Jay Hart 🌈 Pronouns: soo wee

New article from The Information is mad. Turns out Jensen's mistress leveraged her access to him to help move ~240k export-controlled chips to China (!). Just to back up: Century Litong was founded by the sister of Alice (the mistress and alleged spy) in 2023. Alice had zero AI background but got credibility by telling everyone she could always get chip supply through her contacts in and around Nvidia. She bragged that Jensen celebrated her birthday every year with dinner / gifts, and posted photos of them together on WeChat. Within 4 months Litong was a Nvidia 'preferred cloud partner' giving it priority access to chips (which it still has today!). And 2 people who know Alice say while involved with Litong she helped move about 240,000 export-restricted chips into China, mostly H100s and H200s. For scale that's more than double the number of H100s in xAI's Colossus. Apparently a business contact described Litong as the place to get any chip the US gov had banned and some of the chips ended up with Alibaba and Tencent. Asked detailed questions, Nvidia didn't deny anything specific, it just gave a generic statement that it sells through partners and its due diligence has led to prosecutions. (If there's more stuff like this the pressure on Jensen to resign might get really serious. How can he possibly work with the incoming Congress?)