Tech World Debates Jensen’s Exit | Diet TBPN
TBPN hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays look at the fallout from Jensen Huang resigning as Nvidia CEO and leaving the board, and why some think he could return. They also cover a TSMC data leak and Chinese AI chips.
The gist
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Coogan calls Jensen's exit the biggest tech story of his lifetime and says other companies are delaying launches because their news won't break through.
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Wired reports that an internal Nvidia suggestion box post drew more than 1,600 comments, several asking the board to bring Jensen back.
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Coogan says a founder-mode CEO mainly breaks committee deadlock, making gut calls that are right about 80% of the time but nearly always speed things up.
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A TSMC breach put about 46,000 employee records, including national ID numbers and bank details, up for sale for three Bitcoin, around $220,000.
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Coogan says Chinese labs like DeepSeek likely trained on banned Blackwell chips and needed fewer of them, since copying a leading model takes less trial-and-error compute.
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