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   "date": "2003-09-11",
   "thread": "Nvidia record",
   "event": "SEC settles over Nvidia's FY2000 accounting; former CFO pays $671,695.",
   "source": "SEC",
   "url": "https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr-18343",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2022-05-06",
   "thread": "Nvidia record",
   "event": "Nvidia pays $5.5M to settle SEC charges over crypto-mining disclosure.",
   "source": "SEC",
   "url": "https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-79",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2023-03",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "7Road International is renamed Megaspeed; its shares go to Huang Le Ltd (BVI).",
   "source": "The Wire China",
   "url": "https://www.thewirechina.com/2026/11/11/the-rise-and-rise-of-alice-huang/",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2023-11",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Huang Le's shares pass to Swiftdata; Megaspeed becomes an Nvidia Cloud Partner.",
   "source": "Implicator (WSJ)",
   "url": "https://www.implicator.ai/kang-wei-alice-huang-megaspeed-nvidia/",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2024-06-07",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Jensen and Alice Huang photographed together at a Taipei bar during Computex week.",
   "source": "Business Insider",
   "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/photos-show-jensen-huang-alice-050535968.html",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2024-06-18",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Megaspeed's Malaysian unit Speedmatrix pledges its assets to Alibaba-owned Apex.",
   "source": "Straits Times",
   "url": "https://asianews.network/alibaba-megaspeed-financing-link-traced-via-singapore-malaysia-units-amid-nvidia-chip-scrutiny/",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-02",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Singapore police and customs open an investigation into Megaspeed.",
   "source": "Singapore MHA",
   "url": "https://www.mha.gov.sg/media-room/newsroom/singapore-investigations-into-alice-huang-huang-le-and-megaspeed-international-pte-ltd/",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-06-24",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "US export officials check Megaspeed; Singapore police interview Alice Huang and hold her passport.",
   "source": "Singapore MHA",
   "url": "https://www.mha.gov.sg/media-room/newsroom/singapore-investigations-into-alice-huang-huang-le-and-megaspeed-international-pte-ltd/",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-08",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Nvidia's general counsel contacts Commerce investigators about the Megaspeed probe.",
   "source": "Bloomberg",
   "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/nvidia-intervened-us-probe-megaspeed-212826572.html",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-08-19",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Gamers Nexus releases its documentary on the AI GPU black market.",
   "source": "Lowyat",
   "url": "https://www.lowyat.net/2025/363052/gamers-nexus-ai-gpu-black-market-china/",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-09-16",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Nvidia agrees to buy up to $6.3B of CoreWeave's unsold capacity through 2032.",
   "source": "RCR Wireless",
   "url": "https://rcrwireless.com/20250916/ai-infrastructure/nvidia-cloud",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2025-09-22",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Nvidia and OpenAI sign a letter of intent for up to $100B, staged over 10 GW.",
   "source": "Nvidia",
   "url": "https://investor.nvidia.com/news/press-release-details/2025/OpenAI-and-NVIDIA-Announce-Strategic-Partnership-to-Deploy-10-Gigawatts-of-NVIDIA-Systems/",
   "key": true
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  {
   "date": "2025-10-09",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "NYT publishes its Megaspeed investigation into China's access to banned Nvidia chips.",
   "source": "NYT",
   "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/nvidia-chips-china-megaspeed.html",
   "key": true
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   "date": "2025-11-18",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Nvidia pledges up to $10B to Anthropic; Microsoft pledges up to $5B.",
   "source": "CNBC",
   "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/anthropic-ai-azure-microsoft-nvidia.html",
   "key": false
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   "date": "2025-12-22",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Bloomberg finds Megaspeed's near-identical Chinese twin, Shanghai Shuoyao.",
   "source": "Bloomberg",
   "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-22/nvidia-partner-megaspeed-draws-china-chip-smuggling-concerns-in-us",
   "key": false
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   "date": "2026-02-26",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Alice Huang gets her passport back with a stern warning, leaves Singapore and is barred from returning.",
   "source": "Singapore MHA",
   "url": "https://www.mha.gov.sg/media-room/newsroom/singapore-investigations-into-alice-huang-huang-le-and-megaspeed-international-pte-ltd/",
   "key": false
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   "date": "2026-02-27",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Nvidia commits $30B to OpenAI's $110B round, replacing the $100B letter of intent.",
   "source": "CNBC",
   "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/open-ai-funding-round-amazon.html",
   "key": true
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   "date": "2026-03-19",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Super Micro co-founder Wally Liaw is arrested; prosecutors describe the hair-dryer label swap.",
   "source": "DOJ SDNY",
   "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-conspiring-unlawfully-divert-us-artificial-intelligence-technology-china",
   "key": true
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-03-24",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Ed Zitron writes up Bloomberg's findings in his newsletter.",
   "source": "Where's Your Ed At",
   "url": "https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-05-13",
   "thread": "Smuggling probe",
   "event": "Culper Research shorts Nvidia with \"The China Problem\".",
   "source": "TechCrunch",
   "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/a-short-seller-flagged-nvidia-ceos-ties-to-a-suspected-chinese-spy-six-months-before-the-scandal/",
   "key": true
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  {
   "date": "2026-06-19",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "WSJ reports neoclouds fear \"Jensen jail\" if they move to rival chips.",
   "source": "The Next Web (WSJ)",
   "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/google-nvidia-playbook-tpu-circular-financing-anthropic",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-10",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Nvidia signs non-binding agreements with six Wall Street firms aiming at $500B+ of AI financing.",
   "source": "CNBC",
   "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/nvidia-wall-street-asset-managers-500-billion-ai-push.html",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-17",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Nvidia guarantees up to $105B of leases for OpenAI's Ohio campus.",
   "source": "Nvidia",
   "url": "https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-guarantees-sb-energy-s-ports-pike-technology-campus-in-ohio-to-exclusively-host-nvidia-ai-compute",
   "key": true
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-27",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Morgan Stanley analysts dub Nvidia \"balance sheet as a service\".",
   "source": "Yahoo Finance",
   "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/nvidia-is-looking-more-like-the-central-bank-of-ai-chart-of-the-day-213156835.html",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-20",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "TD Cowen says Nvidia may be providing credit support to Oracle.",
   "source": "Yahoo (24/7 Wall St)",
   "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/td-cowen-thinks-nvidia-helping-124554129.html",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-28",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Bloomberg: Wall Street's AI debt machine is struggling to place new loans.",
   "source": "Bloomberg",
   "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/wall-street-ai-debt-machine-103000166.html",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-29",
   "thread": "Resignation",
   "event": "NYT reports Huang's close relationship with Alice Huang and US intelligence concerns.",
   "source": "TechCrunch timeline",
   "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huangs-affair-with-alleged-chinese-spy-a-timeline/",
   "key": true
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-29",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Bloomberg: Nvidia in talks to back Nscale's debt for an Anthropic data center.",
   "source": "Bloomberg",
   "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-29/nvidia-in-talks-to-offer-credit-support-for-nscale-project",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-06",
   "thread": "Resignation",
   "event": "NYT reports a classified memo concluding Alice Huang was recruited by China's MSS.",
   "source": "Bloomberg (NYT)",
   "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-07/us-believes-woman-close-to-nvidia-ceo-was-a-china-spy-nyt-says",
   "key": true
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-08",
   "thread": "Resignation",
   "event": "Huang tells staff he was unfaithful; the board opens an independent investigation.",
   "source": "Nvidia",
   "url": "https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-company",
   "key": true
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-09",
   "thread": "Resignation",
   "event": "Trump says Huang didn't know she was a spy; reports say DOJ has taken over the Megaspeed probe.",
   "source": "CNBC",
   "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/09/trump-jensen-huang-nvidia-chinese-spy.html",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-10",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Anthropic's IPO filing shows a $26B side placement, about $10B of it from Nvidia.",
   "source": "SEC",
   "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0002130357/000162828026072953/anthropicpbc-fwpauswrapcap.htm",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-10",
   "thread": "Resignation",
   "event": "Independent directors hire Wachtell Lipton to run the board's investigation.",
   "source": "CNBC",
   "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/10/nvidia-wachtell-lipton-huang-affair.html",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-11",
   "thread": "Resignation",
   "event": "NYT reports a relationship with Nvidia healthcare VP Kimberly Powell; the board meets.",
   "source": "TechCrunch",
   "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/11/jensen-huang-accused-of-having-another-affair-with-a-nvidia-exec/",
   "key": true
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-12",
   "thread": "Resignation",
   "event": "Huang resigns; Colette Kress is interim CEO and Harvey Jones becomes chair.",
   "source": "SEC 8-K",
   "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001045810/000104581026000082/nvda-20261111.htm",
   "key": true
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-12",
   "thread": "Resignation",
   "event": "Semafor reports three DOJ inquiries; Super Micro stock falls 11%.",
   "source": "Investing.com (Semafor)",
   "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/super-micro-shares-tumble-as-doj-probes-widen-to-nvidia-semafor-reports-5022744",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-12",
   "thread": "Resignation",
   "event": "Singapore says it bars Alice Huang but never investigated her for espionage.",
   "source": "Singapore MHA",
   "url": "https://www.mha.gov.sg/media-room/newsroom/singapore-investigations-into-alice-huang-huang-le-and-megaspeed-international-pte-ltd/",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-17",
   "thread": "Nvidia record",
   "event": "Scheduled: Nvidia reports Q3 FY27 earnings, its first results under Kress.",
   "source": "Nvidia",
   "url": "https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition",
   "key": false
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-11-18",
   "thread": "Circular financing",
   "event": "Expected: Anthropic IPO pricing, which triggers Nvidia's placement.",
   "source": "Yahoo Finance",
   "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/article/anthropic-ipo-what-we-know-143321078.html",
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