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anotherengineer | on: Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say
stop it!! he's already dead!!

in all seriousness though, what is going on? everything here feels well timed and coordinated. were the powers that be just waiting for US midterms to pass? is there any relationship to the anthropic IPO? my tin foil hat is going to be working overtime these next few days

vizzier | parent | next
Plenty of benign explanations without needing tinfoil

- The affair(s) were so badly hidden that they became obvious once one was exposed

- High profile CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world means a lot of eyes

- something akin to the Streisand effect keeps things in the news cycle

ribosometronome | root | parent
Yeah, hundreds of reporters suddenly being interested in the story after the initial news broke shines a lot more lights on things.
peter422 | parent | next
The initial story about the spy dropped on October 29th, before the midterms.

At that point it was probably just a matter of time until the rest came out.

reasonableklout | parent | next
I mean it’s just much more of a favorable political environment for the board to investigate Huang. And journalists know that if there’s smoke, there’s likely fire. So it seems like a pretty natural pile-on if anything.

It is kinda weird that Jensen decided to resign so quickly though. I would’ve expected a longer investigation period involving both the board and Congress.

sifdjfirjcndiei | parent
Democrats take charge IPO almost out the door Bubble about to pop

What people (and nations) would be able to come out clean in front of their audiences from the fallout of the above if the catalyst was Huang having an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, being interrogated by Warren, and the woke forcing him out of the company he built (whose interim CEO is female)

There’s a thread through all of that that props up a significant portion of Silicon Valley elite’s worldview…