{"id":81237,"date":"2026-11-12T06:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/billions-lost-and-markets-roiled-by-one-mans-indiscretion-isnt-it-now-clear-that-these-tech-bros-are-too-powerful-aditya-chakrabortty\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T06:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:55:12","slug":"billions-lost-and-markets-roiled-by-one-mans-indiscretion-isnt-it-now-clear-that-these-tech-bros-are-too-powerful-aditya-chakrabortty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/billions-lost-and-markets-roiled-by-one-mans-indiscretion-isnt-it-now-clear-that-these-tech-bros-are-too-powerful-aditya-chakrabortty\/","title":{"rendered":"Billions lost and markets roiled by one man\u2019s indiscretion. Isn\u2019t it now clear that these tech bros are too powerful? | Aditya Chakrabortty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang\u2019s affair must be the costliest fling in human history \u2013 and a preview of what awaits when the tech bubble bursts<\/p>\n<p>One thing we all know about the tech billionaires is they are super-smart. We know this largely because they never stop telling us. The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/podcast\/political-scene\/the-cognitive-elite-seize-washington\">cognitive elite<\/a>\u201d, to use their favoured phrase, are entitled to shape our future without our say-so. When Elon Musk goes hiring, he wants \u201csuper-high-IQ small-government revolutionaries\u201d. Long before they got private jets, what fuelled these boys was faith in their own brainpower. As a teenager, Jensen Huang wooed his future wife, Lori, thus: \u201cIf you do homework with me every Sunday, I promise you you\u2019ll get straight As.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lord Byron: I believe it\u2019s <em>your<\/em> move.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/nov\/12\/billions-lost-markets-roiled-one-man-indiscretion-tech-bro-jensen-huang-affair-nvidia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang\u2019s affair must be the costliest fling in human history \u2013 and a preview of what awaits when the tech bubble bursts One thing we all know about the tech billionaires is they are super-smart. We know this largely because they never stop telling us. The \u201ccognitive elite\u201d, to use their favoured &#8230; <a title=\"Billions lost and markets roiled by one man\u2019s indiscretion. Isn\u2019t it now clear that these tech bros are too powerful? | Aditya Chakrabortty\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/billions-lost-and-markets-roiled-by-one-mans-indiscretion-isnt-it-now-clear-that-these-tech-bros-are-too-powerful-aditya-chakrabortty\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Billions lost and markets roiled by one man\u2019s indiscretion. Isn\u2019t it now clear that these tech bros are too powerful? | Aditya Chakrabortty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}