Jensen Huang Admits to Affair With Alleged Chinese Spy | Diet TBPN
John Coogan and Jordi Hays react to reports that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted an affair with Alice Wang, a suspected Chinese spy. They discuss why it could wreck his credibility in Washington.
The gist
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Per Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, Wang went from state media journalist to running MegaSpeed, an Nvidia compute reseller with customers including Alibaba.
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The hosts call MegaSpeed's ownership chain, running through a British Virgin Islands vehicle and Singapore, a structure that couldn't raise a seed round.
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The hosts argue Huang's push to sell chips to China fits an older pro-export consensus, but the affair leaves him unable to advocate either way.
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Nvidia stock fell about 5% while the Nasdaq rose 2.5%, AMD jumped almost 13%, and a prediction market gave 31% odds Huang leaves before next July.
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Nvidia's board says it sees no sign secrets were compromised and has opened an independent probe, while Gavin Baker says Huang would never knowingly harm America.
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