I like to think the delay is justified by the fact that IF you think in terms of 1800s tech, America is huge and it can take a while for horses to pull a wagon from sea to shining sea.

It's November 1860 and you just won your election to be the new Senator from Oregon. You have two months to get to DC. Can you do it? (Yes, you can do it in a "mere" 3-4 weeks thanks to rail. But before rail? No way two months is enough.)

The first thing will probably be to do something think of the children bullshit to ban local AI instances.

Are you seeing a lot of support for the "people should be forced to use a data center to run AIs, instead of being allowed to do it at home using solar power" position?

What I saw last week, is that "think of the children" means that no one should ever fucking ever let a Republican anywhere within ten feet of a child, rather than it meaning we need to give data centers a monopoly on running AI.

The RAM crisis is it. This is the high-water mark on suppressing competition. It was a clever move, but the consumer market isn't going to tolerate electronic gizmos and video games being expensive forever. As soon as someone decides they want money and opens another RAM factory, the AI companies are in trouble. They have this brief pre-Personal-Computer-Revolution situation going on like 1960s IBM, and the 1970s are coming to fuck their shit up.

Yo dawg, I heard you like DMCA, so I sent you a DMCA notice (Title 17 Section 512) about DMCA-prohibited circumvention (Title 17 Section 1201).

It was a direct report. That creates a very defined conflict of interest that is routinely spoken to in every corporate training ever.

CEOs cannot have conflicts of interest, and there was likely direct language in his contract to that. Checkmate.

Don't dip your wick in the company ink.

Rules for thee, not for meee!

Same as it ever was.

I'm thinking the chinese spy thing might also do so - that's a massive legal risk due to violation of export controls. Nvidia is on the hook for third party exports or "reexports", same as any other business who ships things that fall under export controls.

They got paid, and they were paid to not look too carefully. And the US Government takes a dim look on that and doesn't brook any bullshit excuses. Or, at least, they used to less than a year ago - Applied Materials got rung up for about a quarter billion in civil fines for reexport of semiconductor equipment in February. Corporate officers who are found to willingly violate can get up to 20 years in prison. The laws state that it can be fines of over $300k *per violation* and apparently Megaspeed was buying and reexporting billions worth of Nvidia products, but that doesn't go as far as it used to I guess (har har).

The simpler explanation along the same lines: there was an active investigation going on at the United States Department of Commerce into this, and that investigation was yanked over to DoJ where nothing happened.

Who's to say that someone at Commerce had enough of that shit, and after the election results saw who is going to be holding committee gavels in January and got a big case of the fuck-its and leaked investigation details, including memos from Marco Rubio about it, to the New York Times?

That's "why now" and it's far more believable than some other "deep state" horseshit. A concerned citizen, being fed up with shit being swept under the rug about actual lawbreaking, deciding to overturn the game board. Not like it's the first time.

Whatabout Trump? Really?

Guess what - we're stuck with that guy. Nvidia's board is not stuck with this guy. Why is everyone ok with rich assholes breaking rules? Why are you making such apologistic twaddle comments?

The board is meeting, and they will fire this guy, because he can't keep it in his pants while also keeping that problem from being a public problem. And it became a very public problem.

I'm honestly surprised that more "key man" contracts don't have protective clauses about this kind of thing, specifically to deter extortion / blackmail. And now Nvidia may be on the hook for investor lawsuits for covering this shit up, to say nothing about the United States Congress crawling up their ass and tossing subpoenas everywhere trying to see if they can drench a cabinet member in the fallout for political points.

(If you have never worked with export-license controlled technology, the source company is on the hook even for 3rd party transfers. This is going to get ugly for them, and that's before the second affair with a subordinate)

So you think that they should just put up with this shit because other shitty companies also put up with shitty behavior from shitty people?

Is that where we're really at?

And the Wall Street Journal says the board is having an emergency meeting as soon as today.

Gee, what do you think they have to talk about?

... and he'll be doing it without the golden parachute. This would be a "for cause" firing, meaning no severance and no vesting of outstanding shares / options. We'll mail you your shit.

Will be interesting to see if Nvidia actually upholds their stated policies or makes exceptions for the asshole at the top.

Now THAT would be a gymnastics feat.

So you're just making apologistic excuses for someone being weak and breaking his vows to the person that should mean the most to him.

This tells us plenty about your own character.

A "no" is a "no" regardless of frequency if you actually care about the vow you made to your partner. Fuck off with your apologism and billionaire ball chortling. My guess is that you would say the same for pop music stars and professional athletes?

A VOW IS A FUCKING VOW.

And yet, here we are with ample evidence that the opposite of what you say is true. Not only do you get to, but it seems very commonplace.

If you have to ask the question, the Chinese spy whores don't care about you.