>NVIDIA has supposedly been skirting the export ban put in place by the previous administration.

That's not the reason either.

They never did it in a way that was technically legal iirc. And the new administration allowed the exports later anyway and lifted the AI ban on July 2025.

Even she was a spy, the idea is that what? I can understand her snooping for fresh confidential info, in that, case, but what would her role be the sanctions? That just because he got her as gf, he made nvidia evade exports as a favor?

As if it was his personal bypass and not what the nvidia board wanted for the $$$?

They're likely worried about the optics of it, and what a Democrat administration, or increased power, would do to Nvidia stocks with such scandal as leverage.

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combobyte a day ago | parent [-]

> They never did it in a way that was technically legal iirc.

If Jensen knew that Megaspeed was a Chinese front, then he willfully engaged in a criminal conspiracy to circumvent US export controls. That is very serious felony.

I know it's just speculation, but the fact that Nvidia hasn't tried to scapegoat some random compliance officer strongly suggests to me that Jensen did know, and that the board has seen the paper trail that proves it.

	▲	coldtea 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>If Jensen knew that Megaspeed was a Chinese front, then he willfully engaged in a criminal conspiracy to circumvent US export controls. That is very serious felony. Sure, but the US gov itself lifted those controls soon. So they get this for bypassing controls that they lifted and found no use for anyway? And does anybody really believe those exports, of the #1 most crucial supposedly restricted tech, wheren't covertly greenlit and scruitinized when they happened? Like, it caught anybody in government or nvidia or bodies checking these things as a surprise? And why would they need some special honeypot for that? He was advocating for sales to china because they're good for nvdia's bottom line, way before he hooked up with that woman! As for low level details, wouldn't be smarter, less visible to all, and more effective if they honeypotted some key technician instead? The CEO would be too visible in his moves, and too high position to know or care for the low level technical details, the kind that would be of interest to competitors. More likely they know and were ok those things all along, but he's no longer useful, or his preferences doesn't work well with the new plans in the tech war with China, or they fear what would happen to Nvidia stock with Democrats in power having this compromising info to play up, and they got rid of him.