When a man cheats, he can be punished by:
- His wife and children leaving and hating him
- Financial losses from divorce
- A tarnished reputation, etc.
He shouldn’t be punished by:
- A coordinated hit job
- Losing the trillion-dollar company he founded
It's now obvious that US intelligence agencies carried out another coup, but not against a foreign head of state this time, but rather against Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
First, US spies and China hawks spread the unsubstantiated rumor that the Chinese businesswoman with whom he had an affair, Alice Huang, was a spy.
Next, they forced him to resign.
Now, US spies are acknowledging that there is no evidence that she is a spy. But they don't care, because they accomplished their goal: removing Jensen Huang.
Who benefits? China hawks and Silicon Valley monopolists.
China hawks have been demanding much harsher US policies against China, as part of the chip war / tech war / Cold War Two. Jensen Huang had lobbied hard against these (because he and Nvidia profited, of course).
Some US Big Tech corporations also benefit, because Jensen Huang had been an outspoken advocate of open-source AI models. OpenAI and Anthropic have been lobbying the US government to ban these, because Chinese open-source models are much cheaper and more competitive, and have been eating their lunch.
Three leaks in a row is not random, it’s a coordinated hit job. Someone wanted to assassinate Jensen Huang’s character.
Whether you think he deserved it or not is a different matter and not related to these very important questions:
Who wanted to get rid of Jensen Huang? Who released this information? How long did they have it? And why did they release it now?
if you publish false allegations that ruin someone’s life, you deserve to be dragged into court.
and if jensen comes back, i hope he goes after the economist and nyt with everything he’s got.
This is an incredible piece. A few highlights:
“Jensen secretly tipped a Denny’s waitress $1,000 in cash; here’s why that is evidence of malignant narcissism.”
“Being opinionated and passionate in his role as CEO of the most valuable company in the world is despicable.”
“Making a concerted effort to empower women at his company of over 40 thousand employees was only done for personal sexual gratification.”
This is the most ridiculous smear campaign I have ever seen.
Apparently Jensen was such a narcissistic asshole he liked visiting small restaurants and leave generous tips without making a show out of it
Absolutely disgusting and despicable behavior by him, thank god the @nytimes reported this scandal
You don't hate journalists enough