China on Thursday accused the United States of “fabricating spy narratives” to justify a technology “blockade”, stepping up its pushback against reports that the woman Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with was a Chinese intelligence asset.
China on Thursday accused the United States of “fabricating spy narratives” to justify a technology “blockade”, stepping up its pushback against reports that the woman Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with was a Chinese intelligence asset.
I think the easiest argument is that you don’t need a grand Chinese conspiracy to explain mutually aligned self interest…
Jenson Huang has been in support of open-weight AI development and by extension selling to any and everyone both on a personal philosophical level and from a basic profit-driven perspective as the CEO of the company selling the mining tools for the gold rush.
Nvidia as a basic profit-seeking firm pursuing a profit and sustainability growth strategy has a vested interest in seeing Nvidia chips in Chinese data centers and having Chinese AI companies using Nvidia chips over huawei or someone else. Again, they are the people selling the mining tools for the gold rush. Of course they want to be the main supplier in the biggest gold rush markets with the deepest pockets.
And Trump’s lifestream is sustained by McDonalds and grifting.
Everything that has taken place is basically exactly what these people have wanted to do with or without this person in place.
Maybe she’s an asset, maybe she’s not. But it feels like a bit of a red herring that I am not sure what I am supposed to do with it if it is the case she’s an asset? Other then be a shocked and horrified peasant that will not question when the US government moves to intensify the Cold War posture and put more protectionism around US AI and chip manufacturing that moves us closer to a cartelification of the tech manufacturing and AI industry that all the AI ceo’s want to happen.