Jensen Huang Nvidia situation is rapidly becoming the biggest political scandal in years
Tom Bilyeu and his co-host run through the week's news, led by Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia and four theories on who wanted him out. They also cover a global Microsoft outage, a DC shooting, and Greta Thunberg.
The gist
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Bilyeu lays out four theories for Huang's resignation: a political hit job, China benefiting, big shareholders following the money, and Israeli espionage, which he dismisses.
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Bilyeu says the US should have throttled China's chip access just enough to keep it dependent, rather than pushing it to build its own.
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Microsoft blamed a network configuration change, and Bilyeu explains how retrying devices fed a loop that kept Outlook and Teams down across 74 countries.
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On the DC shooting and Greta Thunberg's backlash, Bilyeu argues violence is never the answer and urges people to focus on mechanism, not emotion.
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Bilyeu recommends reading Not Stolen, a book on European colonialism, as a challenge to critical theory, which he says has rotted people's brains.
"Getting people to understand how critical theory has taken over and rotted people's brains is absolutely critical, and I would love for some of you guys to join me in reading Not Stolen. I'd be so curious to hear your takes. That book is pretty inflammatory. I think people are..."
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