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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 89 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Who cares at this point? I care more that they were investigating the spy thing a year ago and the trump administration killed it.

Edit: Article on subject: https://unwall.app/www.nytimes.com/2026/11/09/business/economy/nvidia-megaspeed-investigation-huang.html

[–] protist@retrofed.com 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. This story has the potential to be huge. Now that all of media is aware of it, they're going to start pulling at threads.

Rough summary for others: Rubio straight up told Trump that Huang's girlfriend was a Chinese asset, Trump dismissed that and invited them both on Air Force One with him. Trump's old friend and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also dropped her company, Megaspeed, off any blacklists or investigations, and Nvidia sold them chips. All this is happening at the same time Trump is bellowing about how we can't regulate AI companies for fear of Chinese competition.

[–] teslekova@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This demonstrates, btw, how Trump is technically not a Russian agent, or a Chinese agent, or an Israeli agent... He is just very good at being bribed by organisations who bribe people for a living. You gotta bribe correctly, but if he's bribed, he is worth it.

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] teslekova@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

For the people who bribed him, oh yes. For the rest of us? Well, clearly we should have bribed him. If you're not bribing him you don't really exist.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wow, mirrors of Covid (where he basically killed the pandemic response team of GWB/Obama a few years before).

Dude breaks everything he touches.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

He also shut down the factory producing infertile screw worm flies

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Dude steals everything not bolted down.

[–] deeprlyeh@lemmus.org 7 points 1 day ago

The State Department and the Commerce.