Please observe the substantial difference between "an affair", "an affair with a spy who may or may not have been part of a plan to illegally sell billions of dollars of GPUs against export controls", and "an affair with one of your direct reports"

One of these things is a mostly private matter between you and your spouse. One of them involves congressional hearings and may land you and your company in serious deep poop. And one of them is widely recognized as an abuse of power in the workplace.

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keithnz a day ago | parent [-]

only if he knew right? otherwise he's just having an affair.... that the government knew about..... and didn't tell him.... because there's no evidence of anything untoward....

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ls612 a day ago | parent | next [-]

This is the part people discount. Any actual attempt to go after Jensen will run into the public reporting that the government was suspicious of the maybe spy’s relationship with Jensen, and it chose not to tell him about it. Jensen has ignorance handed to him on a silver platter.

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verdverm a day ago | parent [-]

perhaps that $25M ballroom donation was part of a package deal

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ls612 a day ago | parent [-]

This is completely nonsensical. You somehow think Jensen donated to the ballroom to not be given defensive security briefings?

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verdverm a day ago | parent [-]

to have the DOJ look the other way on a number of things, chip exports and a quashed investigation are the smoking guns

this is not about the affairs or spy, this is about the future of Ai and who gets to decide what that looks like, Jensen is a casualty in other peoples games

there are reports the whitehouse is considering ousting Lutnick over this, sounds like we have a lot more to learn about

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ls612 a day ago | parent [-]

I’d assume a possible endgame is a lot of the thousands of post economic Nvidia employees threaten to leave and go join whatever venture Jensen does next. That is what did in the OpenAI power game three years ago.

	▲	m4rtink a day ago \| parent [-]
		Says something about the morals and ethics of people that would do this - $>humanity, every time for them!

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soraminazuki a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> only if he knew right

How can he not know he was sleeping with a customer and a direct report?

> he's just having an affair

Interesting use of the word "an" and "just."

> that the government knew about

Because of an investigation into illegal smuggling.

> and didn't tell him

Is that a judgement of whether he's a good steward of a multi-trillion dollar monopoly?

> because there's no evidence of anything untoward

Right, because the current administration only acts upon evidence and definitely not self-enrichment and cronyism.

Wow, how can every single word be such complete bs?

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BugsJustFindMe a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He probably knew about two of them being his workplace subordinates.

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chrisco255 a day ago | parent [-]

Everyone is subordinate to the CEO. That doesn't really make any sense. Unless it can be shown that it was coerced or led to favoritism. I admit it's a dangerous line to walk.

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rolosa a day ago | parent | next [-]

You're almost there!

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soraminazuki a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What everyone? You know it's possible for a CEO to have a romantic relationship with someone they don't have a business relationships with, right? Like say, his wife?

	▲	chrisco255 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes theres lots of possibilities isn't there? For all we know Jensen has an open relationship. And it's very human for coworkers or industry workers to date and hook up. It's not inherently wrong.

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bluefirebrand a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, so a CEO shouldn't sleep with literally anyone who works at their company

	▲	chrisco255 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why not? If it's a consensual relationship between two adults and creates no claims of coercion or favoritism, why not?

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brendoelfrendo a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Funnily enough, all of these things are avoidable if you just don't go around having affairs in the first place.