Jensen Huang is out. What did China want from him?
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Today, we’re talking about the Jensen Huang scandal at Nvidia, which is developing so quickly that we had to do an emergency update of this intro minutes before publishing this episode — Huang just resigned from his position as CEO of Nvidia as news of his affairs, including with an alleged Chinese spy, threatened to engulf the company.
We’ll have more on that story as things develop. But just two days ago I talked to Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center, about the real heart of the scandal: what China would even seek to accomplish by having a spy so close to Jensen, and what the state of the US-China AI conflict really looks like, particularly from the Chinese point of view.
Read the full interview transcript on The Verge.
Links:
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns amid spy, affair scandals | The Verge
- It only takes a prick to pop a bubble | Vergecast
- Jensen Huang said ot have had relationship with Nvidia exec | NYT
- What could China get from Jensen Huang? | The Verge
- The US is winning the AI race. Jensen Huang could have blown it | The Verge
- The future of AI hinges on… Jensen Huang’s sex life? | The Verge
- Nvidia’s board has a history of letting Jensen Huang get his way | NYT
- Commerce Dept. inquiry halted after Nvidia intervention | NYT
- Rubio warned officials about Huang’s affair with Chinese spy | NYT
- China’s top spy agency recruited woman who targeted Huang | NYT
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