alt Hacker NewsSmuggling of 1.5M AI GPUs could be the cause of Huang's departure
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Whether people like it or not, CEOs in strategic industries are in positions of trust. Like most positions of trust, governments do background checks/surveillance on you. For any of you who have held a security clearance and already know this: having affairs, in and of itself, isn’t an issue (bear with me, I’m not making a moral judgement). But private behavior that can be leaked is a point of leverage for competing actors.
Whether he smuggled the chips under coercion or not, someone or something within the US government would have eventually leaked this to limit the possibility of blackmail. The movement of that many GPUs may have simply expedited the release of the info.
(This of course ignores the 800lb gorilla: whatever kompromat Russia has on the Trump admin, but that’s a separate and much bigger problem)
That was the obvious reason when the first affair was announced as a silly distraction. Look at the media that got this wrong and focused on the affair instead of the smuggling. That is the media you should not trust going forward.
As far as I can tell, the only traditional media member saying anything correctly was ed zitron. Otherwise MooresLawIsDead and GamersNexus on youtube.
The whole point of circular financing and large data centers was to increase production so more cards could make their way to china. The best part of the plan is when all this unused hardware needs to be sold off, US companies won't sell it into the US market. They will sell it overseas, so the unused hardware will also find its way to china eventually.
Jensen and the CEOs who signed these deals are all smugglers. Why do the rich people with full unilateral control of the companies they run all get to act ignorant about obvious crimes? Put them all in jail.
What other crime in US history would add up to the amount of money involved in this one? Madoff didn't steal this much money from US businesses and consumers, it's not even close.
Was he black mailed? Or didnt know where to stuff the excess?
Someone go do a sentiment analysis on HN regarding Jensen. There's definitely a lot of "positive" about him staying in charge. Something I never really saw until he was fired.
It is interesting how there's so many dots that are easy to connect here, and some dont want to even try to connect them.
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From experience of reviewing many companies I'm fully positively biased in favor of technical (co=)founders. I realy could not care less about the affairs of people I do not know. I do not approve, but it is ceo's I do not know or interact with. However, when this thouches treason/eapionage or other illegal activities, it does become important as it now touches not the personal but the public.