Alleged Chinese spy had 'close relationship' with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang

Timpanzee

Sounds like a good Chinese spy. Jensen Huang is the exact kind of relationship I would want my spies to foster if I was China.

tehjoker

"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." 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.

2OEH8eoCRo0

> US authorities have been investigating Megaspeed over suspicions that it helped Chinese firms circumvent US export restrictions and smuggle advanced Nvidia chips into China, the Times reported.

pr337h4m

This is an apparent nothingburger with zero hint of anything outside plain old business schmoozing on Jensen's part. 'Close relationship' is a really good weasel word (weasel phrase?).

zkmon

Sounds like a Bond movie plot.

lurk2

This is why courtiers were provided with state-mandated GFs for all of human history up until about 40 years ago.

nostrademons

This article has the flavor of a strategic political leak by the Trump administration, likely a prelude to blackmail to get NVidia to do something friendly to the administration. You don't have multiple "people briefed on the surveillance, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the findings are drawn from classified intelligence" unless someone high-up in the CIA is greenlighting the leak; that's a crime punishable by decades in prison. And then the whole article has the flavor of "We appreciate your continued support, Jensen, we know you have been a strong ally in public, but if you think of defying us we will hit you with espionage charges and throw you in jail. Look, the groundwork is already in the NYTimes." 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.

markus_zhang

I doubt Jensen is completely out of the scheme TBH.

jurschreuder

A spy?! Almost half the people working in usa big tech are asian. If it tips over 50% you could call the white people the spies in asian companies located in usa

autoexec

If she is a spy I doubt china gave her much choice. I wonder if they paid her or just threatened her loved ones. Either way, she had to hang out with Jensen Huang, poor woman.

Poudlardo

poor jensen huang he was obviously tricked by this malicious spy and has nothing to do with any of this (/s)

lakeviewterrace

He should call Eric Swalwell for advice.

Varelion

I would be very interesting in seeing who this spy is, and what her relationship with him was.

aurareturn

Looks like McCarthyism is back on the menu. Big media is out in force to push a narrative.

paxy

> Roughly a year ago, Mr. Trump was briefed about the intelligence findings, which have not been previously reported, and chose not to do anything with the information. Mr. Trump has been wary of disrupting Nvidia’s chip sales, which are helping to drive the economy and the stock market, and of further complicating the trading relationship with China. Lmao

greenchair

Perhaps she is the one who makes him wear that mid life crisis jacket?

brcmthrowaway

Has Jensen ever expressed an interest or personality? 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.

lakeviewterrace

When is this industry going to have an open, honest discussion about how not getting enough trim in your younger years makes you especially vulnerable to these schemes once you acquire power and wealth? I've seen 80 variations of this same story over the years.

laimewhisps

Given that China is releasing open weight, self-hostable models I'd far rather NVIDIA work with them than with the US and the closed source model providers. I'd rather have a Chinese model running on my own machine with NVIDIA hardware than an Anthropic/OpenAI/X model running in a data center somewhere, for multiple reasons.

zetazzed

Super weird that the only relationship documented in this article is two "dinners with AI executives in Asia." Does that count as a close relationship? I get invited to AI dinners in the Bay Area nonstop, and I understand they are always transactional (people wanting to sell me stuff), not actual relations with people who just happen to enjoy my presence...