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

https://nypost.com/2026/10/29/business/alleged-chinese-spy-had-close-relationship-with-nvidia-boss-jensen-huang-report/
111•mgh2•2h ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-..., https://archive.ph/K7bih

Comments

Timpanzee•54m ago
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.
wadayano•51m ago
You’d be a pretty shit spy agency if you didn’t have agents at least in these people’s orbits.
blondie9x•45m ago
We know what he sought in her.
lurk2•27m ago
It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals. The marginal boost to economic productivity isn’t worth the threat these people pose to national security; the Chinese understand this, so why don’t Americans?
throwaway384034•16m ago
China is high IQ. It is one of the top countries you will want to brain drain from.
Avicebron•10m ago
This is nonsense, China has a massive population, like india. So they have some benefits when it comes to distributions.
AlecSchueler•11m ago
Until recently the US was on the side of international cooperation. It's not only a pity that this has changed but it's sad to see that people are completely forgetting this, as well as seemingly forgetting the incredibly bloody history that we had to endure before embracing the idea of respectful cooperation.

Now China is the grown-up in the room while the US is running around like a maniac in Venezuela, Iran, and wherever else

slowin•22m ago
Kind of like Jeffery Epstein and his relationship with Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman...
peri-cl•10m ago
Or Cami Clark and her relationships with Jeffrey Epstein, Eric Schmidt, Dario Amodei...
tehjoker•45m ago
"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.

MetalBreaksAndB•37m ago
"Nvidia Corporation[a] (/ɛnˈvɪdiə/ en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company"
ActionHank•32m ago
That's the thing about capitalism, businesses can sell to customers.
ActionHank•31m ago
No idea why you're getting down voted here. People are obviously willfully ignorant that a business would not be interested in doing business and making money, they really don't care who the customer is or why they're spending.
2OEH8eoCRo0•36m ago
> 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.
ActionHank•25m ago
lol, honestly this is so stupid, did they really think that the GPUs wouldn't have wound up there?
2OEH8eoCRo0•17m ago
If might be stupid but it was the law. Did Jensen know that superspeed were sending chips to china and still sold to them?

What did Jensen know and when did he know it?

He should be forced to testify in front of congress.

ActionHank•5m ago
If they start pursuing the law the entire administration is gonna have a hard time.
pr337h4m•36m ago
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?).
Gabriel_Martin•8m ago
weaselwhistle
zkmon•36m ago
Sounds like a Bond movie plot.
slowin•28m ago
It sounds like anti-Chinese propaganda. This is the NY Post we're talking about.
boringg•19m ago
Its headline of the NYT - not sure we have ny post version of the article here.
slowin•17m ago
This NYT? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller

The headline is from the Post article, not the NYT version is much better.

lurk2•32m ago
This is why courtiers were provided with state-mandated GFs for all of human history up until about 40 years ago.
nostrademons•30m ago
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.

peri-cl•25m ago
> "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.

ActionHank•23m ago
The models are still on AA, not sure what you mean
peri-cl•20m ago
They're not? They are no longer benchmarked, and not available on any of the charts (not even manually).

Their benchmarks have been replaced with "N/A" for several days now,

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-flash-next

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash/

markus_zhang•30m ago
I doubt Jensen is completely out of the scheme TBH.
jurschreuder•27m ago
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
dgellow•24m ago
The article has nothing to do with race.
talon8635•19m ago
Lol what on earth?
autoexec•26m ago
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•24m ago
poor jensen huang he was obviously tricked by this malicious spy and has nothing to do with any of this (/s)
lakeviewterrace•21m ago
He should call Eric Swalwell for advice.
estearum•10m ago
What would Swalwell know?

Swalwell was targeted by Fang Fang in 2012 when he was on Dublin, California's city council and running for his first term in the House of Reps.

When he was by the FBI to Fang Fang's ties, he immediately cooperated with the FBI's investigation and did exactly what they requested.

Thinking Swalwell made any mistake whatsoever is a great shibboleth for a Twitterbrained midwit.

Varelion•19m ago
I would be very interesting in seeing who this spy is, and what her relationship with him was.
aurareturn•17m ago
Looks like McCarthyism is back on the menu. Big media is out in force to push a narrative.
paxy•16m ago
> 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•15m ago
Perhaps she is the one who makes him wear that mid life crisis jacket?
brcmthrowaway•7m ago
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.

ActionHank•6m ago
Oh I see, sorry, I just went as far as checking they were still on the site, didn't check the details.

That is really weird given how widely used they are.

UncleOxidant•24m ago
What about this part: "President Trump was briefed and took no action." ?
ActionHank•22m ago
Needs to check in with daddy putin first.
nostrademons•19m ago
It's implicitly "President Trump was briefed and took no action yet."

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.

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