The US intelligence community is still working to understand the relationship between a Chinese businesswoman who had an affair with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and the Chinese government, with multiple sources telling CNN that the intelligence collected on her to date does not prove that she was acting as a spy for Beijing.

There is disagreement among US officials about the strength of the evidence that Alice Huang was recruited by the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS), the Chinese equivalent of the CIA, to spy on Jensen Huang — and, by extension, on US policymakers.

The FBI has been investigating Huang’s affair for at least a year. But Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Thursday that there are still “no conclusions reached by the Department of Justice, or by me, or by [FBI] Director Patel around who she is or is not.” President Donald Trump also hedged Thursday on whether the US had determined she was a spy, when commentator Stephen A. Smith asked whether Huang was right to have stepped down as CEO.

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Whether or not she was technically a Chinese spy honestly seems irrelevant to me... What happened here wasn't espionage in the conventional sense, it was just a regular criminal conspiracy. Jensen was loudly advocating against export controls on GPUs back in 2022, before he supposedly even met Alice Huang for the first time. He was looking for a way to circumvent export controls and keep revenues growing, and her company had the perfect setup to do it. Who cares if China set up and provided all of the capital for that company? Even a little bit of diligence on the part of Nvidia would have exposed Megaspeed as a front. They knew, and they sold them the GPUs anyway — no spying required.

The fact Jensen probably fucked her is spicy gossip and certainly a dark smear on his character as a husband and father, but it wasn't some honeypot. He already wanted to sell the most GPUs possible. The point is that Jensen conspired with her to circumvent US export controls and that he knew what he was doing.

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