Jensen Huang reportedly engaged a PR firm with a history of handling high-profile sex scandals a year ago
THE SO WHAT
When a core infra CEO quietly retains crisis PR a year in advance, counterparties should assume the risk was modeled internally long before it surfaced publicly. If your business is GPU-dependent, treat this as a reminder to map single-leader and single-vendor exposure, not as gossip.
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