolster sales and the AI bubble, propping Nvidia up to the current valuations? How did this benefit other donors or those working with the Trump admin? Were any national security decisions made around Jensen or this dirt? Why did Trump and co turn a blind eye and support China after campaigning on MAGA (we know that one, frauds of a feather).
Groovychick1978 | 8 hours ago
Did you do it?
Yes.
What did it cost?
Everything...
All he had to do was keep his dick in his pants. Honeypotted by a Chinese spy, and then just good old fashioned lust for his goddamn direct report.
It would be funny if it wasn't so very, very pathetic.
Methodical_Science | 9 hours ago
I mean he definitely has a non-compete and he’s a shitty human.
But he is a brilliant scientist and engineer with many years left of potential contributions to make as a leader in chips. Once that non-compete is over it behooves another company to either hire him or put him on their board of directors.
This will be a blip on the AI/compute buildout I think. NVIDIA’s stock will take a hit, but it will trigger a market correction at most, not a crash.
I also highly doubt he’ll get nailed for treason. Again, he’s far too valuable to this country as a scientist/engineer executive in chips, which is effectively a global arms race. His opinions on foreign countries will never be taken seriously again, and I’m sure our country will relentlessly monitor his every move for near eternity. But he will be allowed to work.
Edit: downvote me all you want, but these corps don’t have morals, and the market isn’t going to give up on AI because of one CEO’s infidelity and bypassing export restrictions. And our government isn’t going to kneecap itself during an arms race by preventing one of it’s major players from being able to make continued progress.
Unfortunately, C.R.E.A.M (cash rules everything around ~~me~~ us)
IDoomDI | 9 hours ago
Unless he's criminally prosecuted for treason
symp_path | 3 hours ago
that’s not the legal definition of treason
artisanrox | 9 hours ago
he is NEVER going to get prosecuted for anything
IDoomDI | 4 hours ago
I respect your opinion, it may be true. But it's increasingly likely he broke the embargo, the government knew but Trump & Lutnick blocked everything.
jjwhitaker | 3 hours ago
I think Jensen's get out of jail card is how heavily he can connect his own actions to Trump and his admin. If they knew and let him continue it's a massive scandal with Dems ready to invetigate and push the heat on Trump.
If the GOP can get ahead on this and keep the heat on Jensen and his affairs like some reality show then it could work for them.
IDoomDI | 3 hours ago
I would disagree, because even the GOP is not on the same page here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/rubio-nvidia-ceo-chinese-spy.html
Methodical_Science | 2 hours ago
I think this is just a CYA move from Rubio to keep him away from a scandal he was appropriately scared of due to his own career ambitions in higher office. It’s rather shrewd on his part. Don’t upset your vengeful boss to protect your role as Secretary of State while providing secret cover evidence you can use forever when the time is right to show that you did escalate things to the highest level and it wasn’t heeded by those above you and around you.
JJWhitaker’s first point is a good one and what I think Jensen will be maneuvering to do in his closed doors hearing: Tie his actions to Trump and the highest levels of the admin, with an incoming Dem legislature primed to receive that information and act on it for political gains while letting Jensen (temporarily) fade into the background with symbolic “punishment.”
jjwhitaker | 3 hours ago
Trump needs to keep the heat off him. Putting the DOJ on Jensen and leveraging social media/conservative news to pretend they are holding him accountable (and covering their own failures) could work.
DaSilence | 6 hours ago
> Unless he's criminally prosecuted for treason
Tell me you don't know anything about our legal system without telling me.
IDoomDI | 4 hours ago
Why? He broke the embargo, he must've known about the sale of chips to China.
DaSilence | 2 hours ago
There is literally one crime defined in the Constitution:
Treason
The last time someone in the United States was successfully prosecuted for treason was 1952.
Absolutely no one, including but not limited to the DoJ, has alleged that he was involved in the ITAR-controlled GPUs that made it to China.
They haven't even alleged that he was aware of it.
Treason is a capital crime. It requires giving aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States.
Even if he had personally packed up 10,000 GPUs and put them on his plane and flew them to China himself, he wouldn't be guilty of it.
Liizam | 7 hours ago
I mean he literally exported chips in an arms race. He is also not as vital as you think. Plenty of smart engineers could take over the job
Methodical_Science | 7 hours ago
I find that many engineers and scientists can be extremely smart in their respective disciplines but terrible at business decision-making and knowing how to play the game in corporate. The overlap to excel at both is more unique.
Source: I’m a Physician & Biotech Chief Medical Officer
Liizam | 2 hours ago
Ok yes I also work with scientists and I am an engineer. There are plenty who are good at both. Sure they are more rare but not that rare. I worked with many entrepreneurs as well. A lot have engineering degrees.
L0ghe4d | an hour ago
That's all fine.
But I've met alot of CEOs and CFOs in my time.
Seldomly they are serious powerhouses in which I would agree with you.
Most of the time, it just looks like they got lucky or were cutthroat. Seriously talented people don't want to be managers.
Jensen Huang at one time was the most important piece at Nvidia, but I'd argue that he is no longer that.
Almost always theres a person thats less famous that most people don't know about doing the actual work that are extremely talented.
A company is lucky to have one of these people, I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia had a dozen.
ginsunuva | 6 hours ago
CEO isn’t an engineering task…
Liizam | 2 hours ago
The comment I replied said brilliant engineer and scientist who is also ceo.
Idk maybe a technical company would benefit from engineering leadership instead of mbas. What do you think?
Lucky-Mia | 9 hours ago
The Spie connection really is a big problem. He was clearly willing to sell out everything for some strange on the side. He should probably be facing a possible criminal investigation for his circumvention of sanctions. NVIDIA definitely wants to distance themselves from any investigation.
DramaticSimple4315 | 9 hours ago
From the outside it seems like the guy was not up to the task when his company found itself not at the heart of a dynamic digital rollout, but at the nexus of perhaps the biggest geostrategic stakes of this century.
I was aghast by his performance with Erza Klein, which is a fair interviewer and not a particularly bright mind and staggering intellectual. And more or less his cavalier attitude over the past two years, including in the circular financing deal that he underwrote with the vast part of his own customers.
You are here looking at one of the best possible illustrations that success in one industry, at one particular point in time, does not equal universal and everlasting genius. Once again, one of the self-proclamied or self-behvaing tech-masters of the world reveals itself to be, at the end of the day, quite dumb.
mephOW | 8 hours ago
From that Ezra Klein interview some of his takes were bafflingly stupid, like (paraphrased):
“Maybe it’s fine that kids won’t have to learn their times tables anymore, they can learn to be systems thinkers instead,” and “no 100 million or billion dollar company would ever release a product that is harmful to society, because they would be sued,” and “maybe it’s less important to learn certain things these days, like I don’t know my own address!,” and “risks from AI are no different from any previous technology, it’s all just software and we know how to fix engineering problems.”
I’m sure he’s a smart guy in some realms, but not smart enough to come up with lies that don’t make him sound like a moron. If nothing else, he’s a very dedicated salesman.
his ouster is probably bad for the consumer GPU market given the company’s roots, but if dude can’t be loyal to his wife I’d be a fucking rube to think he’d be loyal to “gamers” lol
daft_trump | 9 hours ago
Vocabulary exceeds the quality of the writing.
crowcawer | 9 hours ago
The CTE TLDR: How NVIDIA fumbling the bag to their competitors?
The answer: Jensen was more interested in fondling.
Infinite_Dress_3312 | 9 hours ago
Well said
Serious_Berry_3977 | 9 hours ago
Nothing will happen to this dude, he's got Trump who's going to pardon him. The AI bubble on the other hand might be burst now and cause massive damage to the economy. Could be a wild ride. I have not been paying attention to any news, so this came out of nowhere for me and I do question the timing given the political upheaval that just happened here.
Gilbert_Reddit | 9 hours ago
Giving an opinion and then saying you have not been paying attention actually made me lel
Snafu-ish | 8 hours ago
Or the not paying attention and then saying this came out of nowhere lol
Raichu4u | 9 hours ago
Average reddit user
Electronic_Froyo_597 | 9 hours ago
An affair isn't popping the bubble.. it'll just shift value to other competitors.
jstn455 | 9 hours ago
You don’t think the economy is already damaged? How about a massive correction. By massive damage, you just mean wealthy people will be less wealthy. And risky day traders.
Keatwan | 7 hours ago
Nothing ever happens
K3idon | 6 hours ago
So nothing useful to say. Got it.
ThotPoppa | 8 hours ago
Since when was cheating on your wife illegal?
oDearDear | 7 hours ago
Selling high end GPUs to China is illegal. That will be thoroughly investigated.
In the short term Nvidia will probably have to stop shipping anything but the low end stuff to China. None of the execs will want to end up in jail for a few GPUs.
ThotPoppa | 7 hours ago
I thought they were sold to Singapore before later being funneled to china? Seems like nobody knows anything yet
oDearDear | 7 hours ago
Yeah, maybe. Anyone with a hint of a connection with China will not get the high end GPUs anymore. Jail time is a pretty good deterrent I would think.
Bluestripedshirt | 9 hours ago
He didn’t do anything illegal. It was just infidelity. What?
gingimli | 8 hours ago
This is a failure of reporting being so focused on the cheating.
He was potentially using the alleged spy’s company as an indirect way to sell chips to China, because he wasn’t supposed to sell chips to China due to the export ban.
ginsunuva | 6 hours ago
But this was known (minus the spy part) for a couple years now
I_AM_THE_CATALYST | 8 hours ago
It is a federal crime and a felony if JH is found to have known to have sold chips through a “chinese spy” and made its way into China. US has export controls on this: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48642
A violation of export control can be a federal felony and is policed by the US Secretary of Commerce. If found guilty, JH will likely be charged and Nvidia may pay a hefty fine (unlikely if Trump is in office).
Kind of weird how this all came out after midterms when it was known JH had a close relationship with another SE Asian company executive.
Nothing will likely happen and a preemptive pardon will go out.
But this is a felony crime. Sexual relationships, to your point, are not.
ThereGoesTheSquash | 9 hours ago
He actually did do a lot of illegal stuff and the DoD is big mad. Possibly he sold state defense secrets to China.
ginsunuva | 6 hours ago
Why would he have any state defense secrets?
ThereGoesTheSquash | 4 hours ago
They use the chips in the military.
robustofilth | 8 hours ago
And your proof is what?
nonamenomonet | 8 hours ago
He was getting around export controls
ThereGoesTheSquash | 7 hours ago
The fuck are you talking about? He is a billionaire and I am a nurse. Yeah sure I will send you “proof”
High_Contact_ | 9 hours ago
What exactly would you expect for him to suffer for infidelity? What would he be charged with? Also watch as the market eats this up as a buying opportunity nothing fundamentally has change with nvda. If you don’t own it you should be buying it.
Edit: oh look the stock price is now above his resignation announcement.
1shmeckle | 8 hours ago
The amount of brain dead people who think this is about infidelity is baffling. If you’re not paying attention to the actual news about this why are you bothering commenting at all.
High_Contact_ | 8 hours ago
Lol, the best they seem to have is allegations of misleading shareholders and failing to disclose national security risks. Neither fundamentally changes NVIDIA’s underlying value, and removing him doesn’t either. So again, what exactly are they going to charge him with?
glory_holelujah | 7 hours ago
Misleading shareholders is securities fraud. Alleged bypassing of export controls is also a crime.
Also your last statement seems to imply charges are tied to loss of value by NVIDIA? Why is that?
High_Contact_ | 7 hours ago
Because OP was talking about impact to markets. Also lol yeah I’m sure they will charge him with securities fraud right after the get musk charged for lying to shareholders for the last decade. Get real.
glory_holelujah | 7 hours ago
Ok goalposts. You asked what they would charge him with. Not the likelihood.
High_Contact_ | 7 hours ago
First off, those allegations against NVIDIA have come from shareholders, not from any established factual findings. Allegations alone are not evidence of wrongdoing. You’re saying that he could be charged with these things with nothing to back up the actual allegations you’re coming from. That’s ontop of the fact that it would be very hard for them to charge him with either of those unless he was facilitating it which seems incredibly unlikely.
glory_holelujah | 5 hours ago
The feds are investigating. So yeah there are only allegations at the moment but those allegations can become something more concrete. To dismiss them out of hand before any investigation has concluded is premature. And notice I said could because those allegations can lead to charges if substantiated.
1shmeckle | 7 hours ago
It doesn’t really matter what they charge him with, it’s matters if there are investigations into Nvidia’s business practices and if customers decide to continue working with Nvidia long term. More importantly, it matters that in response to this there is a non trivial chance Nvidia will have to derisk by not selling chips to companies they suspect are smuggling chips into China without a CEO who is on good terms with Trump.
High_Contact_ | 7 hours ago
Okay, let’s play out your scenario. NVIDIA gets investigated, and companies start reconsidering whether to do business with them. Who exactly are they going to switch to? Who can supply anything remotely comparable at the scale NVIDIA operates?
NVIDIA has already struggled to meet demand. Do you genuinely believe that even in your worst case scenario, every major customer suddenly stops buying, while the countless other companies waiting for access to NVIDIA’s chips just decide they don’t want them either?
You’re assuming an investigation somehow eliminates demand for products that the market already can’t get enough of.
1shmeckle | 7 hours ago
No, I’m arguing that creating this scenario is more than just “infidelity.” Jensen is being punished for creating a shit ton of unnecessary risk.
Given that Singapore was (when they were still reporting by geography) 22% of their revenue, he also may have cost Nvidia shit ton of money.
Obviously demand won’t disappear but acting like this is just infidelity is asinine.
4Looper | 8 hours ago
He should be investigated for serious crimes. It's very likely the infidelity is just a part of him circumventing the ban on selling his chips to China which is an actual crime. Nobody who's been paying attention cares about the infidelity that shit is pedestrian.
High_Contact_ | 8 hours ago
OK, so you pretty much just made all of that up based on what, exactly? There have been no public allegations that Jensen Huang personally facilitated moving chips into China or knowingly violated export controls. What has actually been reported is that he had a relationship with a woman suspected of working for Chinese intelligence, whose company is under investigation for allegedly diverting restricted Nvidia chips to China.
YoItsThatOneDude | 8 hours ago
Exactly, he gonna lose his job, and wife, and 50% of his shares… lucky its just tgat…..
High_Contact_ | 8 hours ago
Yup people are just salty and want these to crash because they didn’t make money on it.
anonanonanon247365 | 5 hours ago
Found the Nvidia bag holder
High_Contact_ | 5 hours ago
lol have never owned nvidia but keep telling yourself whatever story you need. The fact remains that this hasn’t changed anything about nvidia or the ai trade.
robustofilth | 9 hours ago
He’s broken no laws buddy…he needs no pardon.
snowrazer_ | 3 hours ago
China is super happy about this. They just need to get their sexy women to sleep with our leaders, that’s all it takes and we will fire them. No secrets needed. China wins.
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
It’s sad to see a founder taken down by a simple marital infidelity.
But if that’s the new standard for leadership I proffer the fact that there’s likely quite a few incoming firings and resignations…
For sure.
smithereennnnn | 9 hours ago
>simple marital infidelity
He got compromised by a foreign spy, its not about the infidelity
Karma1913 | 9 hours ago
Seriously.
Simple infidelity is still a thing to be concerned about anyways. It's a tool of espionage because it's a great way to blackmail someone.
SardScroll | 9 hours ago
There is also the liability of the other affair with a direct report.
As a "bonus", he's the face of the company; shifting that might be good PR optics if/when Nvidia shifts back from AI chip focus to the consumer market (which is the obvious play if the AI bubble bursts).
No_Zombie2021 | 9 hours ago
It’s simple in the way that it’s “mundane and predictable” not simple as trivial.
DebateableOpinionHvr | 8 hours ago
So fired for being a…. Victim ?
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
Gotcha,…so nobody in power can have foreign lovers….
WalkingTurtleMan | 9 hours ago
It’s not a simple martial infidelity.
It’s a Chinese agent working to get advanced chips AND a subordinate.
Both are bad by themselves. Both of them at the same time is insane. One alone could be played off as a lapse in judgment but two is a pattern.
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
A pattern of taking advantage of subordinates…
Multiple times you say.
Good thing he’s the only guy doing that.
LooseAd7981 | 9 hours ago
Infidelity with a foreign spy is a very serious transgression in this case. Also, a sexual relationship with a direct report is grounds for termination in any company. No exceptions for famous CEOs.
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
I give you Shivon Zilis.
laterthanlast | 9 hours ago
I think good judgment was always a standard of leadership and this guy clearly does not have it. Sleeping with a foreign spy and a direct report? Come on now. One might be a tragic mistake; two demonstrates terrible judgment.
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
Shivon Zilis?
Special_Regret_6805 | 9 hours ago
Yeah no, no one actually cares about the infidelity.
You need to look more into the story. Jensen violated trade laws for years. Gave away secrets to our biggest foreign adversary. All over some pussy from a Chinese spy.
Jensen can get in serious trouble over this. The government can crack down hard on NVIDIA and Jensen, especially given the dem majority right now that is anti AI.
findingdbcooper | 9 hours ago
What secrets could he give away?
p001b0y | 9 hours ago
I’m assuming there is more to it than the affair. There is probably quite a bit we don’t know yet but it has put the company in a bad situation.
Baron-Munc | 9 hours ago
Naw they were already in a bad circle this is just cover for a taxpayer bailout.
WeekendAtMadoffs | 8 hours ago
Jensen did nothing wrong. CEO's have affairs all the time. 10's of thousands of chinese nationals are working at big tech companies in trusted positions. Are they all "spies" ? The powers that be want to make straight relationships seem abnormal and shameful while promoting LGBT.