There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is just a hit piece - IE, they were looking to paint Nvidia and Jensen in some bad light and found a vague lead. Didn't matter if the evidence isn't substantial. Just publish and smear first.
> 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...