With Huang, we could plausibly attribute shtupping his VP of healthcare to hubris. But given his continued lobbying to sell Nvidia chips to China, hubris alone becomes less credible as far as Alice Huang is concerned. It's reasonable to be concerned he was actively working towards Chinese interests, whether willingly or through coercion. No doubt why he has been called to testify before Congress.

As far as the Microsoft outage is concerned, reading comments and posts from my former coworkers makes it clear that the only ones who cared are those whose jobs revolve around sending emails and arranging meetings on Teams. Everyone else expected to perform work that actually adds value views the outage as a mini vacation.

Rethinking the tech oligopoly? Methinks that ship has sailed.