phil beisel

Western Lensman Verified account @WesternLensman · 14h

Scott Galloway says he owned a Tesla, but sold it because of Elon.

"Not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story."

He's gone from suggesting Elon be executed to telling stories of taking dumps in a car he owned because it was made by Elon's company.

This is a broken, deranged and utterly toxic individual.

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phil beisel Verified account @pbeisel · 7h

easier to read version:

Basically, Jensen Huang, the guy who runs Nvidia, the company that makes the chips virtually every AI company on earth needs, just sent an email to his entire company admitting he cheated on his wife.

And that came right after The New York Times reported that US intelligence believes a woman who got close to him was secretly passing information to the Chinese government.

To understand how we got here, you have to go back to June 2024.

That's when a Chinese businesswoman named Alice Huang, who also goes by Huang Le (and isn't related to Jensen; they just share a last name), was photographed at a party in Taipei sitting right next to him.

About a year later, her company, a small Singapore-based firm called Megaspeed that almost nobody had heard of, reportedly arranged a deal to buy around $2 billion worth of Nvidia chips. That's an extraordinary amount of money for a company that small. The Times pointed out that it was an unusual amount of business for a firm like that, and people were already questioning where all those chips were really going.

Nvidia looked into it and said everything checked out. So, for a while, that's where things stood.

Then came October 29.

The Times reported that US intelligence had concluded Alice was passing information to Beijing. And this wasn't some new discovery. Trump had reportedly been briefed about it roughly a year earlier.

The officials involved apparently believed Jensen had no idea what she was up to.

But here's the strange part: nobody ever told him.

There's something called a defensive briefing, where counterintelligence officials essentially pull someone aside and say, "Hey, a foreign government may be targeting you. Be careful."

Jensen never received one, even though the government was apparently continuing to monitor her.

So you have the head of arguably the most important AI chip company in the world potentially being targeted by a foreign intelligence operation, and the people who knew about it never warned him.

Then the denials started.

Nvidia said the Megaspeed allegations had already been investigated and debunked the previous year. China's foreign ministry called the report baseless. And Jensen said the business with Megaspeed was completely normal, just another customer buying chips like any other customer.

But Congress wasn't letting it go.

Three House Republicans who lead national security committees asked Jensen to come in and explain himself in a closed-door briefing. In other words, a private meeting away from the public and the cameras.

Then, on a Sunday, seemingly out of nowhere, Jensen sent an email to every single employee admitting that he had been unfaithful to his wife. He said it had hurt her and their children, and that nothing excused what he had done.

He didn't say who the affair was with, but you can imagine where everyone's mind went.

Shortly afterward, Nvidia's board, the group responsible for overseeing the CEO, announced it was establishing an independent committee, with outside lawyers, to investigate.

At the same time, the board said it had no reason to believe any national security secrets or company secrets had been compromised and that it continued to have confidence in Jensen.

A company spokesperson then said none of this would slow Nvidia down and that Jensen would continue running the company without interruption.

So, basically, you have a suspected Chinese intelligence asset who got close to the CEO, a $2 billion chip deal, a president who reportedly knew about the situation, a CEO who was never warned, a confession about an affair, an independent investigation, and a company insisting everything is fine.

That's pretty much where Nvidia is tonight.

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Elon Musk Verified account @elonmusk · 1d

I want to be José

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