It’s hillarious that supporting and enabling crimes against humanity is okay but putting your wee wee in the wrong wooha forces you to resign immediately.
TBH nVidia probably said “alright, fuck it, lets make the ethics a bigger story and maybe it will bury the legal issues we’re facing and stop the stock drop.”
Didn’t everybody know that for like…a while though? I mean, Gamers Nexus made a video on it like a year ago and it blew up. I doubt that’s news anymore.
What he did with her is again whatever. It’s the fact that she is connected to China and that might cause problems because of the export bans. Even if his relationship with her was platonic it would still be a problem.
“Meets with Chinese spy” is just as bad of a headline as " fools around with Chinese spy"
It probably wouldn’t be as big a deal if it were a platonic relationship. The reason the sex matters is that sex tends to lead to people making bad decisions. Also, the fact that it’s an affair matters because lying and sex in secret also is associated with bad decisions.
If he were in a platonic relationship with her but they were caught doing heroin together, that might also be a big deal because drugs also lead to bad decisions. Illegal drugs done in secret would be an even bigger deal.
If his wife has a problem with it he’s out billions of dolllars and may not get to see his kids much. Many people will do a lot of questionable shit to avoid that outcome
Rich dudes getting around a bit is expected, But Hwang a. gave a honeypot spy access to trade secrets (allegedly — though the company is taking this seriously) and b. in a second affair, fraternized with a lower-ranking officer of the company. (Companies notoriously don’t take these seriously, even when there’s evidence of duress, but this looks bad compounded with the spy thing, and highlights how he’s a security risk.)
Again, it is routine for c-suite officers to get a bit on the side, but indiscretion is seen as a symptom of liability. As the whole Ubisoft senior management sex ring debacle shows, to the company and investors it’s less about the scandal and more about its public visibility.
However, nVidia has been wanting to sell its state-of-the-art chips in Beijing since the beginning, creating a conspicuous conflict in the AI investment is national security because we have to beat China narrative. So I wonder if this figures into the honeypot story.
It’s hillarious that supporting and enabling crimes against humanity is okay but putting your wee wee in the wrong wooha forces you to resign immediately.
What a fucking world we live in.
Edit: Sorry for calling it a hole at first
The wee wee part is the cover up for Nvidia selling chips to China under the restrictions.
TBH nVidia probably said “alright, fuck it, lets make the ethics a bigger story and maybe it will bury the legal issues we’re facing and stop the stock drop.”
If Nvidia wasn’t in on it Huang (the Jensen half) was surely going to use it as his scapegoat for the 20% of sales that he knew were illegal.
Well that ship’s well off shore holding tiny people waving to you, eh?
Quite probable.
Didn’t everybody know that for like…a while though? I mean, Gamers Nexus made a video on it like a year ago and it blew up. I doubt that’s news anymore.
Oh, who is China bombing and starving daily?
They don’t give a shit about that. He made the stock price move the wrong direction and that is unforgivable.
But the stock went down because people care about him putting his wee wee in the wrong hole.
He opened the company up to legal issues. Banging a foreign spy as well as a direct report are both massive legal liabilities.
What he did with her is again whatever. It’s the fact that she is connected to China and that might cause problems because of the export bans. Even if his relationship with her was platonic it would still be a problem.
“Meets with Chinese spy” is just as bad of a headline as " fools around with Chinese spy"
It probably wouldn’t be as big a deal if it were a platonic relationship. The reason the sex matters is that sex tends to lead to people making bad decisions. Also, the fact that it’s an affair matters because lying and sex in secret also is associated with bad decisions.
If he were in a platonic relationship with her but they were caught doing heroin together, that might also be a big deal because drugs also lead to bad decisions. Illegal drugs done in secret would be an even bigger deal.
Oh hell no, as soon as there’s some sex in it the story sells. Suddenly it’s a gossip story too.
It does make for great entertainment, though.
If his wife has a problem with it he’s out billions of dolllars and may not get to see his kids much. Many people will do a lot of questionable shit to avoid that outcome
Line of organized capital must go up.
Fuck humans if line goes up. Fuck humans if line goes down.
Rich dudes getting around a bit is expected, But Hwang a. gave a honeypot spy access to trade secrets (allegedly — though the company is taking this seriously) and b. in a second affair, fraternized with a lower-ranking officer of the company. (Companies notoriously don’t take these seriously, even when there’s evidence of duress, but this looks bad compounded with the spy thing, and highlights how he’s a security risk.)
Again, it is routine for c-suite officers to get a bit on the side, but indiscretion is seen as a symptom of liability. As the whole Ubisoft senior management sex ring debacle shows, to the company and investors it’s less about the scandal and more about its public visibility.
However, nVidia has been wanting to sell its state-of-the-art chips in Beijing since the beginning, creating a conspicuous conflict in the AI investment is national security because we have to beat China narrative. So I wonder if this figures into the honeypot story.
I’m sorry, Ubisoft what, now?
yup, it’s real…if you thought Ubisoft couldn’t go any lower than their stock valuation…
One hole per wee wee, that’s the rule. I don’t make it up.