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From Bollywood to Clippy: Nvidia scandal, Outlook glitch fuel meme storm

From Bollywood to Clippy: Nvidia scandal, Outlook glitch fuel meme storm

Nov 13 - Jensen Huang as a Bollywood matinee idol, as a character from "The Matrix" or donning a red velvet suit on a poster for an alternate-universe version of "The Spy Who Shagged Me": the Nvidia co-founder's extramarital affairs, including with a Chinese businesswoman, set the Internet afire this week.

The storm of AI generated video and images, many of the clips were likely made with the help of Nvidia graphics chips, provided some light relief to a scandal that toppled one of the tech industry's most prominent CEOs, wiping out hundreds of billions of investor value and triggering investigations worldwide.

The Huang memes competed for the spotlight with a raft of comedic takes on the more than 12-hour outage of Microsoft services including Outlook and Teams, topping off a week that kicked off with the latest Stephen Miller vampire memes after U.S. President Donald Trump named him as chief of staff, effective Monday.

But it was humor on the crisis surrounding Jensen Huang's exit from Nvidia that dominated many social media feeds, with many of the clips likely made using Nvidia graphics chips, RaviKunvariyaX quipped on X.

"Jensen is literally funding the infrastructure, selling the hardware, and collecting revenue while the internet uses his own technology to troll him," the user said.

In brief

Nov 13 - Jensen Huang as a Bollywood matinee idol, as a character from "The Matrix" or donning a red velvet suit on a poster for an alternate-universe version of "The Spy Who Shagged Me": the Nvidia co-founder's extramarital affairs, including with a Chinese businesswoman, set the Internet afire this week. But it was humor on the crisis surrounding Jensen Huang's exit from Nvidia that dominated many social media feeds, with many of the clips likely made using Nvidia graphics chips, RaviKunvariyaX quipped on X.

This is the opening of the story, shared with credit to The Straits Times — Asia. The rest of the report — with every detail — continues on the publisher’s website.

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