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Make no mistake. The Jensen Huang scandal isn't just a story about someone's private life. It's a lever. And it's going to be used for one thing: taking control of AI. [Tr]
X.com ^ | 11/12/2026 | Brivael Le Pogam

Posted on 11/12/2026 7:42:52 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...

Make no mistake. The Jensen Huang scandal isn't just a story about someone's private life.

It's a lever. And it's going to be used for one thing: taking control of AI.

I'm not saying the facts are made up. Jensen admitted the affairs, and the investigation should run its course. I'm saying: look at what's being built on top of it.

Look at the sequence.

Early November, Democrats win both chambers of Congress. Right after, they announce a flood of AI bills.

One congresswoman calls for a pause on advanced AI development and a ban on superintelligence, on day one. A bill introduced in the House would create a federal Department of AI with the power to decide which companies are allowed to build advanced models. A senator wants a federal AI Safety Board with mandatory standards. Others want mandatory testing before any model is released.

Translation: tomorrow, to release a model, you'll need permission.

And who was standing in the way? Jensen.

He fought export restrictions he saw as counterproductive. He fought the state-by-state patchwork of AI laws. His very first post on X was a letter signed by Nvidia on a single topic: why open models matter. Safety, innovation, sovereignty. The world needs both closed models and open models.

Nvidia is one of the most powerful companies on the planet publicly defending open weights.

And now, in Washington, analysts are saying it out loud: the scandal has broken Nvidia's ability to slow those bills down.

For those who want to lock everything up, the timing is perfect.

Why does this matter so much? Because open source is the only thing standing between AI and a tool of control.

If AI stays open, anyone can download a model, inspect it, modify it, run it on their own machine. A student in Lagos. A small business in Ohio. A dissident in Hong Kong. No one can switch it off. No one can decide for them what the machine is allowed to say.

Kill open source, and what's left?

A handful of closed models. Licensed. Tested, approved, monitored by a federal agency. And when an agency decides what an AI is allowed to say, it decides what billions of people will read, learn and think.

That's not a technology anymore. That's a Ministry of Truth with an API.

And don't believe for a second these rules will hurt the giants.

George Stigler, Nobel laureate in economics, showed it: regulation almost always ends up captured by the very players it claims to rein in. A multimillion-dollar license? The giants pay it without blinking. A ten-person open source lab can't. Bureaucrats write the rules, the biggest players write them alongside them, and everyone else disappears.

A caste of bureaucrats, backed by a few billionaires rich enough to buy their ticket in. That's what the closed world looks like.

Europe already went down this road. The result: models launch in the US and China, and reach Europe months later. If they reach it at all.

And while America gets ready to handcuff itself, China is shipping open-weight models one after another and giving them to the whole world.

My read: the Huang scandal will be the first pretext. Not the last. Every incident, every fear, every headline will be used to close one more door.

If AI stays open, it belongs to everyone.

If it closes, it belongs to whoever hands out the licenses.

And that day, it's game over.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: ai; denocrats; jensenhuang; openai
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1 posted on 11/12/2026 7:42:52 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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To: All

Democrats, shills for Democrats, and the Main Stream Media (pro-Democrat Party) are loving every minute of this.

While I’m the very last person to ever be pro-Communism/pro-China, I recognize a potential a.) China! China! China! when I see it, just like I saw through the b.) Russia! Russia! Russia! from Democrats against Trump. Strange though to see b.) and also now a.) both being pushed by Democrats.

It must be said though there are multiple, major conservative voices on X and elsewhere who are saying this is a Uniparty effort, so there’s that.


2 posted on 11/12/2026 7:44:58 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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To: sauropod

review


3 posted on 11/12/2026 7:45:56 PM PST by sauropod ("Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati." Ne supra crepidam)
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To: sauropod

review


4 posted on 11/12/2026 7:45:57 PM PST by sauropod ("Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati." Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Piggyback this with Bill Gates’ warning/promise AI would kill billions and you have the outline of a plan.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/27/bill-gates-artificial-intelligence-kristen-welker


5 posted on 11/12/2026 7:48:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The EU is the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes." --Mikhail Gorbachev)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Big deal, go outside and look at nature yourself, the sights and sounds.


6 posted on 11/12/2026 7:49:26 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesied set before you." ) I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Source: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/resources/blog/nvidia-deals-round-tripping-or-vendor-financing/

7 posted on 11/12/2026 7:50:47 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Varsity Flight

Physician, heal thyself.

Good try at deflecting this and making it about me when you don’t know me.

Try again later. Thanks for playing tbough.


8 posted on 11/12/2026 7:52:16 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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To: Its All Over Except ...
China is shipping open-weight models one after another and giving them to the whole world.

You know what they say….if you get something for free, then YOU are the product.

9 posted on 11/12/2026 7:54:11 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Anytime you see the pro-Democrat MSM reporting with glee over this, with liberal Democrats making the moves they are making, and the usual suspect Big Government types on the internet piling on in glee, those are all major red flags.


10 posted on 11/12/2026 7:55:50 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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