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Apart from his direct family, who cares? Why is this an issue? It's 2026, we literally had a human child trafficking ring with multiple presidents involved and it didnt lead to anything or move the needle on stuff.

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The leader of the central company in the AI boom was compromised by a spy from the US’s biggest adversary while US and Chinese companies are in an AI arms race.

Would that count?

We have a sitting president who freely shares state secrets with dictators upon request. This seems rather high effort when they could’ve just asked nicely no? </s>

Is whataboutism really necessary?

the </s> is for sarcasm..

It isn't whataboutism if it's directly relevant to the point at hand (as opposed to attempting to distract from it). The question posed effectively amounted to "why is this particularly noteworthy compared to everything else of a vaguely similar nature that's been going on".

I know you are trying to make some point for your political team but if you look up what a fiduciary is then you will see why this would be a good thing and a way to avoid other legal issues. But I know, OMB and all that!

That president's board (US voters) just put him on a much shorter leash as a result. Actions, consequences, etc.

It’s an issue because for some reason the US intelligence agency decided to go public with this and then the newspapers started running with it.

This letter is just part of the ceremony of events that is expected to happen afterwards.

Probably more like the administration, given how they were briefed more than a year ago.

There’s been recent power spats (JD Vance’s tweet, Susie being replaced by Steve Bannon, and probably more infighting).

As much as I want to believe there’s greater 4D chess and motivation, I assign a modest probability to someone going “fuck it”, opening a massive short on NVDA, and then leaking it just for the love of insider trading. Rather than anything strategic or real.

Huh? CEO's private life has always always been a big deal. These were just a few cases the last few years alone:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/coldplay-kiss-c...

Jensen Huang's case is even more high profile because of the spying accusation.

You misunderstood what I meant, obviously the newspapers all cover these things when they become public. The difference is that this time, it’s an intelligence agency that went public with it (or someone leaked it from there), the spying angle is quite unique.

I'm a shareholder, and the fact that both the US government and Nvidia itself is going to investigate him is very, very bad. So yes, I care about it a lot because I'm probably going to lose a lot of money tomorrow!

This US Government investigating Jensen Huang will be an exercise in cotton balls and kid gloves.

Trump himself relaxed laws on chip exports to China.

P.S. If you have any other liquidity available, maybe 'buy the dip'?

It's an issue, but vastly over stated in the press.

Why does it matter that one of the key leaders of our aI strategy was having an affair with a Chinese spy while advising the president on our policy of selling chips to China?

The investors probably care. If you’ll lie to your wife to get laid, you might also lie to your investors to get paid.

Integrity matters for maintaining corporate secrets. Someone who is having an extramarital affair is a target for blackmail. Most of getting a security clearance is not lying.

> Why is this an issue?

She was also a Chinese spy.

> It's 2026, we literally had a human child trafficking ring with multiple presidents involved and it didnt lead to anything or move the needle on stuff.

He admitted to the affair. No one has admitted to being a pedo. Much less forgivable.

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