Jensen Huang is out. What did China want from him?

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Today, we’re talking about the Jensen Huang scandal at Nvidia, which is developing so quickly that we had to do an emergency update of this intro minutes before publishing this episode.

Huang just resigned from his position as CEO of Nvidia as news of his affairs, including with an alleged Chinese spy, threatened to engulf the company.

We’ll have more on that story as things develop and we learn how Nvidia will restructure itself after Jensen — he had something like 60 direct reports, after all, and the entire AI financial ecosystem flows through the company. This is pure Decoder bait.

But just two days ago I talked to Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center, about the real heart of the scandal: What would China even seek to accomplish by having a spy so close to Jensen? And what does the...

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