points by UncleOxidant 8 hours ago | 0 comments
What about this part: "President Trump was briefed and took no action." ?
[–] nostrademons 8 hours ago
[–] petre 8 hours ago
It's not the NYT but the NY Post, Rupert Murdoch tabloid media.
[–] UncleOxidant 8 hours ago
It's also in the NYTimes.
[–] freejazz 7 hours ago
So you're saying it might actually be news??
[–] apical_dendrite 8 hours ago
Another interpretation is that someone in the intelligence community felt that since Trump was ignoring what they perceived to be a serious threat to security, their best recourse was to use the media to raise an alarm.
[–] nostrademons 7 hours ago
Hmm, that's a possible read on it. I'd initially assumed an administration leak because the article seems more pro-Trump than the facts warrant (eg. "Mr. Huang, one of the most powerful figures in the A.I. revolution as well as an influential ally of President Trump’s" => Jensen Huang seems neutral/Democratic to me, though primarily concerned with the survival of his business, the picture of the White House luncheon with tech leaders => look at how he's projecting power and the support of the tech community, "People who have watched the two men interact say Mr. Trump has been won over by the lavish praise Mr. Huang has given the president in public" => look at how much lavish praise Mr. Trump gets!). But on a second read, all of those could be interpreted as the CIA complaining about how the close relationship between Trump & Huang is jeopardizing national security, and a few other comments in the article (eg. the sentences about how the Biden administration moved to clamp down on AI exports to China before Trump took over, and how this investigation started under the Biden administration) would support that read.
[–] ActionHank 8 hours ago
Needs to check in with daddy putin first.
You don't write about it in the NYTimes unless there's a purpose. That purpose is leverage. If you're negotiating, you don't blow all your leverage upfront; you subtly let the other party know you have it, and then wait to see if they play ball. If they don't, that's when you apply pressure.