| ▲ | dantillberg a day ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jensen's not coming back anytime soon. You can disregard/diminish the affairs, and you can believe that the "spy" angle is overblown/wrong. But Jensen Huang has admitted to a longstanding affair with the CEO of a company that appears to exist only to evade ITAR restrictions. It's just impossible to believe that Jensen did not know what MegaSpeed was doing. While by all appearances he facilitated and benefited from it personally. And one can also believe that ITAR restrictions on GPU sales are dumb, but evading them still counts as selling sensitive weapons to the enemy, both legally and politically. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | throwaway2037 a day ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To be clear, ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) does not apply to GPUs. You can see the full list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_... Instead, Export Administration Regulations (EAR) applies to exports of technology (software and hardware). Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_Administration_Regulati... About MegaSpeed: They were NVidia largest customer in Southeast Asia (which includes Singapore), buying about 140,000 GPUs in the last 2-3 years. Then, then built data centers in Southeast Asia and rented the GPUs to Mainland Chinese companies. To be clear: From 2023-2025 (their peak), this business model was not prohibited by United States GPU export controls. However, that will probably change soon. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | blackcatsec a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is the biggest issue to me. Affairs are a personal matter between his family and his wife. And when they involve subordinates, his company. But what is absolutely unacceptable is knowingly engaging in a continued relationship with a Chinese spy. He had to have known that Singapore confiscated her passport, and I'm sure he brought it up. There are very few reasons why a country would confiscate your passport. Also, both the company she was "CEO" of and her path to that role are so shady that it's unbelievable that it even worked. Though it seems it did to a point. Anyways, I think he knew; or at least suspected it and kept going. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | nialv7 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
trump and his inner circle know about this for nearly a year. NYT reported on megaspeed diverting chips a year ago. let alone folk reportings from people like gamers nexus. they already know nvidia is circumventing ITAR and were fine about it for about a year. you are not seeing the real question, which is: why now? what changed? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | irthomasthomas a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If Sam can come back after he lied to the board and to Congress that he had no personal stake in openai, while steering business to companies[0] which he did secretly own and control, then Jensen can come back too. [0] Openai Startup Fund "This was also news to the board. What was this person talking about? OpenAI did launch a startup fund in 2021, which it said at the time would be “managed” by OpenAI, with investment from Microsoft and others. The fund had invested in the AI-driven legal startup Harvey and a handful of other companies. But what was this about returns not going to OpenAI shareholders? The board began to ask Altman about it, and over the course of months of going back and forth, eventually learned that Altman owned the fund personally, and had been raising money from LPs to fund it." https://www.openaifiles.org/ceo-integrity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | jaredklewis a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bloomberg, NYT, and Culper Research all reported that MegaSpeed was illegally diverting chips to China. Hard to imagine that the press could know, but not Jensen. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | fivetenpen a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I wouldn’t discount the power of employees in this scenario. Many of them are millionaires and can afford to leave. If enough people threaten to do quit they can absolutely get whatever they want, including getting him back. Nvidia is just a name without it’s talent. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | AdrianCX a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Jensen's not coming back anytime soon. It depends on him, i can see things breaking at NVDA enough to ask him to come back Even employee action here is pretty powerful If he wants to come back is a different thing, he can do anything he wants He can start a competitor to NVDA and poach enough employees to build a product and is connected and rich enough to get manufacturing and supply chains going... Or he might just want to enjoy his life | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Glyptodon a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yeah, I agree the question seems to be a lot more about knowingly participating in circumventing ITAR than whether Alice Huang truly counts as a spy (which I find very unclear - maybe I define "spy" differently than most?). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||