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China targets everyone of consequence, of course they targeted Jensen. This may be a 'game of thrones' nefarious move by hostile foreign or domestic parties who want to wrest defacto control, perhaps angle to put their puppet in control, or otherwise leverage Nvidia by taking down its Founder and CEO. It is completely unproven and should not be assumed that Jensen nor Nvidia took part in anything untoward at all. Historically, Jensen doesn't do stupid. So whether you like him or not, I do not believe he would be that stupid.

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Not necessarily untoward from a national security point of view - but he’s admitted to the affair. (Gift link: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/d8a218...)

Wow, this is big news. I feel this should be its own submission.

Regrettably this share link is not letting me read the article.

Sorry, the link only works for a limited number of views. Seems like other outlets have picked up the story now: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/nvidias-jensen-hua...

No, Jensen has admitted in a memo to employees he had an affair.

> should not be assumed that Jensen nor Nvidia took part in anything untoward at all

The punishment for the cover-up often exceeds that for the crime.

We don’t have evidence around whether Huang is compromised with China. We do have compelling evidence that he tried to minimize fall-out, or potentially even sweep under the rug the problem, after finding out the true identity of this woman. If he did it with Trump, that’s corruption in service of a national-security compromise.

Isn't everyone having an affair part of a cover-up? I wouldn't consider it an affair if it was known and out in the open, affair implies keeping it secret in my opinion at least.

> Isn't everyone having an affair part of a cover-up?

You're right. The problem is how he involved Nvidia in covering up for him.

Huang had an affair with a customer. He then had spokespeople say "the company that employed Ms. Huang, Megaspeed, was like any other regional customer" [1]. Just this Friday he had Nvidia lie for him: "Mr. Huang’s interactions with Ms. Huang were 'not unusual' and consistent with the kinds of meetings he has with any of Nvidia’s many customers" [2]. If that were the whole story this would be a massive breach of fiduciary duty.

Then we learn Ms. Huang was a Chinese spy. While Jensen was advocating for looser restrictions on selling AI chips to China. While Jensen was selling chips to Megaspeed that were being publicly investigated for re-shipping to China.

And he decides to come clean about this after control of the Congress flips in a way that guarantees his secrets will come out.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/politics/chinese-spy-a...

Well I'm certainly not saying what he may have done okay, my point was simply that I'd see all affairs as involving cover-ups.

With regards to whether others in the company helped hide it, though, that's on them. Your boss can tell you to do something, you still have to agree and then actually choose to do it.

Affairs are normally secret, a cover-up implies others find out and are induced or choose to collude to keep it secret.

> China targets everyone of consequence, of course they targeted Jensen.

Yes, but they aren't investing him because he was "targetted" in the abstract. They're investigating him because the operation was extremely successful.

Dude was literally fucking a spy. As it were.

Successful at what?

Alleged spy.

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