@HeyNurseKat Super easy to Google the life expectancy of the average person over centuries and see the spikes in years (decades!) that accompany medical advances
@magi_jay The only thing this guy has ever convinced people of is that he is not a sexist, old, mediocre white guy who for over half a century has done absolutely no outreach to minority communities
While the news covers Jensen Huang's affair, I decided to follow the chips instead. They led me to Megaspeed, the alleged spy's company and Nvidia's biggest customer in Southeast Asia—except it may not be so "Southeast Asian" after all.
Tucked into its website's source code, I found the names of two of China's biggest data center companies, plus a few other details I doubt Trump wants you looking at...
https://t.co/CXlFX3qozK
Getting Too Close to Trump Was a Mistake
Nick Clegg: “Over the past week, following MAGA’s significant losses in the midterms, I have been asked the same questions again and again: How could Silicon Valley have gotten it so wrong? Why did tech leaders not anticipate the...
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Republicans have introduced a federal ‘catch kit’ bill that would require women to sift thru their blood to separate pregnancy remains from “other solid waste,” put it in a “brightly colored” bag labeled “HUMAN FETAL REMAINS,” and bring their doc.
It’s fucking deranged
@MHPoison1 Can we just make it clear that the only reason this woman fucked that nasty old geezer is because she is a fucking spy and that is literally her assignment??? It’s not love. It’s tradecraft.
@AGToddBlanche not only is irredeemably unprincipled, morally obtuse, and stunningly corrupt, but he is also unbearably stupid. He will be an eternal disgrace to the bar, and will serve as an everlasting example to all legal practitioners of what not to become. And this has nothing to do with politics
The story keeps getting crazier. To recap everything that has been reported so far:
- The US intelligence community discovered that Jensen Huang, the CEO of the largest company in the world, was sleeping with Alice Huang, a Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed. (FT)
- Multiple independent investigations have concluded that Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, which helps Chinese companies access AI chips or circumvent export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg)
- The US intelligence community also concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. (NYT)
- The intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year. (FT)
- Over the last year, Jensen Huang has repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips. @BISgov has done so, not only by permitting the export of H200 chips to China, but also not enforcing export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia.
- Although @CommerceGov leadership was presumably briefed on this information by the U.S. intelligence community, @BISgov has taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia.
- Megaspeed remains a preferred cloud partner of Nvidia, and continues to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips despite employing a Chinese spy who reportedly is romantically engaged with the CEO of Nvidia.
- Tens of billions of dollars worth of AI chips have been exported to Southeast Asia this year alone, and Malaysia and Singapore are now two of the four largest importers of AI chips in the world.
What is going on here??? We need answers. The question of who gets the most advanced AI chips in the world is literally the defining strategic question of our time. And not only does it seem like the MSS may be directly influencing the debate on export controls in the United States, but also @CommerceGov is refusing to listen to the warnings of the IC on this issue. What is a POSSIBLE good explanation for why Megaspeed is still receiving chips? Why is there not a license requirement for AI chip shipments to all of Southeast Asia? This is beyond strange at this point.
The fallout from this story will be massive. Obviously, the motivations underpinning Nvidia’s policy views opposing export controls must now all be questioned. But also, how did @BISgov sit on this information and has still taken no actions? We need answers.
@gtconway3d I love Joe Biden with all my heart and would’ve voted for him a second time, but this sort of rising above/gentleman’s agreement bullshit is how we got Clearance Thomas. We need to punch them in the throat, not shake their hands. They are CRIMINALS.