Let's say you were China and wanted to undermine NVIDIA, this would certainly be one way to do it.. Initiate the affair, then make sure it blows up and the wife divorces and damages his reputation, business, etc.
Not that I'm suggesting this is what happened, but in this situation, "both sides" have motivations both for/against Jenson/Nvidia, and it would be silly to blindly trust what _either side_ says.
Whether you agree with his outlook or not, he was vocally against the current administrations' priorities/opinions. Undermining his opinions as "well he was convinced of that by a spy", or even just removing him from the position where he can have influence, helps the current US administration (which, notably, is not necessarily the same thing as helping the US)
I mean I think many things about Nvidia but one thing I do not think is that its CEO is an idiot.
I also think he will have had security advice that she might be, not least because Trump and Rubio knew a year ago.
Here is an easy guide to working out if someone could be a spy: if they are foreign, keen to get to know you, and they run a large enterprise that would be materially advantaged by having a way around the export controls on your products that impact the state where they were born and where they do business, they could be a spy.
Does it?
The results are ultimately Chinese data centres no matter where they are (Malaysia and Indonesia apparently).
But Megaspeed's parent company/backers build data centres in China and there is not enough (if you'll pardon the pun) of a Chinese wall between the things the parent builds and the subsidiary builds; they apparently shared the same promotional material.
All of this is stuff Jensen Huang does know. (Not saying you are doing this but) I think it's hilarious anyone is out there allowing for him to have an innocent "I was preyed on and could not have known" excuse. It doesn't stack up. He knows exactly what Megaspeed is.
Agreed. Note that I asserted that those reporting seem to drop the "could" that you added, and simply proclaim she's a spy. Spies tend to be secretive, so knowing whether she is, is a strong claim that requires strong evidence. As it's widespread, that suggests to me someone is raising this issue for personal gain. That's my gripe with current reporting.
I meant to say nothing about what Jensen should have done or not, though I see how it could be interpreted that way. Whether he's being used for someone's narrative in the media has little to do with if he's a victim or not.
I don’t know, you don’t know, but short of this being the US government shaming Jensen Huang to gain some leverage, it’s probably easier to go with the theory that she is an asset.
Either way it’s profoundly negligent on his part.
https://x.com/CulperResearch/status/2054624514193928695?a=_7...
It just got national attention after the NYT picked it up.
Jensen is a friend to China and has been relentless in promoting the interests of China - why would Chairman Xi want to undermine the man who advocates strongly to sell him GPUs and chips?
But it is still a great point.
Xi and Huang appear to be strongly and consistently aligned with respect to Chinese access to SOTA nVidia, each with their own natural motivations (no need for any conspiracy here).
Strong strategic alignment, even without conspiracy, is highly likely to result in independent uncoordinated acts of cooperation. Interesting dynamics can result. Any actor (national, international or "smaller") with interests in the technology competition will be watching this space closely. And some will act, for their own reasons.