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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Resigns (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 15 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I wouldn't call my self a fan of Huang, but this smells like blackmail especially with the air time it's getting. A billionaire sleeping around is literally not news. I wonder what he didn't want to do to make the shareholders want to replace him

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago

    It's not about sleeping around but bypassing export controls which is a lot more serious. The first affair being with a Chinese citizen who was an executive of Megaspeed being used to move 7.5 billion dollars worth of chips is what is causing panic.

    Jensen was also likely able to sell blacklisted chips after bribing or sucking up to the US president. But now control of the House and Senate is no longer under the control of the President's party. New elected officials take their seats in January, and this is probably attempts to get ahead of the situation and avoid further investigation.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Illegally sell chips to China comes to mind

    The claim is that it's a Chinese spy that did the work but who knows

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  • [–] -2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    Now the CEO is responsible for that? I thought it was we don't know what is heppening the company is to big we can't know everything. I guess it depends on whatever they want it to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    He could claim that if someone else from the company was meeting Alice at megaspeed and being photographed. If it had been someone else flying to Beijing with Trump to convince him to sell chips to China and donating $25 million to him. Coming to an agreement to move H200s from Taiwan to the US before shipping out to China for the US government to collect tariffs off it. If Lutnik hadn't been warned about Alice and Megaspeed by US intelligence a year before but chose to allow the deal to continue.

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/democrats-launch-nvidia-investigation-write-scathing-letter-on-huangs-scheme-with-trump/

    And most important of all if Trump hadn't lost control of two branches of government after the US midterms.

    Unfortunately Jensen didn't do those things and political powers shifting while leaving behind a loud paper trail instead of being more covert like Chase who explained why they didn't donate to the ballroom like other companies.

    “We have an issue, OK, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful about how anything is perceived,” Dimon said. “And also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.”

    https://thehill.com/business/5593632-dimon-jpmorgan-white-house-ballroom/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Billionaires sleeping around, even with consent, is enough to sink them as CEO. It's happened to big companies in Australia. It's news for short sellers and a great lever to pry open the dramas of their personal lives and get people talking in private interviews. Especially if there's a court case, discovery can be spicy

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