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Well, sure, it sounds bad when you put it like that.
It is indeed quite bad. National security has been compromised. He must resign.
Nvidia underperformed the Nasdaq roughly 7% on the news. Matt Levine has his usual ‘but is this securities fraud?’ style coverage of such events.
Table of Contents
• Spy Versus Guy.
• In Hindsight There Were Some Hints.
• Trump Knew And Did Nothing and Still ‘Backs’ Jensen Huang.
• Reconsidering Jensen Huang’s Arguments Against Export Controls.
• Jensen Huang Lied About the Affair.
• Jensen Huang and His AI Are Sorry, Everyone.
• The CEO of The World’s Largest Chipmaker Having an Affair With a Chinese Spy and Then Selling Them Chips is a Huge Deal, Actually.
• We Don’t Go There.
• Yes, National Security Was Compromised, What Are You Even Talking About.
• Nvidia Intervened To Halt an Investigation into Megaspeed.
• The House Foreign Affairs Committee Would Like a Word.
• He Would Plausibly Have Treated America as an Obstacle Anyway.
• What China Wants.
• Time to Resign?
• You Better Watch Out.
Spy Versus Guy
China’s top spy agency recruited Alice Huang to be a Chinese spy. She then had an affair with Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia. Even if he did not know or suspect she was a spy, he knew she was a major customer and he sold her billions in GPUs.
Rob Wiblin: So Jensen was having an affair with a customer, who also happened to be a Chinese spy, for months. Lied to the board. Lied to journalists.
Meanwhile pushing to sell maximum of cutting edge AI chips to China against advice of ~entire natsec community. Can’t make this shit up.
Adam Chalmers: If your husband is going to cheat on you, ideally it’s with a spy. If your husband cheats with some random girl at a party, ouch. If your husband is ensnared by the resources of the entire Chinese state apparatus + professional seducers… you got dealt a bad hand.
If some random dad at the daycare is better at making my wife laugh, I’d feel a bit jealous. If John Mulaney was at our dayc