Trump Backs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Amid Chinese Spy Affair Investigation (apnews.com) 97
President Donald Trump says the FBI is investigating Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with a woman alleged by U.S. intelligence to have gathered information for Beijing. "I know the FBI is looking into it in terms of something else, and I think that he'll be in good shape," Trump said at a White House briefing. The Associated Press reports: Trump suggested the extraordinary step of directly involving himself in a counterintelligence investigation, a sign of his friendly relationship with Huang and the possible geopolitical stakes. "I did speak to him today just to see if he's feeling all right, how you're doing," Trump said. "He said he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy."
Trump is slated to meet next week with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Shenzhen, China, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, but he was noncommittal about bringing up the situation with Xi. "No, I don't think so," Trump said. "I mean, maybe. I'm sure President XI will ask me about it. I just know Jensen very well. I just think he's a very honorable man." Nvidia has launched its own independent investigation into whether Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. Meanwhile, China has denied the allegations. "The so-called Chinese spy allegation is unsubstantiated. It is nothing but smears against China," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said during a regular news briefing Monday.
Further reading: Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention
Trump is slated to meet next week with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Shenzhen, China, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, but he was noncommittal about bringing up the situation with Xi. "No, I don't think so," Trump said. "I mean, maybe. I'm sure President XI will ask me about it. I just know Jensen very well. I just think he's a very honorable man." Nvidia has launched its own independent investigation into whether Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. Meanwhile, China has denied the allegations. "The so-called Chinese spy allegation is unsubstantiated. It is nothing but smears against China," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said during a regular news briefing Monday.
Further reading: Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention
I thought Huang was a "not evil" guy (Score:2, Troll)
And then Trump said he's an honorable man. There goes that. I wonder how much World Liberty Financial he's bought.
Re: I thought Huang was a "not evil" guy (Score:1)
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Let's release the un-redacted Epstein files and compare the number of Hollywood elite, billionaires, and politicians. There are even some notable people on the list that are in all three groups. Hollywood doesn't have an exclusive claim on sexual misconduct and it isn't the Democrats hiding the list.
Release the damn Epstein files and let America see the true criminals.
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Ah yes, TDS. The inability to ever accept any criticism of your idol.
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Ah yes, TDS. The inability to ever accept any criticism of your idol.
That's not how TDS works, Trump Derangement Syndrome is the inability to look at things rationally, instead injecting Donald Trump into all issues, large and small.
The irrational support of Donald Trump, or, if you prefer, "The inability to accept any criticism of your idol." (Donald J Trump), would be properly classified as "MAGA"
Re:I thought Huang was a "not evil" guy (Score:4, Funny)
Sorry, but that *is* how it works - you're so deranged that you can't see 47 stripping the assets of the US. I'd say "your tax dollars", but you're probably a Russian troll.
MDS: MAGA Derangement Syndrome: "who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?" "You!!!"
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Ah yes, TDS. The inability to ever accept any criticism of your idol.
That's not how TDS works, Trump Derangement Syndrome is the inability to look at things rationally, instead injecting Donald Trump into all issues, large and small.
The irrational support of Donald Trump, or, if you prefer, "The inability to accept any criticism of your idol." (Donald J Trump), would be properly classified as "MAGA"
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a pejorative coined by Trump supporters to paint his critics in a negative light. However, the irony is that the people throwing around accusations of TDS often exhibit more symptoms of derangement than the original targets. So, while TDS was envisioned as a MAGA weapon, it is now turning around to be a criticism of MAGA itself. As with many American terms, the originators of the term don't get to dictate its popular usage.
Of course, TDS is also Jon Stewart's show. That's t
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*you're
I'd expect nothing but bad grammar from someone living in Russian and posting as an American. Enjoy your TDS, retard.
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Even if it has to be a workplace thing, and wouldn't be the same with some sort of heavy-mutual-NDA escort, there have to be more than a few AI lunatics who want him to be their accelerationist daddy sprinkled across areas Nvidia can actually export to.
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So you're just making apologistic excuses for someone being weak and breaking his vows to the person that should mean the most to him.
This tells us plenty about your own character.
A "no" is a "no" regardless of frequency if you actually care about the vow you made to your partner. Fuck off with your apologism and billionaire ball chortling. My guess is that you would say the same for pop music stars and professional athletes?
A VOW IS A FUCKING VOW.
Welcome to "Whose grift is it anyway" (Score:1)
I really miss the rule of law and not having roving masked gangs murdering people in the street.
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"For Huang is an honourable man
And so are they all, all honourable men."
Someone (Score:5, Funny)
Will someone please give Trump a Junior G-man badge and a toy police car to keep him out from underfoot until nap time?
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Like Nixon giving Elvis a DEA badge. One of the most prolific pill poppers
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Mostly, but Elvis didn't dodge the draft.
Re:Someone (Score:5, Funny)
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TDS = Trump Denial Syndrome. He's a moron ruining the entire world by starting stupid oil wars.
Re:Someone (Score:5, Insightful)
Speaking as a European observer I see that Trump's actions have killed a lot of people and put many other peoples lives in danger. Of course we feel a bit deranged about that. I do hope all good Americans, on either side of the political isle can get that monster out of power as soon as possible.
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You are a sad fiend ruining slashdot with your juvenile TDS postings.
The guy who invented the term TDS turned out to be a pedo who tried to rape a child. Are you using it because of your well-known love for child rape?
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Trump suggested the extraordinary step of directly involving himself in a counterintelligence investigation, a sign of his friendly relationship with Huang and the possible geopolitical stakes. "I did speak to him today just to see if he's feeling all right, how you're doing," Trump said. "He said he had absolutely no idea that the person in question was a spy."
Seriously, where did Trump "(involve) himself in a counter-intelligence investigation"?
Trump is a Billionaire.
Huang is a Billionaire.
Professionally and personally they travel in the same circles.
Huang is being investigated, Trump reached out to him directly (not the investigating bodies, the subject of the investigation), and asked his friend how he is doing given recent events. Oh, and then he went and told reporters he had done just that. Exactly where is the "evidence" that he involved himself in the inv
Re: Someone (Score:3)
Lol you said Trump has friends
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"Huang is being investigated, Trump reached out to him directly (not the investigating bodies, the subject of the investigation), and asked his friend"
fuck this posting delay on desktop is so stupid, only the absolute lowest-wits need 20 seconds to think of something to say on this turd
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Best of the three jokes but I was hoping for more. A previous Huang story was quite productive of Funny.
Trump is playing this coyly or Tillerson was right (Score:5, Informative)
"I'm sure President XI will ask me about it." -- Uhh, no... He won't. The balls on this president... pretending everyone will just honestly report everything to him.
Is this act all some 5-D chess game still? Or is he really just that stupid - a "fucking moron" (his own former Sec. of State called him that - not me)? The president of the United States just can't be that dumb... If he is... we are skating on very thin ice.
Re:Trump is playing this coyly or Tillerson was ri (Score:5, Insightful)
The president of the United States just can't be that dumb... If he is... we are skating on very thin ice.
Yes, he is that dumb, and there's no "if" about it. You might want to put on a wet-suit, grab a snorkel, and hope you don't die of hypothermia.
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To scuba-dive in a body of water covered with ice, you'd need a dry-suit [wikipedia.org] not a wet-suit.
A wet-suit would not slow down hypothermia for very long. And I wouldn't want to skate in either one.
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People definitely use 7mm wetsuits (hooded, with gloves) in icey water.
I wouldn't want to skate in one, but a dry suit would be even worse.
Snorkel of course is a complete non-starter in those conditions.
At least he's not talking about his ass. (Score:2, Offtopic)
Jensen's ass is kinda mid.
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So you don't recognize the difference between China and Taiwan.
This oversight completely invalidates any opinion you might have tried to express, and just shows you to be a monumental idiot.
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^ Xibot
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One is the Peoples Republic of China and the other is the Republic of China. The Republic of China did start adding (Taiwan) to official documents in 2005. For example, this government page about President Lai delivers 2026 National Day Address, https://english.president.gov.... [president.gov.tw]
The Nvidia Factories and a Quick Taiwan Overview (Score:5, Informative)
If you search for nvidia factory [google.com] on Google Maps, the only locations are in India and Taiwan.
You can learn more about the China and Taiwan relationship here [harvard.edu], which will give you a light historical review, such as that there were some Taiwanese generations who spoke Japanese.
The Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis [wikipedia.org], where China's military drills are used as shows of force intended to deter what the PRC perceives as US meddling in its internal affairs, is an ongoing effort to force reunification similar to Hong Kong.
The US sells weaspons to Taiwan and long has officially not stated it as a independant country for the purpose of relations with China, although the US website dropped wording on not supporting Taiwan independence [abc.net.au] so things can change.
Couldnâ(TM)t help but comment? (Score:1)
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Jensenâ(TM)s ... Like⦠heâ(TM)s ... Trumpâ(TM)s âoeendorsementâ ..
Can somebody buy Jarjar a universal translator, or at least teach him how to set up keyboard encodings?
Also...
hang up and drive
Re: Couldnâ(TM)t help but comment? (Score:1)
Birds of a feather (Score:4, Interesting)
Huang, like Trump, has long been known as a demanding, perfectionist boss, prone to abusing employees. https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/2... [cnbc.com] Further, he gloats in this characterization, apparently believing that you have to be like this to "win,"
I disagree completely. When you treat employees like people, they will respond by giving you far more of themselves, than when you coerce them.
But disagreements aside, it does make sense that the two of them (Huang and Trump) see the world in a similar way.
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If D.Trump + I.Trump is ok, J.Huang + A.Huang is ok too.
Leather jacket has all the signs of the dude looking for own island.
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Being in the right place at the right time is a factor, to be sure. But that's not enough to turn a regular person into a billionaire. If you or I were in that spot at that time, we would not have magically become billionaires. Billionaires don't just "strike it rich." They live, eat, and breathe the desire for wealth. Everything they do is focused on that quest. They sacrifice literally everything else to achieve it. It's not a coincidence that so many extremely wealthy people are also absolute scoundrels,
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He's made a few very good calls, and also has benefited greatly from his competitors being quite mind bogglingly incompetent.
Deep learning went big in 2012. NVidia called it right with cuda and then with CUDNN in 2014. But it's 20-fucking-26 and we still have this shitshow:
https://interconnectd.com/foru... [interconnectd.com]
AMD and Intel are still tooling around dicks in hand trying to segment their nonexistent market share. Random people have got it working on a much wider range of intel and AMD GPUs using things like OpenCL
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But it's 20-fucking-26 and we still have this shitshow:
https://interconnectd.com/foru... [interconnectd.com]
AMD and Intel are still tooling around dicks in hand trying to segment their nonexistent market share. Random people have got it working on a much wider range of intel and AMD GPUs using things like OpenCL and Vulkan shaders. And yet neither of these two multi-hundred-billion dollar companies has the wherewithal to make their shit just work.
Fully confirm your assessment here. Bought an Intel Arc B580 last year in hopes of doing AI inference on a standard PC running Ubuntu Linux. It never worked, regardless of what I did, and I say this after 30 years of experience with linux both privately and in my job. Whatever I compiled according to instructions either crashes or just doesn't recognize my card. Yes, you read that correctly: Intel's software didn't recognize my Intel B580, which is shown correctly by lspci.
These crashes are later addressed
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I could kick myself in the nuts for not getting a 3060 back then.
Now THAT would be a gymnastics feat.
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I was expecting your linked article to talk about Huang going around hitting employees with sticks or something, given your characterization of "abusing" employees. Turns out that is not the case.
Horrendous! How can an employer just expect that employees perform?? Worse,
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Oh, well, if he put on a display then surely we can believe every word of it literally, after all, he's an executive.
Especially if some guy from Trinity Business School who hasn't actually talked to any employees with complaints is defending him in an interview with CNBC.
Are you a complete fucking moron? Wait, wait, no, don't answer that.
Re:Birds of a feather (Score:4, Insightful)
"Task-oriented" is a euphemism here. What it really means is that, if you work for Huang, you were just a cog in a machine. If you didn't get your task done on time, and on budget, it didn't matter whether you did your best to get it there, you still failed. Maybe you didn't spend enough of your evening hours at the office.
The article also called his leadership "demanding" and "cutthroat."
There will always be people who believe the hype, following the mirage of promised wealth, who will follow this kind of dictatorial leader. It's not surprising that he has found people who will submit to him.
If you think that's the kind of company you want to work for, please go for it. As for me, I want my work to matter, and I want to be treated with respect, not like a cog in a machine.
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Huang, like Trump, has long been known as a demanding, perfectionist boss, prone to abusing employees. [...] apparently believing that you have to be like this to "win," [...] I disagree completely. When you treat employees like people, they will respond by giving you far more of themselves, than when you coerce them.
just a little contrarian jab: presumably, you get more out of people than trump/huang and your business empire reflects this.
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People like Trump and Huang would like you to think that's true, while all the time they feed at the trough of blatant payola. You think these guys are just innocent and shrewd negotiators? No, not even close. Huang didn't get Trump to make exceptions to export restrictions, out of sympathy for the plight of the needy Chinese people.
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Members of Congress don't get security clearances or undergo formal background checks. If they're on certain committees, they have a need to know, and they're expected to keep secret information secret or lose their committee membership and possibly be expelled from Congress. On rare occasions, the entire Congress gets briefed in closed session on classified topics.
Re:Exhausting (Score:5, Informative)
From Yahoo Finance: Trump’s Nvidia Stock Purchases: Financial disclosures revealed that Donald Trump purchased between $500,000 and $1 million (with some reports noting up to several million) in Nvidia stock around the same timeframe his administration weighed key technology and China policy decisions. The Trump Organization and White House have maintained that Trump's assets are managed in a blind trust by his children with no conflicts of interest.
From the Tax Policy Center: The Trump administration allowed Nvidia and AMD to resume or license certain AI chip exports to China (such as H20 and H200 series chips), under an arrangement where the companies reportedly share a percentage (such as a 25% or 15% cut/fee) of those China revenues with the U.S. government—an arrangement criticized by legal and policy experts as a quasi-export tax.
Also: Nvidia donated $25 million toward the planned White House ballroom project associated with President Donald Trump (that we know about).
el Bunko is above corruption like a brick is above the Sargasso Sea (to reuse a Douglas Adams quip). el Bunko believes Putin and Emperor Xi are honorable as well.
Re:Exhausting (Score:5, Informative)
Just remember that Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm because he was concerned about a conflict of interest.
[Ben Stein voice] (Score:3)
Trump Backs Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Amid Chinese Spy Affair Investigation
Anyone surprised by this? Anyone? Anyone?
Bueller? Bueller?
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and then she will spend it all on propping up anti-AI legislation
We can only hope...
He knows its a scam (Score:4, Insightful)
As long as the US State Department is letting the "Chinese Spy" stay in the US we need to question the narrative
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As long as the US State Department is letting the "Chinese Spy" stay in the US we need to question the narrative
I think you folks needed to start questioning the narrative a LONG time before this latest scandal popped up. If enough people had done so then the country might not have lost the goodwill of most of the world.
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The spy's whereabouts is unknown, at least to the public. Rumor is she was last spotted in Singapore.
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Wrong thread, bro (and wrong)
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Yep. speaking as a European observer I would be happy to see Trump hung, drawn and quartered and his head put on a spike by the Reflecting Pool. A fitting and for such a murderous traitor, like the good old days he would so much like to see us return to.
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Europe is a shadow of its former self. Mighty empires indeed; you can't even keep Muslims from raping your women, yet you wish to lecture us Americans for Trump? Hypocritical does not begin to cover it.
A little racist? (Score:2)
When dealing with fallout from an affair, Trump endorsements are precisely the wrong kind of help.
Why are we even listening to this guy (Score:2)
no surprise (Score:1)
Proof of innocence (Score:2)
You people think Jensen's security team didn't know she was a potential spy? He probably knew and just wanted to see just how much she loves her country Team America style.
Instead of criticising you should be applauding how much that woman loves her country. Allegedly it was above and beyond the call of duty!
Wrong subject (Score:1)
Much more interesting thing to do math on:
Is this woman the most expensive prostitute in human history?
Re: Wrong subject (Score:2)
That's melanoma. She cost US a lot.
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I was looking for comparisons to other historic whores tanking great men.
Ironically, the GOAT in this female dominated field, like in all other fields is a man. His actions led to destruction of a massive nation.