英伟达董事会权衡黄仁勋的未来
这里是《纽约时报》要闻简报。我是特雷西·芒福德（Tracy Mumford）。今天是11月12日，星期四。以下是今日要闻。
英文原文
[music]From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Thursday, November 12th. Here's what we're covering.
《纽约时报》获悉，英伟达董事会正在权衡其首席执行官黄仁勋（Jensen Huang）的未来去留。此前，他承认与一名被美国情报部门认定为中国间谍的女性有染。随后在昨天，又有爆料称他还与一名向其汇报工作的英伟达女性高管存在婚外情。
据两位知情人士透露，公司董事会已开会对此进行了讨论，但尚未发布任何公告，也未回应置评请求。
对于这家全球最大的AI芯片制造商而言，任何潜在的领导层变动都将开启一段充满不确定性的篇章，并带来广泛的连锁反应。
英文原文
The Times has learned that Nvidia's board of directors is weighing the future of its CEO, Jensen Huang. It comes after he admitted he had an affair with a woman who US intelligence has identified as a Chinese spy. And then yesterday, revelations that he also had an affair with an Nvidia executive who reports to him.The company's board met to discuss, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, but has not made any announcement and did not respond to requests for comment.
Any potential change in Nvidia's leadership would open an uncertain chapter for the world's top maker of AI chips and would have widespread ripple effects.
黄仁勋可以说是全球最重要的AI公司的关键人物。在如今已成为全球经济重要支柱的AI产业中，有90%的芯片都来自英伟达。
英文原文
>> Jensen Huang is the key man at arguably the most important AI company in the world. 90% of the chips in the AI industry, which has become a massive part of the global economy, come from Nvidia.瑞安·麦克（Ryan Mac）是《纽约时报》负责报道科技领域的记者。
英文原文
>> Ryan Mac covers tech for the Times.黄仁勋在某种程度上就像一位“CEO之王”。他成了一位身着皮夹克的名人。他在外四处奔走举办活动，宛如摇滚明星，并且被视作一位带领这家公司成长为数万亿美元业务的全球领袖。
在硅谷，我们见过这类极具传奇色彩的科技领袖。比如大家都记得史蒂夫·乔布斯（Steve Jobs）。黄仁勋现在在很多方面同样是其公司的代言人，也是整个行业的面孔。所以这一切意味着，他本质上就代表着英伟达。他与这家公司深度绑定，也就是华尔街所说的“关键人物（key man）”。当这样的人出现失误，或是在公司内部引发问题时，就会带来巨大的“关键人物风险”。
英文原文
>> Huang is something of a CEO king. You know, he's become a celebrity who is sporting a leather jacket. He's out there doing events like a rock star, and he's seen as this global leader who has taken this company to a multi-trillion dollar business.In Silicon Valley, we've seen these kind of tech leaders who have become larger-than-life figures. You know, we all remember Steve Jobs, for example. Jensen Huang is now, in many ways, the face of his company and the face of an industry in the same way. So what that all means is that he is essentially Nvidia. He is so tied up in the company that he is what Wall Street calls the key man. [music] And there's a lot of key man risk when someone like that has a misstep or [music] causes a problem within the company.
鉴于黄仁勋与那名中国籍高管的关系，外界对他在英伟达未来的质疑此前就已甚嚣尘上；而昨天，当我的同事报道了他与英伟达一位副总裁的另一段婚外情后，围绕他的审视进一步加剧。
根据英伟达的行为准则，员工被告知要“避免自身行为产生冲突的情况，包括个人关系”。当《纽约时报》通过电话联系到黄仁勋时，黄仁勋表示：“我认为你们不应该直接跟我谈话”，随后挂断了电话。
英伟达的股价在盘后交易中大跌。
英文原文
>> While questions about Huang's future Nvidia were already swirling in light of his relationship with the Chinese executive, the scrutiny on him intensified yesterday when my colleagues reported on the additional affair with a vice president at Nvidia.Under Nvidia's code of conduct, employees are told to quote avoid situations where our actions create conflict, including personal relationships. When reached by phone by the Times, Huang said, I don't think you should be talking to me directly and hung up.
Nvidia's stock price plummeted in after-hours trading.
民主党爆冷赢得密西西比州参议员席位与弹劾争议
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昨天，悬而未决的最后几场参议院竞选之一在密西西比州分出胜负，民主党宣布获胜。
上帝保佑你们所有人。
[欢呼声] 上帝保佑你们所有人。
谢谢大家。
英文原文
[music]Yesterday, one of the last Senate races still up in the air was called in Mississippi for the Democrats.
God bless y'all.
[cheering] God bless y'all.
Thank y'all.
据美联社报道，斯科特·科隆（Scott Colom）锁定了一个许多人此前甚至认为民主党毫无胜算的席位。自1982年以来，密西西比州就从未选出过民主党籍的参议员。
科隆也是自19世纪以来首位代表密西西比州进入参议院的黑人男性。
英文原文
>> According to the Associated Press, Scott Colom has secured a seat many didn't even think his party had a chance at. Mississippi hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1982.Colom is also the first black man to represent Mississippi in the Senate since the 19th century.
上帝不想让我们走平坦的路。
他想让我们以密西西比的方式去赢得胜利。
英文原文
>> God didn't want us to get it the easy way.He wanted us to get it the Mississippi way.
这场竞选花了一个多星期才确定结果，因为两人的得票差距极其微弱，科隆仅领先了几千票。
就他如何取得这一胜利而言，科隆担任检察官的经历帮助他抵御了外界指责其对于这个传统红州来说过于自由派的攻击。
而且他得以建立起一个多元化的联盟。他利用了黑人选民对共和党通过重新划分选区来削弱其投票权这一企图的沮丧情绪。更广泛地讲，他吸引了那些对物价上涨和特朗普政府感到厌倦的选民。
他还得益于整个中期选举中最具病毒式传播效应的广告之一，该广告抨击了他的共和党对手对牛肉高价不以为然的态度。
英文原文
>> The race took more than a week to call because the margin was razor thin with Colom in the lead by just a few thousand votes.In terms of how he pulled it off, Colom's experience as a prosecutor helped insulate him from attacks that he was too liberal for the historically red state.
And he was able to build a diverse coalition. He tapped into frustration among black voters over Republican efforts to dilute their voting power through redistricting. And more broadly, he appealed to voters fed up with rising prices and the Trump administration.
He was also boosted by one of the most viral ads of the whole midterms, which skewered his Republican opponent for brushing off the high price of beef.
“换一种蛋白质吃。”我倒宁愿换一个参议员。
英文原文
>> Pick another protein. I'd rather pick another senator instead.随着密西西比州翻蓝，民主党很快将在参议院占据至少55个席位。官员们目前仍在阿拉斯加州清点选票，那里的民主党人玛丽·佩尔托拉（Mary Peltola）目前保持着微弱领先。
与此同时，尽管民主党又取得了一场胜利，但本周党内却爆发了相互指责，起因是一场弹劾国防部长皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）的行动宣告破产。
事情发生在11名众议院民主党人因各种由头缺席了弹劾表决之后——交通堵塞、个人紧急情况；南希·佩洛西（Nancy Pelosi）的工作人员则表示她当时在加利福尼亚州领取终身成就奖。议员们的缺席助长了共和党击溃弹劾案的努力。
英文原文
>> With Mississippi now blue, Democrats will soon hold at least 55 seats in the Senate. And officials are still counting ballots in Alaska, where the Democrat there, Mary Peltola, currently has a narrow lead.Meanwhile, even as Democrats have notched another win, there's been finger pointing inside the party this week after an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth collapsed.
It happened after 11 House Democrats missed a vote on the impeachment with varying explanations. Traffic, a personal emergency. Nancy Pelosi's staffers said she was in California receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award. The lawmakers' absence boosted Republicans' efforts to sink the impeachment.
你想对那11位今晚没有出席投票的民主党人说些什么？
你们应该到场履行自己的职责。
英文原文
>> What do you say to those 11 Democrats who didn't show up to vote tonight?You should show up and do your job.
其他民主党人现在正就此严厉抨击他们，称缺席投票没有任何借口。
英文原文
>> Other Democrats are now ripping into them for it, saying there was no excuse for missing the vote.大家本就该麻溜地爬上台阶去投票。
英文原文
>> People should have gotten their rangy selves up the steps to vote.在社交媒体上，来自纽约州的众议员帕特·瑞安（Pat Ryan）表示，他前一天刚刚做了背部手术，但今天早上“办理了出院手续，以确保我能赶来投票”。
总体来看，议员们的缺席与内部纷争，让新近获得权力的民主党人错失了一次展现其制衡特朗普政府能力的机会，并且在民主党准备于明年一月接管国会之际，也引发了对党派领导层的质疑。
英文原文
>> On social media, Representative Pat Ryan of New York said he just had back surgery the day before, but had quote checked myself out of the hospital this morning to make sure I voted.Overall, the lawmakers' absences and the infighting muddled a chance for the newly empowered Democrats to demonstrate their ability to challenge the Trump administration and has raised questions about party leadership as Democrats prepare to take control of Congress in January.
俄罗斯《新报》被迫停业
本周早些时候，我人在莫斯科市中心俄罗斯最大胆的报纸《新报》（Novaya Gazeta）的办公室里。他们正在给纸箱打包封口、缠塑料薄膜，向这个作为他们数十年家园的办公室道别。
英文原文
>> Earlier this week, I was in downtown Moscow at the offices of Novaya Gazeta, Russia's most daring newspaper. They were doing the final packing of boxes, plastic wrapping, and saying farewell to an office that had been their home for decades.瓦莱丽·霍普金斯（Valerie Hopkins）是《纽约时报》莫斯科分社的记者。她一直在跟踪报道这家传奇俄罗斯报纸《新报》的最后岁月。
数十年来，该报调查腐败、揭露政治阴谋，并顶着政府日益严苛的审查制度努力报道乌克兰战争。有时这意味着即便在出版时，报纸头版上的“战争”一词也不得不被模糊处理。
然而在克里姆林宫对全国控制愈加收紧的情况下，该报如今被迫关闭。
英文原文
>> Valerie Hopkins is a reporter in the Times Moscow Bureau. She's been covering the last days of the legendary Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta.For decades, the paper investigated corruption, shined a light on political machinations, and worked to cover the war in Ukraine despite increasingly strict government censorship. Sometimes that meant even publishing front pages with the word war blurred out.
But now the paper has been forced to close amid the Kremlin's ever tightening grip over the country.
在其成立30多年的历程中，《新报》经历了六名同事被谋杀。他们的印刷机被扣押，媒体执照被吊销。联合创始人德米特里·穆拉托夫（Dmitry Muratov）曾因捍卫新闻自由荣获2021年诺贝尔和平奖，后来也遭到了残酷的酸液袭击。这是一家见证并经历了一切磨难的报纸。《新报》曾代表着俄罗斯自由与独立言论最后的堡垒之一。随着它的消失，对俄罗斯社会是一个巨大的损失，对任何真正想要尝试理解俄罗斯内部正在发生什么的人来说，也是一个巨大的损失。
英文原文
>> Over the more than 30 years of its existence, Novaya Gazeta faced the murder of six of its colleagues. Their printing presses were seized. Their media license was revoked. The co-founder Dmitry Muratov, who won the Nobel Prize in 2021 for defending press freedom, he was violently attacked with acid. This is a newspaper that has seen and lived through so much. And the Novaya Gazeta represented one of the last bastions of free and independent speech in Russia. And with that gone, [music] it's a tremendous loss for Russian society, and it's a tremendous loss for anyone who actually wants to try to understand what's happening inside Russia.瓦莱丽表示，据《新报》透露，在房东于近30年后拒绝续签租约，且俄罗斯境内的银行不再同意处理读者付款后，该报已无法再继续运转。既没有场地，也没有资金。
该报联合创始人称这是“蓄意摧毁”。
克里姆林宫发言人将其描述为正常的人员流动与更迭，称“每年都有一些媒体关闭，同时也有新的媒体取而代之”。
英文原文
>> [music]Valerie says that according to Novaya Gazeta, the paper could no longer go on after its landlord refused to renew its lease after nearly 30 years, and after banks in Russia would no longer agree to process payments from readers. No space, no [music] funding.
The paper 's co-founder called it quote deliberate destruction.
A spokesman for the Kremlin described it as normal turnover, saying that quote, every year some media outlets close and new ones take their place.
“合众国号”客轮沉入海底化作人工鱼礁
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最后，
昨晚，在距佛罗里达州德斯廷海岸22海里的海面上，聚集在一支小型船队上的观众们目睹了20世纪最伟大客轮之一的“合众国号”（SS United States）被蓄意击沉。
“合众国号”可搭载2000名乘客；如果需要用作运兵船，她可以容纳整个师的兵力。
英文原文
[music]And finally,
last night, 22 nautical miles off the coast of Destin, Florida, spectators aboard a flotilla of boats gathered to watch the intentional sinking of the SS United States, one of the greatest ships of the 20th century.
The United States will carry 2,000 passengers, [music] and if she's ever needed as a troop ship, she'll accommodate an entire division.
这艘客轮被称为“大U号”（the big U），是二战后岁月里美国雄心的丰碑。它比泰坦尼克号还要长，速度极快，以至于其最高航速曾是冷战时期的国家机密。在1952年其有史以来第一次跨大西洋往返航行中，它创下了一项保持至今的速度纪录。
英文原文
>> Known as the big U, the passenger ship was a monument to American ambition in the years after World War II. It was longer than the Titanic and so fast that its top speed was a Cold War state secret. On its first ever transatlantic round trip in 1952, it set a speed record that still stands today.对乘客而言，她不仅是一台机器，更是一座豪华的大酒店。
英文原文
>> To her passengers, she's not a machine, but a grand hotel.在20世纪50年代和60年代，这艘豪华客轮穿梭于纽约和欧洲之间，运送过总统、王室成员、移民和度假游客。
甚至在《蒙娜丽莎》被运往美国进行临时展览时，这幅画作也曾搭乘过该船。
不过它在远洋上的辉煌时期相对短暂，因为航空旅行迅速普及，这艘船最终被封存。它最终被系泊在费城的一个码头，在那里停放了数十年；期间曾有一系列将其改造成酒店或娱乐综合体的计划，但均告失败。
相反，它的最终篇章在佛罗里达州上演，当地一个县花费100万美元买下了这艘船，将其纳入该县一直在打造的海底沉船墓地，作为供鱼类栖息和潜水员探索的人工鱼礁。
让这艘船做好沉没准备是一个耗时数月的过程，包括抽干船体巨大的燃料舱，并在船体上额外切割孔洞，使整个设施对潜水员和海洋生物更加安全友好。
“合众国号”最初的设计师曾吹嘘说，你既无法点燃她、追上她，也无法击沉她。
某种程度上他是对的。
英文原文
>> Through the '50s and '60s, the luxurious ship ferried presidents, royalty, immigrants, and vacationers between New York and Europe.Even the Mona Lisa got a ride when the painting was brought to the US for temporary exhibitions.
Its reign on the high seas was relatively short-lived though because air travel picked up speed and the ship was eventually mothballed. It ended up tied to a Philadelphia pier where it sat for decades and there was a range of failed plans to give it a new life as a hotel or an entertainment complex.
Instead, its final chapter went down in Florida where a local county bought the ship for a million dollars to add it to an underwater ship graveyard the county's been building as an artificial reef for both fish and divers to explore.
Getting the ship ready to sink was a month-long process that involved pumping out the ship's massive fuel tanks and making the whole thing more diver and sea life friendly by cutting extra holes in the vessel.
The original designer of the SS United States used to brag that you couldn't set her on fire, you couldn't catch her, and you couldn't sink her.
He was right up to a point.
以上就是今天《每日新闻》的头条简报。稍后将带来更多围绕英伟达和黄仁勋下一步走向的探讨。
过去三年他像坐上了火箭。在所有这些问题突然公之于众之前，他简直从不犯错。
您可以在《纽约时报》应用程序或任何您收听播客的平台上收听完整内容。我是特雷西·芒福德。我们明天将带来最新消息和周五新闻问答。
英文原文
Those the headlines today on the Daily. More on [music] the questions swirling around what's next for Nvidia and Jensen Huang.[music]
He's been on a rocket ride the past 3 years. He could literally do no wrong until all of a sudden all this problematic spilled out into public view.
You can listen to that in the New York Times app or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow with the latest and the Friday news quiz.
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