Gerrit De Vynck 🦭

I write about AI for the @WashingtonPost.
Signal me at GerritD.27
email: [email protected].

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

8% drop is about how much Nvidia fell when Trump announced tariffs in Mar. 2025. Nvidia fell 18% on DeepSeek fears a couple months before that.

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

And/or have a shareholder vote after the investigation is complete.

Difficult to argue this is in the best interest of shareholders with the stock down 8% after hours on the WSJ report about the board preparing to oust him.

[Sri Muppidi @srimuppidi]

from yesterday's @dealbook on who could potentially replace jensen:

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

@_NathanCalvin how does it feel to have created a meme that will truly live on

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Tracking Jensen's view on China https://t.co/zvXrOfJwcW @jdcapelouto

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

they think they are being effective as-is -- see the immense shift in public opinion against AI, the wave of people just elected to more strictly regulate the tech etc.
they also generally don't have a background in traditional escalatory political tactics.
and then I think just the knowledge and fear of their movement being crushed by the American state if they ever did anything remotely violent

[Cory Weinberg @coryweinberg]

A split-screen across tech this week: Dario Amodei's Wall Street coming-out party, with Jensen Huang's corporate drama

But the 2 men, who have had plenty of sniping, need each other more than ever

First NYT byline outlines IPO stakes, politics + history:
https://t.co/au1wentMA3

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann]

Terrific @TheAtlantic piece on archaeologists' and anthropologists' slowly dawning realization that now-submerged areas on the coastal shelf--swathes of land drowned when the glaciers melted--may be where much of our species' early history took place. (Link in reply)

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

@Tylerauto88 yes, driving motorcycles is one of the most dangerous things you can do on earth

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

these are wonderful until you think about getting hit by an F150 while driving one

[Car and Driver @CARandDRIVER]

Toyota is relaunching the Scion brand, and its first product is the KEI-01, a tiny truck with a 660-cc engine. The KEI-01 is basically a rebadged Daihatsu Hijet Jumbo, but will be assembled in Princeton, Indiana. Initial sales will be via a fleet-focused trial program, but limited retail sales could come if there is strong enough demand.

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

@DGAllan @harrisonlowman right, I saw the longer clips that other people are posting, and in french especially that seems to be what he's saying

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

@NatPurser wow sounds like a great contact to have!

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

@Vesmic87 probably for the best. I saw one on the highway in Calgary the other day

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

Holy shit this article about ICE agents hired by DHS is brutal.

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

@semaforben Lisa Su

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

Weak board, no successor — governance nightmare https://t.co/zNXkuWVrQl

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

crazy to have emoji reacts on this at all

[Singularity Research @SingularityRes]

Who are the two people who reacted with 🎉 to Jensen’s infidelity post?

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

@lennysan thanks in large part to aggressive fishery management!

[Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 @GerritD]

@US_Stormwatch @united we need to gatekeep this just the right amount so not too many people go but there's enough demand so united doesnt cancel the route

[Patrick McGee @PatrickMcGee_]

There’s a silver lining to all this drama. However much America needs Jensen Huang the founder, the engineer, the CEO, it can do without Jensen Huang the foreign-policy strategist, AI soothsayer, and unofficial adviser to the White House. Thanks to his affair, that role is likely over.

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