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W.W. McClyde retweeted
1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.
This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
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The story keeps getting crazier. To recap everything that has been reported so far:
- The US intelligence community discovered that Jensen Huang, the CEO of the largest company in the world, was sleeping with Alice Huang, a Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed. (FT)
- Multiple independent investigations have concluded that Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, which helps Chinese companies access AI chips or circumvent export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg)
- The US intelligence community also concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. (NYT)
- The intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year. (FT)
- Over the last year, Jensen Huang has repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips. @BISgov has done so, not only by permitting the export of H200 chips to China, but also not enforcing export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia.
- Although @CommerceGov leadership was presumably briefed on this information by the U.S. intelligence community, @BISgov has taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia.
- Megaspeed remains a preferred cloud partner of Nvidia, and continues to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips despite employing a Chinese spy who reportedly is romantically engaged with the CEO of Nvidia.
- Tens of billions of dollars worth of AI chips have been exported to Southeast Asia this year alone, and Malaysia and Singapore are now two of the four largest importers of AI chips in the world.
What is going on here??? We need answers. The question of who gets the most advanced AI chips in the world is literally the defining strategic question of our time. And not only does it seem like the MSS may be directly influencing the debate on export controls in the United States, but also @CommerceGov is refusing to listen to the warnings of the IC on this issue. What is a POSSIBLE good explanation for why Megaspeed is still receiving chips? Why is there not a license requirement for AI chip shipments to all of Southeast Asia? This is beyond strange at this point.
The fallout from this story will be massive. Obviously, the motivations underpinning Nvidia’s policy views opposing export controls must now all be questioned. But also, how did @BISgov sit on this information and has still taken no actions? We need answers.
US intelligence agencies believe @Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had romantic relationship with alleged Chinese spy
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W.W. McClyde retweeted
He just can't, for the life of him, admit that Putin is in the wrong. He can trash his allies, threaten them, tariff them, mock and insult anyone and everyone, but never Putin.
It's almost as if the kompromat they have on him is groundbreakingly powerful.
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I’m gonna laugh hard if Steve Miller resigns in the wake of the 60 Minutes interview. Gonna also laugh if he doesn’t.
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Nov 8, 1942. The same morning two ships were destroyed trying to crash into Oran harbor, an old American destroyer pulled off the same trick in Morocco. And it worked.
To land General Patton's tanks in Morocco, the Americans needed a real port with docks and cranes. Besides Casablanca itself, the only one that could handle medium tanks was the small port of Safi.
So the Navy chose two old World War I destroyers, USS Bernadou and USS Cole. Their masts and funnels had been cut down to make them low and hard to see, and they were packed with assault troops.
The plan was simple and dangerous: in the dark, run straight into Safi harbor ahead of the main landing and put the soldiers ashore right on the docks.
At about 4:30 a.m. on Nov 8, Bernadou crept toward the harbor mouth. A French signal light challenged her. Then the French guns opened up.
Bernadou kept going. Her crew fired back, and the cruisers and battleship offshore joined in. She raced into the harbor under fire and ran herself right up onto the beach so her soldiers could jump off and storm the waterfront.
Cole came in behind her and landed her troops on the docks.
The soldiers quickly seized the port. Unlike at Oran, the French didn't have time to sabotage it. By that afternoon, Safi had surrendered.
Within days, tanks were rolling off ships at Safi's docks and heading north toward Casablanca.
Two harbor raids on the same morning. One ended in a slaughter. The other became one of the best-run operations of the whole invasion.
W.W. McClyde retweeted
A massive starling murmuration was captured flowing dynamically against a purple twilight sky. This mesmerizing phenomenon occurs because each individual bird constantly mirrors the speed and direction of its seven closest neighbors, allowing the flock to react instantly and move as a single, fluid entity.
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A fascinating look at how an NFL game was played — and televised — 56 years ago today
Cowboys at Giants
Frank Glieber and Frank Gifford on the call for CBS Sports from Yankee Stadium
November 8, 1970
Every time Texas wins, I feel like I just did 90 past a cop who was taking a leak in a bar ditch. #HookEm
W.W. McClyde retweeted
When you’re finally serious about fighting crime, you’re gonna want to take the oldest motherfucker you can find and team him up with the fattest motherfucker you can find.
Talking to a lot of people here since The Reckoning earlier this week, and nearly everyone says something like this. It's not so much that the GOP had nothing left in the bag so they were forced to fight from the gutter. We're used to that. It's that everything they try insults our intelligence. Say what you will about Texas, but the natives won't put up with that.
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Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore defied the odds, winning the race for South Carolina’s First Congressional District. Lacore was fired by Pete Hegseth without cause after 35 years of service to our country. She could have retired, but Lacore wasn’t ready to stop serving. Now she’ll represent South Carolina in Congress, and VoteVets is proud to have had her back.
