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    Before the next 3 people out him for their extramarital activities.

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    US President Donald Trump has called the Nvidia chief ‘an honorable guy’, while congressional leaders call for investigations into national security risks

    Honestly, never mind the scandal, I’d investigate Jenson just on this basis. Almost everyone that Trump has ever called “honorable” has had a skeleton hiding in their closet.

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    It’s hillarious that supporting and enabling crimes against humanity is okay but putting your wee wee in the wrong wooha forces you to resign immediately.

    What a fucking world we live in.

    Edit: Sorry for calling it a hole at first

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      The wee wee part is the cover up for Nvidia selling chips to China under the restrictions.

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      They don’t give a shit about that. He made the stock price move the wrong direction and that is unforgivable.

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          What he did with her is again whatever. It’s the fact that she is connected to China and that might cause problems because of the export bans. Even if his relationship with her was platonic it would still be a problem.

          “Meets with Chinese spy” is just as bad of a headline as " fools around with Chinese spy"

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          He opened the company up to legal issues. Banging a foreign spy as well as a direct report are both massive legal liabilities.

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      Rich dudes getting around a bit is expected, But Hwang a. gave a honeypot spy access to trade secrets (allegedly — though the company is taking this seriously) and b. in a second affair, fraternized with a lower-ranking officer of the company. (Companies notoriously don’t take these seriously, even when there’s evidence of duress, but this looks bad compounded with the spy thing, and highlights how he’s a security risk.)

      Again, it is routine for c-suite officers to get a bit on the side, but indiscretion is seen as a symptom of liability. As the whole Ubisoft senior management sex ring debacle shows, to the company and investors it’s less about the scandal and more about its public visibility.

      However, nVidia has been wanting to sell its state-of-the-art chips in Beijing since the beginning, creating a conspicuous conflict in the AI investment is national security because we have to beat China narrative. So I wonder if this figures into the honeypot story.

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    Not content with hoarding all the RAM in the world, Jensen is also hoarding all the girlfriends.

    This is why I’m single and RAMless

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        actually EDO is more expensive because of the retrogamers and not being made anymore. About 4x the price of DDR-400 for 128mb. They get you comin’ and goin’.

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    Nobody in his position turns tail like that, that quickly unless they have something serious they’re afraid of.

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      The Chinese honeypot and affair with the married VP is only the tip of the scandal.

      He’s been tied to allegations of supplying chips to China in violation of export controls. Possibly 20% of NVIDIAs earnings in the last few years may be attributed to these sales. Without protection from Trump he could be looking at jail time.

      This is bigger than people realize with out Jensen, the circular financing that has pumped the AI boom is going away. NVIDIA has underwritten a lot of deals and funding for Anthropic, Oracle, ChatGPT, etc. There may not be an appetite to support this kind of financing with the next exec.

      This could be the first domino in a chain that could wipe out this AI bubble we are in.

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      He was probably getting fired by the board otherwise, and I’m just guessing but there is probably a bigger penalty for being fired than stepping down.

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        That, and possibly a whole slew of other, more fucked up behavior, possibly also dragging others, and possibly the entire company down

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      That’s just how CEOs get fired, they want him gone and they want it done cleanly and he probably wants to keep some of his company shares. The alternative is he hangs around and he gets fired for real which is of no benefit to him.

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        (Conspiracy theory:)

        Yes, but this is way too fast and way too clean for 2026. I’m too far past even not wanting to know, and I’ve circled back to “my spidey bullshit-sense is tingling”. Like I bet it full on implicates some much darker cancer.

        Also, Nvidia isn’t just some job to him, this is entirely his baby. He founded Nvidia and ate 3dfx. You think the shame of having one affair… Two affairs… Three affairs… Is gonna shock him and set him straight and make him abandon ship?

        Nahh… It smells wayyy too off to me. He’s protecting something with a self sacrifice, not with shame or ethics. And I don’t think it’s just “Nvidia’s CEO is a cheater”. Like, I could be wrong, and I’d love to be. But, in 2026, we now know that people who are rich and powerful don’t just play by the rules and do the good, right things anymore. There’s some deeper shenanigans here, I can smell it.

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          Also, like, the affairs and one of them very clearly bypassing export controls were… well known about? Maybe not super publicly known or publicized, but it wasn’t a deeply held secret. Anyone who got curious and did 20 minutes of searching could find out about it.

          This is very obviously a public excuse to remove him because they don’t want to publicly explain the real reasons. Even the chip smuggling thing is probably an excuse.

          If I had to guess at the real reason, it’s because they see a collapse in demand for their chips coming, and ether cooler heads are pissed because his circular financing and other shenanigans have made this worse for Nvidia than it otherwise would have been, or hotter heads are pissed that he’s not willing to go even harder on shenanigans to keep things going longer.

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            This is very obviously a public excuse to remove him because they don’t want to publicly explain the real reasons.

            He must oppose a major decision. The chips are already used for killer drones so it must be something even darker.

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              could be opposing a major decision, or could be that he made a big bet on something and it fell through and they’re pissed over that.

              If it is opposing a decision, It could be something very mundane to normal people but catastrophic in the minds of shareholders.

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      Exactly how it works. He sold billions worth of GPUs to China under export restrictions, now he quits, still a billionaire, but Nvidia is absolved of any wrongdoing because it was the bad CEO and his affair. And people wonder why CEOs get paid so much (okay, this one just happened to also be one of the founders of the company and had stock).

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      Holy fuck he actually didn’t call him Tim Apple!

      And i do not think that Cook, who is sitting in a very comfortable position where they can profit from the AI boom, but still have a stable basis to return to if the bubble bursts, would like to take that potential bull ride of a job.

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      Trump truly only cares about bribes

      His big economic win is AI, and his primary foreign policy is beating China. Huang funneled top chips to China to the tune of billions of dollars. Literally the worst thing he could do for Trump’s goals, yet this is Trump’s response

      Guess those million dollar donations did what they were supposed to

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        His primary foreign economic policy is get money and bitches. No allegiance to anyone that doesn’t facilitate that.

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      They unironically should is that Tim runs Nvidia into the ground lol

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      I fail to see how this is gonna pop anything. The circular financing will continue uninterrupted.

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        If people divest from nvidia it will crash the whole market depending on scale. It doesn’t have to make sense. All that needs to happen is enough people get scared and sell that triggers more selloffs

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          Nvidia is down 14.25% YoY, 26.81% past 30 days, and only 4.82% of that can be attributed to the past 5 days.

          This has had relatively little impact on NVDA and less on the circlejerk as a whole, unfortunately.

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        mostly by having the market run out of money to shovel into the ai companies. which is already happening in parallel to this, it’s just difficult to tell how long it’s gonna take.

        afaik the anthropic ipo next week is the next potential trigger point

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    Damn. He left with a plastic bag in his hand. And a couple of billions richer, almost forgot that part

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      Oh don’t worry, I’m sure you could still six degrees him to child rape.

      AI companies that he’s artificially inflated due to handing out imaginary billions, which is given back to nvidia in GPU buys, which then goes out to another AI company, which comes back via GPU buys, etc etc etc without any actual, real money changing hands leads to sick fucks getting AI models to generate AI child porn, which leads to child rapists getting hot and bothered and going out and raping living breathing children.

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        He’s been at a table with the President and some others from his administration, so take that for however many degrees you want, but at most two.

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        Sorry, but that argument still sounds wayyy too much like “video games cause x”.

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        That last part is quite a claim. Is there some data to back it up, or is it more like a hypothesis?

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          It’s the old issue at the core of discussions about fictional sexual depictions of children in general. Some claim it can act as a harmless alternative outlet, others the opposite that it will encourage people to do actual harm.

          I’d be surprised if it was the latter given that similar claims (“violent video games cause violence”) have been proven to be bullshit, but to my knowledge there aren’t really any studies on it either (probably bc it’s hard to do).

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            Yeah, thats because you cant go out and cast fuckin fireball at a troll in real life.

            AI’s are trained on real images of real children to generate child porn, its completely realistic and exactly in line with all the other child porn these people are most likely viewing, except thanks to the AI they can sink into their disgusting fucking shit even further by tailoring every fucked up image to their fucked up wants. Theres no bullshit attempt to handwave it away as a drawing and that the character is actually a 9000 year old dragon or whatever other fucked up bullshit. It is unabashedly child exploitation material.

            Trying to compare it to video games is a disgusting attempt to distract and deflect.

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              The violent video games in questions are usually shooters and I could in fact shoot a gun at people and kill them in real life. I have no desire to do so and playing shooters isn’t changing anything about that.

              I agree the ethics of AI gen child porn are different from drawings bc of the technical background (plus if it’s too indistinguishable you could claim any real csam is just aigen) but that’s still a completely seperate argument from claiming it increases child exploitation. Which is something that I’d love to see data on but I don’t think it exists.

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    Steve from GamersNexus must be laughing his ass off right now, especially because the stream of GPUs into China wasn’t a very well kept secret thanks to him and his team. If things happen on low levels like buying single GPUs off of private citizens to move them to China, it would be pretty dense to believe that the chinese government doesn’t have a much bigger scheme running.

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      Why does anyone care if China is buying GPUs? Its a product sold across the planet, why shouldn’t they be able to buy them. Plus we got some open models from there.

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        People care because this technology was hyped up as the thing that will replace all workers. It was announced as both our salvation and our doom. That’s why it has a geopolitical dimension.

        All of this is fucking bullshit of course lol. Big Tech was out of ideas - the Metaverse is the bodily (or virtual?) manifestation of the idea drought that Silicon Valley was going though, and suddendly they get their hands on something that - on a glance - looks like intelligence.

        This is the largest scam the world has ever seen, and we all will pay for it - because our leadership wouldn’t listen when critics said that the Emperor had no clothes on.

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            I’m also not American. But just like 2008, the banks are deep in the swamp together with our AI friends. Regardless of where you are on the globe, we all will feel this.

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      The interest of the Chinese government align more on keeping the sanctions and force Chinese AI companies to support the internal chip industry