Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang
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However, they have always been remarkably factual. They always verify everything they publish is true.
This was also true and widely known back in 2013.
China bad works for the American audience I suppose.
There are literally thousands of these 'sources' for every NOC on a targeted mission. Many of these sources aren't even paid, they're just predisposed to be friendly to the nation who wants the info and willing to pass along things they see or hear in exchange for a favor or access. Most of what they pass along is irrelevant and useless impressions or chatter but it's all captured and cross-referenced by analysts.
When Jensen makes a two day visit to some Asian country like Singapore, he probably has over a dozen meetings including various local employees, distributors, vendors, govt agencies or media contacts. Nvidia's posture and distribution plans in Asia are of great interest to China, since they're trying to divert a good chunk of those GPUs to China. I have no doubt the Chinese (and other intel agencies) got reports from over half a dozen different sources regarding what happened during Jensen's visit.
Jensen is very smart and has a lot of experience. He knows he's a high-value target and everyone is info gathering on him. Hypothetically, even if he was banging the hot, young distributor rep when visiting Singapore (and I doubt he is), she wouldn't get any actionable intel. Not because she might send an email report to Chinese intelligence but because she'll certainly give a detailed report to her bosses at the distributor. All of NVidia's distributors are trying to glean any competitive insight or favor from NVidia they can.
First, does her activity actually fit the definition of “espionage”?
Espionage is the act of secretly gathering confidential, classified, or proprietary information without the owner's permission
The most important question is what she actually sent and how secret it was. Most companies have levels of secrecy ranging from non public to highly sensitive. For example, schematics of their chip would be concerning.
Also, this seems pretty different from setting up a mic behind a TV.
Second, although the article tries very hard to imply there was some kind of infidelity, adding irrelevant details about Jensen’s family, I don’t know that any of that happened.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-...
Though the NYT article should be the primary one, not the ny post one.
I view them all as ideologically captured propaganda and tools of political interests. I'm also perfectly fine with that. What bothers me is denial from them and their ardent readers that they are not actually "fair and balanced" or objective on stories that can be used to score political points.
The picture in the article has a bunch of other people around them, in a bar/club. Pretty sure he wasn’t laying out the blueprints for the next chip right then and there.
> Mr. Huang has not received a defensive briefing, warnings sometimes given to Americans who are being targeted by foreign intelligence services, people briefed on the surveillance said.
It’s essentially saying intelligence was gathered that a Chinese asset was close to Jensen and absolutely nothing was done about it.
And by that, I mean...
He's the CEO of a company that is in it's second of 15-ish years 'selling shovel' booms. The guy who's motto has been 'We are 30 days from going out of business' for... about-ish 30 years.
Corporate espionage should have been a concern for a good part of that in his communications.
We have no clue what actually happened. For all we know it's a case of 'he was warned, his internal security groups already knew, and they were feeding useless info the whole time'.
We have on the record sources saying that he was not warned by the government. Hence me saying this is a story about government failure.
I realize that's an unsatisfactory answer for many. But it's how journalism has to work sometimes.
> We have on the record sources
You are not on the record if you are anonymous.
> On-the-record, in journalism, means anything in a communication may be publicly disclosed
> "On the record": all that is said can be quoted and attributed.
> "Unattributable": what is said can be reported but not attributed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_(journalism)#Speaking_t...
I'll go as far as to say it's a right wing agitation propaganda rag. But the story first appeared in the NY Times, as another commenter has linked here,, so it's possible that the story may be accurate (though undoubtedly the nypost has sensationalized it, as that's their specialty), but both things can be true simultaneously. The NY Post can be trash and this series of events might have really happened.
Also, New York Post? Let's do better.
If NYT was honest, at some point in the past decade it would have acknowledged that one of the primary reporters on its Donald Trump beat was the daughter of an executive VP at the long-time PR firm of Fred and Donald Trump.
https://nypost.com/2012/12/05/a-picture-of-controversy/
There's a man that fell off the subway platform, about to get killed by the subway train, and the New York post photographer saw a great opportunity for a photo op for his employer instead of, y'know helping the guy out. Sure, the NYT has had its fair share of scandals but the NY Post isn't well respected for a whole other level of malfeasance.
https://fair.org/home/20-years-later-nyt-still-cant-face-its...
The NY Post is crass, we all know that. But if that's your best example of their malfeasance, then I guess they aren't that evil after all.
The issues you allude to don’t create an equivalence, except in the minds of people with no capacity for discernment whatsoever.
I doubt the NY Post would even deny they are a trashy tabloid. It's their whole thing and understanding that is how you make money in that game.
About the DDoS, were they not aimed at someone trying to dox the maintainer and pretty much ruin their life? Sounds like defending to me, not attacking. I have absolutely no problem contributing my bandwidth to their defense while visiting the site.
What did Jensen know and when did he know it?
He should be forced to testify in front of congress.
On that note, they never worked on french spies as infidelity and sex stuff hold seemingly zero leverage over french men.
This may be entirely unfair framing of course.
Tell that to Jean-Luc Brunel.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/31/jp-morgan-j...
$1 billion for trafficking would be 100,000 trafficking victims at a rate of $10,000 per victim, which is claimed by LLMs and some Internet sites. It does not make sense and looks like another operation where ironically the trafficking was the cover.
In other words, we know nothing about the real dynamics that led to the "suicides" of Epstein and Brunel.
prostitues, esp. fancy government ones, only have to work 2 hours a day, on their back. low chance of dying. and getting laid, albeit maybe not your ideal partner.
EDIT: Looks like link now points to NYT
Paragraph 2 from the New York Post article:
“The woman, Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, is a Chinese citizen who has served as a top executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, an Nvidia customer and cloud partner that provides AI computing power to Chinese companies including Alibaba, the New York Times reported Thursday.”
> This account is based on interviews with people briefed on the surveillance, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the findings are drawn from classified intelligence, as well as other officials and industry executives and analysts.
It very literally is. A biography on Thomas Jefferson will list sources. It would be beyond nonsense to suggest the book has no sources because it didn't talk to a dead man.
> The source would be whoever the New York Times talked to
That would be their source. Someone complaining about the Post should know the difference.
Res ipsa loquitor
The technology is honey for the flies of geopolitics.
Do you think that when Jensen talks to Sam Altman or Amodei they don't chat on the phone with Donald Trump?? This is just a smear.
Claude was already used in offensive operations in Iran and Venezuela. Why on earth would I want America to have a commanding lead on this? So we can drone strike anyone who disagrees with renaming the Pacific the "American Ocean"?
Just beyond words.
Lmao
I've seen 80 variations of this same story over the years.
Huh?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trim (second noun sense, def #8)
Despite his other failings you have to give Zuck credit for genuinely being a wholesome wifeguy by all appearances.
That seems like either the behavior of an extremely devoted husband or the behavior of a husband who cheats shamelessly and then gives her showy gifts to "make up for it"
I think the wife hates it.
Many of those with options see it as a badge of pride to stay loyal. One of those, ya I could if I wanted to but hey look I have self control…most of the time.
I would at least like to see some statistics on how much early adulthood behaviour predicts particular later life behaviours before making any conclusions.
Rather than characterising things as 'getting enough trim' perhaps a broader education in dealing with the emotions of life might be more productive.
I think it has much less to do with any individual's sexual history and much more to do with the rapacious/hypersexual elite culture in USA and elsewhere.
On the flip side novels have been written about the lies people tell themselves when they get romantically entangled with obvious troublemakers. Those plots didn't come from nowhere...
From what I have seen the truth is closer to the opposite; that you don't get it out of your system. You get it into your system. I'm afraid that if one truly wants to avoid these scandals you're better off following the Mike Pence playbook, not the Tony Stark one.
Once you open pandoras box, you dont put it back in. It doesnt matter what age.
The whole, they didnt get enough when younger, sounds like a very strange weird explanation that falls flat when you think for more than 5s about it.
Anyway, here's an actual study about sociosexuality that followed 288 men and those that got married and had kids showed a decrease in casual sex vs men who didn't.
What is the point of the study? I have seen it before. What does it prove?
I don't sure there is any connection. It is the same things regardless of your popularity in younger years.
To me, he seems the platonic ideal of the immigrant Bay Area tech worker. There's absolutely nothing inside besides the will and drive to succeed at work.
Makes me wonder what the next headline is going to be, probably some deal between NVidia and the federal government over export restrictions or something.
Chinese models disappearing from HuggingFace (recently acquired by Nvidia).
GLM-flash and Qwen-next disappeared from ArtificialAnalysis (the top benchmark site) a few days ago; I was wondering if that was a prelude to something greater. Testing the waters.
Their benchmarks have been replaced with "N/A" for several days now,
That is really weird given how widely used they are.
These comparison charts missing two of the most popular models are defective.
(Also, these two happen to be "flash" models, which are among the fastest and cheapest to run benchmarks on. Pennies per task).
For one, the US doesn't do anti-trust these days, just pay off uncle-trump to get your way.
Two, there are tons of model providers.
You don't write about it in the NYTimes unless there's a purpose. That purpose is leverage. If you're negotiating, you don't blow all your leverage upfront; you subtly let the other party know you have it, and then wait to see if they play ball. If they don't, that's when you apply pressure.
The headline is from the Post article, not the NYT version is much better.