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Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force
- hblerner 20d ago[dead]
- lapkaaaa 20d agowe live in cyberpunk without all of the cool stuff
- actionfromafar 20d agoFrom your downvotes, I can only assume some people think this is the cool cyberpunk stuff. :-D
- downrightmike 20d agobreak them up
- nonethewiser 20d agoNVIDIA? On what basis?
- downrightmike 20d agoLack of competition. Just like Intel and AMD
- bigyabai 20d agoIntel and AMD compete with each other, shipping raster GPUs. AMD also ships CDNA, which is a legitimate competitor to Nvidia's hardware (albeit not a CUDA replacement). Breaking up Nvidia into B2C and B2B portions would probably end up killing CUDA in the consumer GPUs (which enthusiasts rely on), and send the value of datacenter GPUs skyrocketing even further. Nvidia's competitors wouldn't benefit from that.
- josefritzishere 20d agoNo amount of campaign donations will save them when the market crashes. They're going to find themselves short on friends.
- wishgreen 20d agoWait, I think I've seen this one before...
- bigcat12345678 20d agoI treat this as a sign of the inevitable terminal phase of any private cooperation in US: they start to invest their resources to stretch into areas that are irrelevant to their core mission, but they have to, because their core mission is accomplished already, and their business, which is built on top of the fruits of their core mission, needs protection beyond direct means relevant to their core mission. When pursing a core mission, many corps fail, either because lack of resources, or mission itself is not meaningful, execution failure, etc.; the fortunate few, might be in growth, while their mission keeps self-reinforce into bigger and bigger scope, that's the wonderful time of growth driven by meaningful mission. When the core mission is done. The corp resets. Vast majority of them make profit that is small enough that the normal corporate logic prevail, and they behave normally, primarily to survive. Extremely rarely, when the core mission is so meaningful, the corp reaps so large a profit, and so many stakeholders are attracted, that they no longer focus on core mission, they start to focus on profit. That's why NVDA is now buying assets across the whole stack of AI, while still increase price to maintain its profit. NVDA wants to maximize profit. The inherent flaw is that private corp in US system, has no meaningful end game when they are in this state of astronomical profit.
- zdragnar 20d agoTheir biggest customers are struggling to build out locations to use their products. This is nothing more than an attempt to engage in regulatory capture to overrule local politics on behalf of their customers.
- bigcat12345678 20d ago> Their biggest customers are struggling to build out locations to use their products. That's true. Although, the fact remains that any large corp in US, eventually becomes too big to make sense to pursue their core mission. Essentially, NVDA does not need this much profit to continue its core mission or try to expand the scope into more meaningful ventures. But profit seeking inevitably would make them to go blindly. They'll find reasons to do that, as profit itself is non-binding to any particular person, ideology, principles etc.
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- nothrowaways 20d agoGotta protect the windfall LoL
- spicyusername 20d agoIs the problem here NVIDIA or is the problem that our government doesn't function unless there's a pac funneling money into decision-making? Hardly surprising to see a company with strategic interests strategically try to achieve them. A business exists to make money, and if pulling policy levers is required to make money, you'll see them try to pull the levers. Reverse Citizens United and you solve these kind of problems at the source.
- cyanydeez 20d agoSo the first step down the lobbying-is-good-for-governance that both sides embraced was when they defunded the congressional research office. So a vital way in which congress "informed themselves" was basically minimized to the point that the only way for congress to now inform themselves is via lobbying and th eonly way to write complex legislation is via those lobbyings. This is the endpoint of that effort and the people who pushed it most likely knew what they were doing.
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- bigbadfeline 19d agoGood catch, the self-contradictions in the excusatory narrative are becoming hard to ignore.
- y1n0 20d agoYeah I generally lean libertarian but I tend to agree with reversing citizens united.
- kzrdude 20d agoIt's worth listening to Lawrence Lessig, speaking in 2011, "Republic Lost" on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc (It's a "Talk at Google") I think he laid it out very clearly, but never found traction to try to change this (I don't think US Congress wants to be changed, though).
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- 12ahsgf 20d agoNvidia is the next Juniper. They and the flaggers from their perception management agency only function until the AI fraud collapses in 2027.
- edoceo 20d agoCan you be any more precise on timing? I wanna buy puts.
- cs702 20d ago"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is." - Mark Hanna Mark Hanna was a political consultant in the late 1800's, in the US. Source: https://quote.org/quote/there-are-two-things-that-are-important-628983 https://quote.org/quote/there-are-two-things-that-are-import...
- formvoltron 20d agoHopefully Huang will ask for tariffs on solar panels & batteries to be lifted. After several years of tariffs, there is no American solar panel industry anywhere near as good as China's. Open the floodgates & reap clean, silent energy at 5-6 cents per kWh. There's plenty of land for those panels.
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- bix6 20d agoI am so tired of hearing about NVIDA.
- recursive 20d agoIt'll cool down as soon as the AI hype wave subsides.
- speed_spread 20d agoYeah for a graphics company they sure do a lot of noise
- gigel82 20d ago"As a rule, regulation is acquired by the industry and is designed and operated for its primary benefit." - George Stigler
- manyatoms 20d agoHow did they not already have one before? Surely every big company does this?