Tbh i do not understand the drama … not the first ceo to had affairs and shady deals, It feels more like the powers at be want to cut down Nvidia support to open models via removing the guy at the top due his liability with hot Asian girls but come on. Palantir had worst ceo for instance and nobody raises an eyebrow to name one
Political pressure given stuff like https://unemploymentlabs.com/checkpoint-forensics
Who the NVDA board wants answering questions in some inevitable hearings when the other side of all the money behind AI is trying to push for controls on Chinese models.
Edit: A little more context. Because it doesn't matter if Alice Huang is a Chinese spy. She's also held titles at Megaspeed, a Singapore based company that legitimately rents GPU time to Chinese model providers. The big money AI people would be pushing for more controls on that legit path also.
The problem is not that he had affairs in general, but that he had affairs with subordinates. That is not allowed by the company rules and US law.
Exactly. If on the other hand he would have been visiting an island to have 'affairs' with under age girls or boys, then there would be no consequences. The US law must be respected.
Yeah I have so much scandal fatigue, this is pretty D-tier.