Should any nation let its most strategic technology depend on a single unreplaceable person?
If the entire AI buildout runs through one company’s chips and one CEO with no successor, is key-person risk now a national security problem that governments should regulate, or is it a private matter for boards and shareholders to manage?
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In today’s episode of Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts, dated November 10, 2026, the hosts dug into Nvidia’s independent probe after Jensen Huang admitted an affair with a woman US intelligence believes was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security. The episode’s sharpest observation is that the intelligence service targeted the man, not the company, because sixty people report to him, no succession plan exists, and he personally lobbied the President to loosen chip export controls. That raises a question Washington seems to be discovering only now: the chokepoint it relied on has no backup. The hosts also explore what history says about societies that concentrate decisive power in one indispensable figure. Listen to the full episode and tell us where you land on who should own this risk.
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