I honestly don't think this should be even a question at this point. This is systemic and organized. The pattern of the takedown is recognizable as well. That NYT and WSJ are teamed up is also informative.
I wonder: Is Jensen Huang the Jack Ma of the capitalist world?
https://www.ft.com/content/1fe0559f-de6d-490e-b312-abba0181d...
https://wallhop.io/https://www.ft.com/content/1fe0559f-de6d-...
I see 3 potential orchestrators behind this hit job/"leak":
1. A foreign state actor, adversary of US (like China)
2. Ideological fundamentalists, either:
- Anti-AI/anti-capitalism Marxist types
- People that want to see AI nationalized or brought fully under Government control
- Dem official (elected or unelected) that wants to bring down the economy while it's run by the other side
3. A "China hawk" type inside the current Administration that wants to use this scandal to push legislation to track by GPS all SOTA chips and have a remote kill-switch controlled by Washington
I think either option 1 or option 3 are more likely, will be interesting what we'll find out more in the next weeks.
Terrible reporting all around this situation, especially by NYT and WSJ. Then all the other news sources repeated the same nonsense.
- Singapore govt issued a statement clarifying that WSJ fabricated facts. [1]
- It's been clarified now by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology that there is no convincing evidence that Alice Huang is a spy. [2]
- The statement that Jensen called the new interim CEO ‘a deer in the headlights’ actually hurts NVDA stock, as it lowers the confidence of investors in her and I'm sure WSJ knew that before posting this speculative article with no cited source.
This looks like a hit job on Jensen and Nvidia. NYT and WSJ have spewed false facts with no credible sources (just "anonymous" sources) to discredit Jensen as much as possible and hurt NVDA stock. Jensen probably cheated on his wife, but mere cheating is not grounds to remove a very competent leader from the company he created.
[1] https://www.mha.gov.sg/media-room/newsroom/clarification-sta...
[2] https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2121070881258504395