Nvidia chief Jensen Huang is the center of a new controversy as the U.S. intelligence community believes that he had a romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy.

According to the Financial Times, Alice Huang, sometimes referred to as Huang Le, was a top executive at Singaporean firm Megaspeed and was reportedly romantically involved with the CEO of the world's largest AI chip manufacturer. Notably, Jensen is currently married to his wife of 41 years, Lori Huang.

It’s unclear whether Alice Huang was recruited by the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) before she joined Megaspeed or after she had already established a business relationship with Jensen, but it’s been reported that the suspected agent was apparently targeting the Nvidia head to help Chinese companies gain access to banned AI chips.

Megaspeed has been accused of smuggling $2 billion worth of AI chips into China via its subsidiary Speedmatrix, although Nvidia insists the company has no ties to China.

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[–] 70 points 17 hours ago (14 children)

Jensen Huang seems kind of dumb.

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  • [–] 60 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

    Yeah, there always was that notion that billionaires got where they are because they are really smart.

    Those attention seeking billionaires showed us that their wealth has nothing to do with being smart, they aren't any smarter than an average person, in fact most of the time they are dumber. They got where they are, because they already were wealthy and are not ethical.

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  • [–] 16 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    They got where they are because they are sociopaths and psychopaths. Nothing more.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Well, they shifted the playing field so even if you are a sociopath/psychopath but in a working class it is still unlikely you get there.

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  • [+] -12 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

    There is not a chance in the world that a billionaire ceo is dumber than the average person what are you smoking. Greedy, sociopathic, selfish, etc yes, but not dumb.

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  • [–] 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

    [TL;DR - Time, Place, Industry booms, and being from a wealthy enough family, have more to do with the current crop of tech billionaires].

    Occam, you have an oversized degree of faith in meritocracy. Most of them are either right time/place/company type deals - aided by rich parents and being somewhat able to Capitalize on local industry booms (sometimes generationally).

    How are you even claiming to measure intelligence? By standardized tests? That's not really applicable to what we're talking about (causes of wealth and opportunity). Money, time and place, and parentage are more pivotal than "intelligence" (whatever the hell that means).

    I mean Peter Thiel's parents were in mining in apathied Zambia, Elon Musk's father was also wealthy, involved with mining in a different African apathied county (so both have local booms/Colonialism, money, and family behind them). Jeff Bezos parents were wealthy enough to give him $300,000 for a business idea, and to send him to Stanford University. Peter Thiel's parents were wealthy enough to send him to Princeton University.

    The Huangs appear to have been wealthy enough to send their children to school in America for a Western education (a big deal for Taiwan which was receiving a boom in American funds at the time). His father was actually in the same line of work (Chemical Engineering) as Thiel's father.

    Actually a lot of these tech billionaires were also born in a specific era as well (1955 -1975) so their working lives/careers were peaking around the tech / dot com booms.

    The Huangs were in a position to flee communist China in the 1970s and chose to live under the ROC (which despite having 'Republic' in the name - was a rightwing millitary dictatorship up until the late 80s, hence received a lot of anti-communist American funding as a country).

    So you see, it's not some meritocracy of "intelligence" - it's being from a wealthy family, born at the right time, and already being in certain boom industries as those industries boom that gives most of these families/men a specific advantage. It's time, place, boom, and pre-existing wealth that are the drivers. Intelligence is secondary at best.

    I'm not a huge subscriber to the idea we even have a good concept of "intelligent" to go on. When I say he seems kind of dumb, it's associational. He has something about him that makes him seem kind of dumb. An affectation, type of expression. Musk and Bezos also have a bit of dumb guy energy too. Thiel - less so. He seems kind of mentally ill.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    I just think intelligence is a weird thing to attack billionaire ceos over, but if your point is more about different kinds of intelligence then I don't have an issue with it.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    Something about his face and the constant wearing of the same leather jacket makes me just think; this guy seems a little dumb. He's got something a little dumb about him.

    But you're right, no one's "intelligent" in all ways possible. Everyone's got their dumb.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago*

    I just think intelligence is a weird thing to attack billionaire ceos over

    Ok wait. Why is that a weird thing? They are getting away with destroying the world because so many morons believe they are geniuses.

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  • [–] 22 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Inexcusable.. to be caught in bed with the Huang woman.

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    These guys are so predictably dumb

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  • [–] 9 points 8 hours ago

    Oops! All Huangs.

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  • [–] 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    This the same intelligence community that told the world there was WMDs in Iraq?

    Feels like they want something to pressure Nvidia leadership with more than anything.

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    The problem with propaganda is that it generally only really works when there is a kernel of truth for it to be based on. Therefore you cannot simply completely dismiss something because it's propaganda. And in this case it's sort of whataboutism anyways.

    China is easily as bad with misinformation and propaganda. Yet I wouldn't dismiss everything they say out of hand just because of that. The problem with capitalists like China is that since the state has its fingers in all pies. It's hard to prove that the state wasn't involved in actions like this. Maybe it was the company doing this on its own. Maybe it wasn't. Either way is still a bad look that China shouldn't allow.

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  • [–] 5 points 13 hours ago

    Why woulda China give a shit? It wasn’t illegal to import these chips into China. Just illegal for Jensen to knowingly export them to China.

    This feels more like them saying “wow we investigated it and found you were tricked so it’s totally not your fault for purposely avoiding export bans. It’s all chinas fault.”

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  • [–] 8 points 10 hours ago

    Two billion in chips? So that’s like, what…a dozen RTX 5090s these days?

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago

    OK, we're finished using you now! Bye!

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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago

    He saw spy, thought of the S&P 500 and got hard.

    The rest is history

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago

    A real life Evelyn Parker.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago
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    [–] 66 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Two billion dollars worth of sales doesn't seem like the kind of thing any single person could be "fooled" into signing off on.

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    Almost reads like standard Chinese business practice to me. Not to defend any of these grifters. Also , theres some dry humour in the article:

    Notably, Jensen is currently married to his wife of 41 years

    “currently”, haha

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  • [–] 34 points 1 day ago

    It's always the ones you most expect.

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  • [–] 15 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    OMG, that's got to be dozens of 64GB sticks!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Was her opening line "I love leather... jackets"?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago

    US intelligence believes Stupid Jacket had romantic relationship with Chinese spy in honeypot operation — spy suspect linked to company accused of smuggling $2 billion in AI chips

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  • [–] 11 points 12 hours ago

    He thought she was really into leather jackets.

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  • [–] 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

    This is, 100%, without a doubt, just a way for him to avoid legal liability for doing things of his own free will. He wasn't complicit in smuggling! He was taken advantage of by that irresistible Chinese succubus! It's her fault!

    Now, I don't really care. I think it's great that he's bypassing US sanctions. Altho I would prefer China have its own domestic chip manufacturing and not buy from companies like this, but until that is fully developed they need to get by somehow. But yeah this is the most obvious scapegoating I've ever seen.

    In fact, I'd like NOBODY to buy from companies like this. NVIDIA should crash and fucking burn.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago*

    Ah yes, because NVIDIA's Huang famously never closed his eyes to smuggling without a blowjob. He also never lobbied US gov't to let him sell chips to China.

    What's this bullshit trying to accomplish, launder Jensen's image as a US patriot or something? Or is this insurance against being dragged in court by the democrats for “睜一隻眼閉一隻眼“ (“Open One Eye, Close One Eye”)?

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago

    OK, we're finished using you now! Bye!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    industrial espionage of course.

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    I wonder if he wrote his apology letter or if he has Ai do it for him.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    IMO, this is probably a lie manufactured by the Trump Regime. Trump just wants to steal Jensen's fortune, and to punish a "china man" for daring to do well in life.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Another pathetic loser, sociopathic manipulative piece of shit. Should be bullied to suicide. Fuck the lot of them.

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  • [–] 0 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    Indict that bitch!

    The value of the chips is probably less important than the possession of them that allows them to reverse engineer them, if they haven't already.

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  • [+] -6 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

    the president is married to a russian woman lol

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  • [–] 5 points 9 hours ago* (3 children)

    Everything east of Poland is a type of Russia, like everything south of the US border is a type of Mexico

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 child)

    Slovenia is south west of Poland. I'm starting to doubt your expertise.

    And Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania might beg to disagree, not to mention Ukraine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago*

    He goofed with Slovenia's location, but no, that last part is the joke. Hence Mexico.

    As an example, Bethesda (last I checked) only provided Russian versions of Fallout: New Vegas to Poland and other Slavic countries in the general area. It's not consisent, some could change language and just had different forums/mods, while others claimed there was only Russian, but you get the idea. Apparently other games like Dishonored had that issue too, but that example stuck to me.

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    [–] 35 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Takeaway: America failed at information control because Jensen failed to control his Huang

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  • [–] 47 points 10 hours ago (11 children)

    Yeah, but “trust me bro “

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  • [–] 31 points 10 hours ago* (7 children)

    I mean, this is the Trump Intelligence Bureau, so I'm taking it with a grain of salt.

    Mostly just seems to be Huang trying to sell hardware in China by end running the US sanctions. And rather than actually sanctioning Huang, we're getting this hysteria aimed at his girlfriend.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (5 children)

    Sure but power shifts each election. Is the fact that this happened post blue tsunami a coincidence?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Power shifts each election? As long as you have establishment candidates rotating, you're just swapping scapegoats. At most you can say "subgroups of Western oligarchs and foreign players have relatively gained in power/reach, whilst others have lost some".

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  • [–] 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

    I don't get it. What is the problem? He made a deal. It's a great deal. People say, maybe even the best deal ever made. I's gonna make Nvidia great again!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    I saw the pictures he so got honey potted!

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    [–] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Ok, but that's like 4 chips at today's prices.

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago

    Good for them.

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