Nvidia CEO is in Congress’ sights after spy scandal
Another is for shareholders to make you, but I’d expect Nvidia’s shares to regain Monday’s losses — relatively muted by the standards of “our CEO had an affair with a Chinese spy” — by week’s end.
Key points
- “Whether it’s my subcommittee or another, there needs to be a really penetrating, comprehensive investigation of all the possible compromises of our intelligence that may have occurred, but also the reasons that Donald Trump is so high on the head of Nvidia,” Blumenthal added.
- Corporate chiefs today are more replaceable (and replaced) than ever, as the job has come to hinge more on handling constituencies of investors, regulators, and us in the media than on mastery of any particular corporate engine room.
- Singular and problematic frontmen like Huang and Elon Musk — and to a lesser, but more sex-scandal-germane degree, AMC’s Adam Aron — are the exceptions, and put their boards in a bind.
Is he the indispensable force behind the world’s most valuable company, as Nvidia chronicler Stephen Witt suggested Monday, or an able salesman of a sought-after product that, by now, sells itself?
Additional details
- “We’re going to work hard to make sure that those provisions make it into the final version,” Jeffries told reporters, adding: “We’re going to need a full briefing specifically as it relates to the Nvidia issue, so we can all get to the bottom of what happened.” The chief authors of the Senate-passed export controls plan, Sens.
- Chris Coons, D-Del., the incoming Foreign Relations Committee chair, said he wants a probe “to determine whether our national security was compromised.” “We need answers about the relationship between AI billionaires and the Trump administration, who’s making these decisions, and who’s really got their hand on the wheel,” added Coons.
- Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., affirmed their proposal in a joint statement that said the Commerce Department also needs to immediately close any export control loopholes.
- The News Nvidia and its embattled CEO can add Washington to their list of huge problems.
- Huang is poised to face Hill investigations into his knowledge of the woman at the center of the scandal, Alice Huang, as well as his relationships with the White House and Commerce.
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