
Jensen Huang’s Alleged Honeypot Scandal Inspired Top-Notch Memes
Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of the world’s largest microchip company, was allegedly framed by a suspected Chinese spy, and the news hit the Internet like a match to gasoline.
Huang has long been considered a wife (at least that’s what everyone thought). He and his wife, Lori, have been together since the 1980s, and their two children work at Nvidia. Huang is the closest thing to a rock star in the tech world, with fans lining up for selfies and autographs. Of all the AI overlords, the leather jacket wearing Huang seems to be the most level-headed and least erratic, which is why this plot twist hit so hard.
The potential consequences are staggering. Nvidia is so big in the U.S. stock market that even the company’s domestic drama poses a market risk. Countless AI startups rely on Nvidia chips, so any shakeup at the top would have repercussions far beyond the company. And Nvidia doesn’t have a publicly disclosed succession plan, so if Huang leaves, it’s unclear who will take over.
East This How is the AI bubble bursting? That’s a question that will be answered in time, but in the meantime, a more pressing matter demands our attention: ranking the funniest memes about the scandal, with bonus points for AI images presumably generated using Nvidia chips.
There’s certainly plenty to choose from, from jokes about “500 Days of Summer” to jokes about divorce lawyers to an AI adaptation of the music video for Usher’s song “Confessions Pt. II,” a track about cheating. Another person created a viral AI video that recreates the Coldplay concert where a startup CEO was filmed on the Jumbotron hugging a colleague.
Huang publicly confessed to the affair yesterday, so the internet has the rest of the week to get creative.
Yes, the Internet is having a field day with this one.
As usual, AI-generated content does a lot of heavy lifting. Copyleaks, a software company that scans online content for signs of AI and digital manipulation, said Monday it had seen “an explosion of AI-manipulated photos and videos from Huang and Alice Huang, ranging from memes to more subtle edits.” The tally includes at least 70 AI-related posts on X, which together attracted about 8.42 million views and 64,362 engagements as of Monday morning. These numbers have almost certainly increased since then.
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