Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by Infiniti20 on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:50AM
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I mean, did you hear Trump’s statement on 60 Minutes, where he said he called one of the leaders of the big AI companies, and told him he was going to jail? Given the current situation, who else could this apply to?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by acidphreak2k on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:09AM
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Things were pretty hostile with Dario there for a minute
Plus, as others have pointed out, the Nvidia board seems to have been preparing to back him up and ride out the story after his first carefully written apology/statement. But that changed after news of the second affair broke which means he may not have been candid with them and made the breach of trust unsalvageable.
Unfair or fair doesn't really enter into it, it's not his company anymore, he only owns ≈4% of it. Nvidia board/shareholders would have wanted to keep him running things if at all possible given his track record.
Evidently some straw broke the camel's back, but we don't know for certain whatever it's something that's been known publicly so far. It's high profile news because of Nvidia's size and prominence in the AI industry but he's far from the only founder to be pushed out of the company they founded because of a personal scandal.
The political argument doesn't really make sense to me considering Trump bent over backwards to defend him, right up until minutes before he resigned. And the admin seemingly avoided intervening for months after it became known to U.S. intelligence, even adding him back to the China trip after he was originally left off the roster.