NYT’s Peter Baker: Jensen Huang Scandal Is Scandal for the United States as a Whole

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BAKER: “What this reminds me of is what we learned just the other day about Elon Musk and the power that an individual corporate owner has in Ukraine, right? These are not just private businesses anymore. In some ways, they are stakeholders in our national security in a way I'm not sure that we ever fully have seen before because they control, in the case of Starlink, you know, they control the skies. They control, you know, the ability to wage war literally for Ukraine as it fights for survival. In NVIDIA's case, it controls the ability to build the future technology that's going to basically govern our society and our economy. These are private companies, but they have such great public impact. I mean, they're private companies in the sense of being non-governmental, obviously publicly traded in the case of these companies. But so important. And that's why this is not just simply a scandal for NVIDIA, but for a scandal for the United States as a whole.”