Nvidia’s new interim CEO, Colette Kress, has a direct line to Israel. In a 2023 interview with the Israeli business outlet Globes, she said her day starts with meetings with Nvidia’s Israeli executives: “My day starts with Israel meetings, and only then continues to California.”

Kress takes over after Jensen Huang’s resignation. Israel is one of Nvidia’s largest bases outside the United States. About 12 percent of its employees, roughly 3,200 people, work there, according to Globes.

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    This is an odd article, I agree 100% fuck israel, however all this is reporting is that this lady talks to execs in their israeli hq. Odd, because it’s framing her as a direct line (which is her job duties I imagine), when it’s really a symptom of a bigger systemic problem. Fuck israel and fuck nvidia basically.

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    Jensen supported Palantir significantly. Israel/her influence was already strong at Nvidia. Maybe Lebanon/Iran should be suspicious if they are taken off GPU sanctions list, though. (yes, that is a pager reference).

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    First, fuck Israel.

    Having said that, timezones exist. Its 2 pm in Israel v 8am in California.

    She has to start with their Israel office before they close for the day.

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        Israel purposefully put themselves to the east of all western countries so they could have first dibs on the markets and be the earliest investor calls. /s

        Fuck Israel though. /not s

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      He definitely chose to be put out before the company has to deal with the half trillion in liabilities it has taken on backstopping the whole industry Enron style.

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      What I struggle to add to the equation is why trump suddenly appeared on live tv and was making ‘recommendations’ for another CEO of this privately owned company?

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          My assumption was that the whole thing was probably planned, with other reasons than what has been publicly shared. The pedophile of course had to feel included because of reasons, so they let him go on live tv like a big boy to take official credit for picking the next CEO, which would make him appear as someone who ‘gets the job done’, sort of. But the joke is obviously on silly me for trying to make sense of anything coming from that bizarro country at this point, I guess.

          Would you like to explain why this makes total sense?

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            i can see that and there isn’t much to explain if you have the missing puzzle piece: it was never a secret that huang’s side piece worked with chinese gov’t since all large ceo’s are forced to work w their respective gov’ts in this manner – trump & co sat on this for almost a year before puling the trigger and timed it exactly to when huang was scheduled to have 1-on-1 time with xi jinping.

            they simply didn’t trust huang enough since he’d been advocating for a change of course and trump announcing this publicly was his part in shoring up the narrative of why the only profitable part of our AI bubble is now going to lose even more than it already had ever since obama, biden and trump started collectively erecting barriers to selling nvidia products to china.

            now isreal gets to decide what nvidia wants and they’re balls deep into trying to fuck china as much as the united states is.

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              huang enough since he’d been advocating for a change

              By change, are you referring to that Huang backed up OpenAI/Anthropic’s PR stunt about the supposedly “rogue” LLM’s? Or something else?

              I don’t doubt for a second that trump, as well as Huang and a couple others, all made good money on those chips, and that money went straight in their pockets. But (speculation) does trump really care about China, or is it more of keeping up with expectations from the audience? I don’t know, I feel like the only motivation for him is to expand his personal wealth. He is, as we’ve seen on TV, a ‘businessman’ first. With his level of narcissism and non-existent morals, would you expect him to do get involved with anything that doesn’t personally benefit his wealth?

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                i can also see this too and here’s more missing puzzle pieces for your analysis:

                nvidia has been losing out on A LOT of profits because the american government will not let them sell the high end chips to china and huang was lobbying entire time to change this – letting nvidia sell to china makes the ai bubble more sustainable and ensures that china never creates a its own competitor. (it’s too late now for that last part, but there’s still plenty of profits to be had until that new competitor catches up).

                trump wants it as much (or as little depending on your perspective) as much as clinton, bush jr, obama, biden, wanted it – they’ve all been adopting the same strategy when it comes to china and zooming in on trump is going to make you miss this forrest for the trees.