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A high-profile South Korean event focused on Nvidia’s ties with local AI players was disrupted after Jensen Huang’s daughter cancelled her planned appearance and a senior government official pulled out, Bloomberg reports.

The report says Nvidia executives were left answering uncomfortable questions from invited journalists. It does not specify the controversy in the supplied account, so the exact issues behind the questions remain unclear. The disruption matters because it puts strain on a public-facing effort to deepen Nvidia’s relationships in South Korea, a significant AI market. How much should a company’s public partnerships be affected by controversy around its leadership?

Discuss: Should business and government partners keep AI collaborations separate from controversy around a company’s leadership, or treat that controversy as relevant to the partnership?

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