Official PR from NVIDIA

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 117 points 6 hours ago (43 children)

Imagine being one of the wealthiest people in the world, with a great job and a loving family, and then throwing it all away because a Chinese spy complimented your leather jacket collection

  • source
  • hideshow 43 child comments
  • [–] 88 points 6 hours ago (12 children)

    You could tell from stuff he's said publicly in front of the camera that it went to his head a long time ago.

    People like him will always be their own worst enemy.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 12 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 6 hours ago (8 children)

    Cheating is not really exclusive to the rich. People of all classes and backgrounds cheat.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 17 points 5 hours ago (6 children)

    Sure, but the small handful of people who are CEOs of multibillion tech companies are all arrogant, pathologically narcissistic psychopaths.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (5 children)

    Which, coincidentally, describes my ex wife.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

    Is she single? I could use the billions

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago (2 children)

    I meant the arrogant-pathological-narcissitic psychopath.

    She did pull a knife on me a couple of times after all.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 49 points 6 hours ago (14 children)

    I'm already tried of the affair-story. Jensen illegally sold GPU's to China, with some help and possibly pressure from Alice. What people should be caring about now is whether he's going to prison or not

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 14 child comments
  • [–] 24 points 6 hours ago (4 children)
  • [–] 4 points 6 hours ago (3 children)
  • [–] 24 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Eventually and after much outcry. Don't forget that the first case against him in the 2000s was made to go away - including providing legal immunity to Epstein and any potential co-conspirators - and the guy responsible was later given a position in Trump's cabinet until the whole thing went public.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    And then he "died".

    Either he's actually dead, in which case he wasn't punished for what he did, but for threatening to expose other powerful people, or he's alive and living in exile.

    Probably the former, but when it comes to the wealthy and powerful, I won't rule anything out.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 10 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

    Honest question, why should I give a shit that some CEO wanted to sell GPU's to China?

    Of all the things I would want to see an American CEO put into jail for, selling GPU's to China(which everyone knew was happening) and being semi in favor of China's open weight AI development strategy that would be better from a consumer perspective is close to the bottom of that list.

    Put the CEO's in jail for systematically exploiting global south labor for decades. For colluding to bribe politicians and override democratic processes to force data centers into communities. For stealing more productive human output in a few years then all the labor theft in the whole history of capitalism.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

    I don't care about the exact reason why he might be going to prison, nor do I really care about selling stuff to china, but what I have been excited about is the possibility of a ceo going to prison for breaking the law. If the crime happens to be selling stuff to china, so be it

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 1 hour ago* (2 children)

    The only time people in the capitalist class are truly punished in America is if they defraud other capitalists or threaten the broader imperialist policies meant to protect US hegemonic capitalism...Enron, Savings and Loans, and Bernie Madoff.

    So if he receives anything, based on history, it will be because of that and would be little more than a pyrrhic victory.

    Certainly not a sign that suddenly healthcare CEOs will be dragged to the firing squads for denying cancer treatments to patients to boost shareholder value. Or that America's institutions set up to protect this system are on the cusp of a reckoning over decades of imperialist exploitation.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago*

    Yea I mean the chances aren't high, but there are also political games going on that are giving me a tiny bit of hope. From what i've heard, the possible prosecutors (or whatever, I forgot who exactly has the power to put him in prison) are anti-trump republicans, who could use this case to distance themselves from trump (Jensen is a "buddy" of trump). Yea, the odds are slim, but they are probably as big as they could get

    Edit: and i guess one could argue that nvidia has commited a bit of fraud, as they have used illegal means to increase revenue, thus lied about the long-term profitability of the company

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Like if America is so concerned about chips being sold to China. Why have they not locked down Nvidia and AMD under matters of national security and defense.

    Like it really feels like this entire thing is a fucking mess.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago

    Please don't give them any more ideas lol, what OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic want is exactly more stuff like this.

    They want a “moat” around their services. Protected by the most powerful government in the world, the US.

    Almost everything these companies have done has been an attempt to keep this tech and it's supply chain as closed and proprietary as possible.

    Hell, Sam Altman is out there saying the quiet part out loud that they don't even want consumers to have direct access to things like ram anymore.

    And frankly, I wouldn't be shocked if the reason this is happening is for that very reason. A justification they can carve out to justify letting Nvidia stock fall as they simultaneously lock down the tech in a way only US AI companies will be able to easily use it.

    I think like almost everything else America does it will bite us in the ass longterm, but this is directly giving the AI companies what they want. And I suspect we are on the road to that happening.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago

    Could be Jensen was bribing the US president to sell chips to China and taking advantage of the period of any politician is openly for sale, but now with the power shift of the House and Senate and possible investigations.

    It felt more prudent to get ahead of the story before January when the new elected official take their seats. Maybe he'll buy a pardon.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 22 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    Throwing it all away?

    Even after losing his job and the divorce settlement he'll be one of the wealthiest people on the planet and to ever live.

    It's not like this is China where they will actually jail or execute CEO's.

    Capital still runs the show.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] -1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    There is an FBI investigation

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 10 points 3 hours ago*

    I'm sure Kash Patel, the Trump DOJ, and an organization that has heavily functioned to preserve existing political and economic hierarchies will go thru the motions and corporate Dems will hold their hearings and make a pageantry of some things. And the result will be at best, a big wet fart, and at most, it will just be directed in a way that will end up advancing broader capitalist/imperialist interests.

    Like say putting much stricter controls on the sale of AMD/Nvidia chips which will conveniently benefit all the AI companies who want China and even consumers to have less access to the underlying components of this tech. Which is the one area Jenson was at odds with AI. Open weight and broad access to AI is good for Nvidia, but not for the AI companies.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 17 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

    Its not just the spy though, there's a second affair too.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 25 points 6 hours ago (3 children)
  • [–] [S] 10 points 6 hours ago

    She did what? I mean, the sex I can understand; it's all part of the job if you're in the spy business. But complimenting that jacket is... just too degrading.

    Other than that, I know losing your job in this economy is tough, but I don't think Huang is going to have too much trouble paying his mortgage for a few lifetimes. I am so sorry for his family, though.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

    he hasn't really thrown much away. this just gets him out of the public eye a little bit. he still keeps getting paid. he only loses his salary which constituted like 4% of his income. He's doing this because he knows if nvidia's stock continues to tank, the majority of his income and most importantly... his 100+ bil worth of stock value... also tanks.

  • source
  • parent