Nvidia is doing an investigation of Jensen Huang being targeted in an intelligence operation; ie, an investigation of something that happened to him.
The title implies that Jensen Huang is the target of Nvidia's investigation.
"XXX is being investigated" implies there's some kind of possible wrongdoing here.
There might be some of that, but this is not likely the focus of the investigation.
They're investigating a potential influence operation involving the CEO, which may overlap with investigating some kind of culpability on his part.
It's an unfair editorial headline.
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Here is the literal source:
"" initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort.""
Jensen is not specifically under investigation, if anything the language is sympathetic to him being the target of a foreign Op.
The US government is investigating Alice Huang (not Jensen) for obvious reasons.
Obviously the 'bar' is different for the CEO than for someone acting with criminal intent, but it's not far to say that Jensen is under investigation.
There clearly is some "possible wrongdoing here", hence the investigation which has been launched if for no other purpose than to rule that out.
> They're investigating a potential influence operation involving the CEO
They're not investigating what we already know. The presence of a spy leaves no doubt that Huang was the target of an influence operation, the primary concern now are the details of Huang's conduct with respect to being targeted.
This is false and basically slander.
The statement from Nvidia indicates no such thing.
They are investigating the fact that Jensen was the target of a Foreign Intelligence Operation - literally those are the words.
The target of the government's investigation is her (Alice Huang) not him.
They are not 'investigating Jensen', it's an unfair misrepresentation.
New York Times (paywalled) is happy to call it an investigation into the CEOs conduct. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/technology/nvidia-investi...
A Board independently investigating its CEO with outside counsel absolutely communicates they think he may have fucked up. You don't do that in the normal course of affairs.
They are not 'investigating the CEO' - they are investigating the situation.
In the press release they are investigating the fat that Jensen 'was the target of an operation'.
I think the misrepresentative nature of your comment proves my point.
What experience or reporting are you basing this on?
> They are not 'investigating the CEO' - they are investigating the situation
This is how all independent investigations by a Board are phrased. Because half the time, you don't fire the CEO. Would you say walking into a meeting where you have a 50% chance of being fired is a nothing burger?
> the misrepresentative nature of your comment proves my point
I think I'm pretty clearly representing what a lot of folks on this thread are misunderstanding, willfully or ignorantly, about the nature of this sort of a Board action.
If this was primarily an investigation of the external actors, this would be talking about what law enforcement are doing.
The wording of the announcement is pretty neutral but I think it's clear what is within and without their bailiwick. The title is a much more informative description than "Statement from the board".
They don't need to, but of course they can. You hire investigators and an outside law firm to dig stuff up.
Do you seriously think NVidia wants to have more eyeballs on this scandal?
Source:
"initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort."
They are investigating a situation where their CEO was the target of an Op - that's totally reasonable and doesn't remotely hint that he has done something wrong.
This is the right thing for the board to do: "We are investigating the situation because we have been informed that foreign actors may have targeted our staff".
This is Jensen Huang we are talking about. One of the most significantly influential people on earth right now, one of the planet’s most obvious espionage and blackmail targets, someone who both companies and nations will be spying on, and he is shagging a foreign national — a Chinese citizen! — in secret.
Even if he has enlisted no company employees or resources in his deception of his wife, this is remarkably negligent behaviour on a professional level. Just enormous.
Be serious: this is a huge deal and they are for sure looking at his conduct.
What I am extra curious about is why is Alice Huang not being rigorously investigated prior to or alongside all of this? If these allegations are true then what she did amounts to treason and a variety of other things. Failing to register as a foreign agent is another. She, at the very least, should be held by the US the same way we hold other foreign nationals charged with treason.
There are 100 different ways that the CEO falling victim to an espionage plot could impact the business.
> I, as a shareholder, do not care if the CEO is having an affair so long as the business is not affected. If you can establish the latter, then his personal conduct is between him and his partner.
If you read the second sentence then you and I agree. I care if the business is affected, I don't if it is not and then the rest of this is a personal matter that doesn't need to be a news story because it is gossip.
This is actually a pretty challenging standard, because the moment the CEO tries to gaslight their spouse/partner that it's not an affair, they are already at risk of bringing the company into a deception: working late is almost always the cover, for one thing. But at that moment you have a substantially compromised person as a CEO.
This might seem a silly place to draw the line, but consider what the escalations are — the CEO's PA being asked to mislead the spouse, inventing a meeting they were at, inventing an away trip, etc. etc.; they always mount up. There is no executive who has an affair who doesn't pretend they are at work, and there's no pretence that doesn't ultimately put an employee in a difficult position.
It's entirely reasonable for a board to say that if the CEO or the chairman is having an affair it is their business.
And this is before you even consider that the affair is ordinarily likely to be with an employee.
Now, if a CEO at Huang's level of geopolitical importance is having an affair with anyone, it's the government's business, and the shareholders', because it makes them a (local and international, commercial and state-level) blackmail and espionage target even if they are not literally boffing a spy, which in this case he evidently is.
So yeah, it matters.
This is really naive. And I bet other people could do other questionable things that you'd consider to color their entire character and render them untrustworthy.
It is bad for business. Thats all. Him doing this is bad for Nvidia and bad for shareholders.
Cheating shareholders, esp large ones is a big no no since there are real consequences for CEOs engaging in such behaviour.
There's no indication that there's nonconsent involved, nor any actual espionage. this is a way to impress upon someone a set of moral code that is arbitrary and capricious with extreme social coercion. To judge by that standard is pretty close to the anti-gay hysteria of the McCarthyist era. Enough is enough.
And it's not like "McCarthyists" invented the concept of adultery being bad. Almost every major culture developed the concept independently. The Abrahamic religions, Chinese confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism had little contact with each other 2,000 years ago, but all developed the notion of adultery as a major moral transgression.
> While the Board has no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised, the Board's inquiry will examine all available information.
> Jensen fully supports the review and has committed to cooperating with it.
> The Board has confidence in Jensen and his leadership team and will provide further updates as appropriate.
My interpretation of this is simply this is what you do when you are the board of a public company and the U.S. government has accused your CEO of being the target of espionage. You need to get the facts, if only to cover your own asses. If it turns out the accusations are hogwash, then you have facts of your own that you can release to counter whatever hogwash the government puts out. If it turns out your CEO committed a crime or otherwise did something improper, then you need to dismiss the CEO to prevent your complicity in the crime. If it turns out there holes in your security protocols around top executives, you need to plug those holes.
But until you have the facts, coming from an independent investigation, neither they nor us have any clue what the right response is.
No, it's not. In a majority of cases where a public-company Board independently investigates its CEO, the CEO gets removed [1]. (And they're all announced like this. If you're in that 40% where you don't remove the CEO, you don't want to have burned them.)
If the Board still unconditionally trusted Jensen, they'd have him hire outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation of NVIDIA's security apparatus.
[1] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/s...
Yes, 40% is pretty high in the abstract. But a 60% chance of getting removed is insanely high compared to the base rate for this concrete case! Before this news broke, what were the odds of Huang not being a CEO of Nvidia a year from now for any reason. I'd definitely have taken the under at 1%, and the over maybe at 0.1%?
Like, what other risks were on the horizon? Him getting bored or tired? Not that man. A terminal illness that was diagnosed too late to treat? That happens very rarely for the ultra rich with their access to infinite high quality health care. A freak accident, e.g. airplane crash? Possible, but the rates are <<1%. Targeted violence? Unlikely, Nvidia is too far removed to be hated that strongly by anyone. The board firing him for some other reason? It'd have to be something that can't be papered over with hush money (e.g. any standard sex scandal almost certainly could; it's only the national security aspects that make it impossible here). A hostile takeover or similar that leads to him being ousted? Logistically and financially impossible.
Going from so rare it's not worth planning for to even odds is a pretty darn big shift from a single event!
It's very low for a CYA exercise.
Boards don't independently investigate their CEOs as a matter of routine or to cover their asses. That's what an independent investigation by outside counsel is for. The Board taking the reins on this is absolutely substantial to anyone who understands how corporate Boards work.
Another way to put this is "Do you feel comfortable shorting NVDA tomorrow morning based on this news?" Because if Huang is removed it's very likely they will face challenges finding and reacting the next big use-case for GPUs, not to mention capitalizing on AI (which already is seeming shaky for other reasons). If you're completely confident that this will result in his removal, it seems like there's easy money to be made here.
Personally I don't feel comfortable enough to put my money where my mouth is. I'd give it even odds, but even odds, to me, is not enough to say it'll go one way or another.
Huang has done a fine job managing NVidia, but he's also the poster child for "better lucky than good."
It's not like he led NVidia out of dire straits to pivot into the cryptocurrency/blockchain, and then AI, bubbles. They were making hardware for computer graphics, and that just so happened to be the same foundational hardware for the two biggest technology bubbles of the 21st century, twice in a row.
I find it hard to believe NVidia's incredible success can be attributed exclusively to him. Sometimes you're just in the right place at the right time.
It’s a bit like when you watch a fantastic FPS player play, they just always seem to be in the right place to catch the other guy off guard.
Huang didn’t know exactly what was coming - but he knew enough and managed to put NV into a position where it could quickly exploit whatever did emerge.
If I ever hit a home run in baseball, it would be blind luck. If I did it twice, nah, that would be incredibly unlikely, as I have zero talent at any ball sports.
Gates, Jobs, and Musk - each had a home run 3 times. That is so unlikely to be happenstance, ya gotta admit they had talent.
If you look at the evolution of GPGPU computing, at least from an HPC perspective, CUDA is almost an obvious step. What’s perplexing is that AMD and Intel let it get so far ahead in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
This is a silly way to read corporate governance. There exist finer levers for tuning up and down exposure than going long or short.
> If you're completely confident that this will result in his removal
Straw man. Nobody argued this.
What's being argued is that the top comment's implication–that this is par for the course–is bullshit. The Board is signaling a partial loss of confidence in their CEO. There is also substantial risk, though no assurance, that Jensen will step down.
> I'd give it even odds
That's what about 50% chances mean.
That is different from the fact that the allegation is that a malicious actor targeted him.
Those aren’t mutually exclusive things.
They need to complete the investigation to decide whether he was an active participant.
Its like you’re assuming an investigation is done after someone is determined to be guilty, rather than being done as a means to make the determination.
The board would be more concerned with his conduct as a CEO and whether he's still best to lead the company.
Having an affair didn't happen to him, he presumably was fully aware of what he was doing there.
The Board should be investigating two things: if Jensen knowingly lied to the Board and if he corruptly colluded to suppress any government’s investigation into Alice Huang.
If the answer to both is no, he is a man who got duped and compromised America and Taiwan’s national security. Still, perhaps, a great founder and CEO. Send him to marriage counseling and have his security detail report to the Board.
If the answer to either is yes, he should resign, personally indemnify the company against shareholder lawsuits, and switch focus to defending himself against criminal charges (and working on his marriage or divorce, as it might be).
It can be mitigated. Lying cannot.
No lie here.
absurd claim with zero evidence to support it. if there was any evidence that he actually compromised US national security he would already be gone. there isn't even any evidence that the woman is a Chinese asset. that is just speculation from whatever felons leaked their illegal surveillance of a US citizen's private life.
It's likely the story coming out like this is the best mitigation they can come up with, if AI is a national security interest of the US and he's granting a Chinese asset access to said interests. He's already conspiring with a foreign government against the interests of the US.
That he's extremely visible in his role is probably the only reason he's still around, until next week or whenever. The US doesn't vanish prominent CEOs like that, that's more a China thing.
The stock is massively up under his leadership. Firing Jensen would cause a massive loss of personal wealth to everyone on that Board. You don't even want to announce an investigation like this unless you're personally scared of getting implicated in a potential cover-up.
Seriously? Our intelligence community and corporate governance is just operating in perfect shape right now?
> there isn't even any evidence that the woman is a Chinese asset
Lol got it.
okay that's a joke in this administration right, the sitting American president is a threat to American national security and they made a woman who took private trips to Assad the Director of National Intelligence. If you're capable of selling out American national interests to foreign autocrats chances are that'll you'll be appointed special envoy and get a promotion rather than the opposite
The admin definitely stinks but Tulsi is one of the cleaner ones.
https://2017-2021.state.gov/amendments-to-the-terrorist-desi...
They are 1) covering their butts 2) placating external influences (probably state dept) 3) trying to find out what happened, but not have it be exposed 4) Avoiding risk of their Goose laying Golden Eggs at all costs.
The man is bringing them gazillions, they are not going to flip him over like a cheezeburger.
He's replacable but it comes with gigantic risk.
Board's tend to enable thing that fill their coffers with money and protect that over everything else.
Whether he abused his executive powers is a different problem.
That's not accurate either, and it isn't that simple. Both him and the spy consciously made the decisions that led to this ordeal.
Title is not incorrect, at least by 2026 standards where engagement bait is accepted as long as it's not a complete fabrication.
The headline is indeed misleading, but so is your reinterpretation. It's not like the guy got his phone hacked.
It's worse than that - his mistress was a spy. This carries additional concerns since it opens the possibility of blackmail or extortion.
Usually those body parts you share are quite sensitive. That's the point.
Oh no, not again, I just cheated on my wife with a chinese spy, it just "happened to me"
They better check the firmware on his laptops.
What's with this passive language, as if he didn't have agency in cheating on his wife with a spy? Oopsie-daisy, it just happened TO him, like an unexpected rainstorm. Come on.
Yes, Huang was targeted, as obviously he knew he would be. But "ie, an investigation of something that happened to him." Are you for real with that one? Perhaps Huang should try that with his wife: "You see honey, the fact that my penis ended up in the vagina of a Chinese spy was just something that happened to me."
Good grief.
The Board has launched an investigation of its CEO. This is how it’s being branded.
If you’re just coöperating with law enforcement, all assuredly on one team, you don’t launch a Board investigation, you let your CEO and an outside law firm handle it.
What are you basing this on?
> It is completely routine
This is bullshit. In a majority of cases where the Board independently investigates a public-company CEO, the CEO gets removed [1].
[1] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/s...
This is the exact wording. Nowhere do they say they are investigating the CEO. They are investigating an incident, and the CEO is part of it.
They don’t have to. If you know anything about how Boards work, you know what this means.
Boards don’t independently investigate anything with outside counsel as a regular matter of course. They have their CEO do it.
To round this out, CEOs survive independent Board investigations about half the time. But it points to a diminishment of their power and trust.
"Nvidia Board to Probe Spying Case After CEO Admits Infidelity"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-08/nvidia-bo...
If you are one of the most powerful man on earth you are going to be the target of all the secret services of all powerful countries. Period.
It is their job. You take decisions that are worth billions, you influence people that take decisions that are worth billions, and affect their countries.
They are going to study you for years. Your personality type and that of the people around you. Your weaknesses. Your problems and that of your family.
They will employ the most sweet and the most pleasurable and gorgeous honey that there is in the world to create the perfect Honey trap.
Normal people just can not imagine how sweet, specially when it has been customised around your needs and desires.
It is not just a woman wanting to have sex with you. It will be the woman in your dreams.
The punishment for the cover-up often exceeds that for the crime.
We don’t have evidence around whether Huang is compromised with China. We do have compelling evidence that he tried to minimize fall-out, or potentially even sweep under the rug the problem, after finding out the true identity of this woman. If he did it with Trump, that’s corruption in service of a national-security compromise.
It is not just having an affair with some random person and using poor judgement. It is a person what was crafted with you as a target. The whole thing is weaponized.
I have never cheated in a relationship and it is not something I would ever consider. It is easy to say this though knowing I am not going to be the target of an intelligence agency honey pot.
I'm no expert on having affairs, but isn't secrecy key to the whole thing? At least secrecy from the spouse.
If you have no strong desire for secrecy, then is it even an affair at that point? Either the spouse tacitly supports the extramarital fornication, or the relationship is already in tatters.
I believe the actual larger concern here is "in case Jensen didn't want this to become public (whether it was due to the divorce potential or whatever other reason; that's not relevant), what lengths would he be willing to go to keep it under wraps?".
If it gets confirmed that Jensen simply had an affair (without a "shared/did things he wasn't supposed to share/do" component), then it is a nothingburger (for anyone except him and his family).
But until we have that confirmed, the US government is concerned about what critical info he might have shared/done to avoid being blackmailed by an agent acting on behalf of PRC.
What? Nobody involved with Epstein has gone to prison yet. One of them was even re-elected president. If I had to list the terrible things you could do when you're rich and not face consequences, trafficking and raping children would sadly be high up on the list.
Case and point, caught at a coldplay? cheating? Both fired? Lives destroyed?
As for the actor, really? Totally dif industries and people do care. Execs make a company look bad and when actors do too, cheating or not, they also get smacked.
You may not care but most people do and if a tiny spark hits Patrick, his legacy will be destroyed. There are many actors that the public is well aware of how gross they are and are hated for it regardless of ability.
This is just blatantly false.
He wasn't impeached for infidelity, he was impeached for lying under oath and obstruction of justice[0].
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton
Yes, but they aren't investing him because he was "targetted" in the abstract. They're investigating him because the operation was extremely successful.
Dude was literally fucking a spy. As it were.
Or as Charlie Munger put it: There are only three ways a smart person can go broke: Liquor, ladies, and leverage.“
This is not just a lapse of judgement from some random encounter on a business trip.
Surely a whole team would be dedicated to this operation with whatever resources needed since it will be a tiny investment for the possible payoff.
Or was the plan just to publicly humiliate him in hopes he'd get replaced by someone less capable?
“U.S. officials last year concluded that Chinese citizen Alice Huang, then a top executive at Megaspeed International, was sharing information with the Chinese government while working with Nvidia to build data centers in Asia” [1].
It could be as simple as getting the CEO to override controls when signing a deal. It could be any of the perks one gets with physical access to a person and their devices.
And we know there are police reports and investigations in multiple countries. We also know this administration has been, corruptly or negligently, quashing them.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/chinese-executive-close-to-nvidia-c...
If a country successfully compromises a foreign asset in such a major way they'd lean on that as hard as they can, and that'd mean carefully planning various strategies to extract information from the asset.
The purpose is just to cultivate a relationship that can be exploited if the opportunity to do so presents itself.
Suck information out of him with years of military academy training.
Just listen in on phone calls when you happen to be nearby.
The possibilities are endless.
Cute, but don't we already have a term for when lies are used to obtain sexual consent?
Jensen is gonna be ok without you trolls. relax.
Either he was going to admit it or the other side would have leaked it. Jensen ruined it for himself regardless.
The plan from the other side (spies) was likely to leak this, and get Lori Huang to file a divorce to take half of Jensen's NVDA shares.
So it is all up to her now.
HN has a rule about titles to avoid derailed threads like this.
All of which distracts from the misinformation that Huang is not being investigated by his Board.
Compromising Jensen like this, again if she was a spy, would be extremely difficult to pull off. If I were the CCP, I'd much rather use that leverage and access to try to extract information and have a spy close to him to push Nvidia's future decisions, whether he knows he's being manipulated or not at that point would come down to whether they believed they had sufficient leverage to keep him compliant.
If Jensen knew this Singapore company was really a Chinese front then he's complicit in evading US export controls which is jail time.
Sleeping with their executive causes lots of questions to be asked. Did he override company due diligence on export controls to China, etc.
At the very least it gives the US government a reason to look into nvidia's export controls processes which are probably severely lacking.
They do if they want to avoid looking like criminals in front of the Congress!
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/nvidia-ceo-...
https://www.facebook.com/Benzinga/posts/nvidia-ceo-jensen-hu...
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-says-us-export-co...
https://archive.ph/TkBwb (Nvidia chief Jensen Huang condemns US chip curbs on China as ‘a failure’)
But so far the only criminal act and threat to national security that has been proven to have occurred is the leaking of this information.
[1] - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-charged-conspiring-unla...
Going to repeat the words of another commenter here: "Crazy how naive HN is about foreign intelligence. "
Pardon me if I find it difficult to get worked up about an accusation of treason and disloyalty from an openly corrupt and treasonous executive.
Under the settlement:
- Chairmanship: Musk was required to resign and was prohibited from serving as chairman for three years.
- CEO position: He was allowed to remain CEO.
- Financial penalty: Musk personally paid a $20 million penalty, and Tesla paid another $20 million.
- Corporate oversight: Tesla was required to strengthen its board oversight and controls over Musk's public communications.
NVIDIA does not have a board chair but an independent lead director. Not sure how this incident will affect the future structure.
Maybe the title should be changed?
The problem is he was close to a Chinese spy while advocating for increasing exports to China. Then, when public reports emerged about Alice Huang’s true identity, he tried to ignore it. As did the White House. All the way until electoral reality made it clear the cover-up was over.
He runs a graphics card firm. Surely he is allowed to do what he likes.
> “I was unfaithful to my wife,” he said. “My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did.”
aigalaxiome: thanks for making me look like a jerk.
Moreover, he's already been proven to be both unethical enough and stupid enough to cheat on his wife with a foreign agent. That's not the kind of person that the board would want to run a multi-billion dollar company.
if your country provides adequate legal protections, no you cannot be
presumption of innocence is general approach that morally must be applied everywhere
It's a mostly anonymous public forum. The topics covered here aren't anywhere near "wealthy people hobbies" either. It's no porsche forum. It's not even a woodworking forum. Programming is an extremely affordable hobby.
Nobody cares about affairs my brother, unless it was with a child.
If anything having an affair with an of-age consenting female would probably boost his stock in 2026.
Jensen Huang has cultural ties to China and it made it that much easier for him to decide to have an affair with a Chinese woman.
Wasnt this family from Taiwan?
I'm seeing this as a final moral failing of society. If Jensen gets through this, as he will, it means that character doesn't matter.
Jensen isn't dumb, and in his position, nearly everyone he meets wants something from him; whether info, insight or a favor. Many of them dutifully report back to someone, whether an employer, government or just their social media friends, their impressions of which way Nvidia might be leaning, when the next product allocations might be released, etc. So it's unlikely Jensen ever fully trusted her, because it's been well over a decade since he could fully trust anyone not in his immediate family or an old friend. It's hard to appreciate just how much daily life is different for someone like Jensen but I once got a peek. For several years I was a skip level below the CEO of a high-profile F500 valley tech company. I've been part of the core team on the jet with the CEO during an Asia trip packed with keynotes, key customer/govt mtgs, media and analyst interviews. Everyone wants something from the CEO (including every employee on his team). And Jensen is CEO of the most valuable company on earth, so all that's on steroids. He's learned to be guarded to some extent with everyone outside his immediate family and old friends.
And I had a first-hand experience which makes me think Jensen suspected her almost immediately. Over a decade ago, back when I had a C-level title at a well-known F500 valley company. We had operations in China then and before going there the first time, I got a mandatory in-person briefing from actual FBI MiBs all about the incredibly subtle long-games that intelligence agencies run on foreign execs, not just in China but in other countries too. They had concrete case studies of real execs like me getting played (and not just by honeypots). It was very persuasive. On my trips to China I took all the common sense precautions they recommended but, sadly, I never detected Mata Hari making a play for me. :-) Probably not quite a big enough fish to warrant my own heat-seeking hottie.
BUT... a few years later, I did a fair number of high-profile keynote speeches at major business conferences. Unlike pure tech conferences, these often had audiences of a couple thousand people, big 50 foot screens, etc. The company started sending me to these because, unlike our CEO, I was unusually good at public speaking, despite actually being an introvert off-stage. After one such conference for C-level execs of public corps held in a major European capital, I ended up hanging out overnight before meetings elsewhere in Europe the next day. That evening there was an off-site banquet dinner and magic show. I went since I had no plans and dig magic. It was open seating and I grabbed seat at a table for 8 filling with random attendees, a VP from Unilever, a C-something from Airbus, etc. When I finished chatting with the Airbus guy about the A300, I turned to see the open seat next to me now had a rather tall and attractive early 30s blonde. She introduced herself as the marketing director for a St. Petersburg tech company, raved about how much she loved my keynote and proceeded to ask a lot of pretty insightful questions about it (note: this was before the Ukraine war).
Over dinner she continued to inquire about my work, background, etc and was overall quite charming. I didn't mind as I'm partial to blondes anyway and if someone who looks like Margot Robbie's sister has interesting questions about my area of expertise, who am I to complain? As dinner progressed to the show, she grew increasingly friendly, asking a long question just as we adjourned to the hotel buses, so ended up taking the seat next to mine. Back in the hotel lobby she asked if I wanted to grab a drink in the bar but I was already starting to think this level of attention was a bit much. Sure, I was 'stage famous' that day due to being the center of attention at the conference for an hour but... yeah, women as good looking as her aren't exactly common at 2,000 euro business conferences and the ones who are there tend to get a fair amount of unwanted attention, so they've learned how to project a professional demeanor that keeps things focused on business. I understand this dynamic from my wife - who's a tech executive with an MBA (at another valley company), a decade younger than me and also a quite attractive blonde. So, I very politely told my new Russian friend I had an early flight and was going upstairs to call my wife back in the US before my daughter left for school.
When I told my wife this amusing story, including my suspicion that my lovely new friend may have been a Russian honeypot on a random troll for relationships with C-level execs in global tech companies making widely used tech products - either for access, info or blackmail leverage - my wife dutifully disagreed insisting that I'm "totally hot enough to still 'pull'." I replied "Please never stop believing that... but when I first introduced you to my friends they all agreed you were 'way out of my league', so I'm under no illusions." :-)
Sadly, I'll never know the truth about my Soviet Sweetie (the nickname my wife kidded me with for weeks after). I'm sure she wasn't a high-end call girl, since you can't get into that conference without company creds and 2K euro. Bottom line, if I immediately suspected that maybe her interest wasn't purely in slammin' the sheets with my hot self", that thought surely occurred to Jensen because he's certainly had much more extensive counter-intelligence briefings and has had a far bigger target on his back every single day. Even if she wasn't a Chinese government spy, he knew part of her interest in their relationship was power, access and business advantage for her company. But Jensen bleeds green. I can totally imagine him privately telling a friend, "Bro, hot side-pussy's one thing, but business is business." Like many of Jensen's transactions lately, I'm pretty sure he got a lot more than he gave. :-)
Why doesn’t it happen the other way around as much? Why don’t you see intelligence services using male agents to target powerful women in a similar way as much?
The audience who pays for porn is almost exclusively male for example. Male porn stars usually cater to a gay male audience even though straight women outnumber gay men by a huge margin.
If you look at literotica however, it flips and it's more of a female audience.
Patriarchal social structure makes this sort of an attack more common against men than women.
For politicians, it's quite rare they fall for it - men or women. I can't off the top of my head recall any American one in the last few decades.
For CEOs ... My question stands.
One CEO with a chinese spy and another CEO with an obvious Mossad asset.
Would be sad indeed.
AI will be fine.
Does anyone believe the Chinese government really wants to "strictly limit" imports of Nvidia chips? Of course they want the chips. No one is buying the act. We are smart enough to see through China's attempt to portray these purchases as favors to the US. Except Nvidia, apparently--though playing along conveniently serves its business interests.
1. Too many overlook the plain economic explanation for Jensen to cooperate with China.
2. Too many assume this is bad for america.
3. There seems to be a presumption that he crossed a line, other than in his marriage.
Seems like the anti-AI movement is very hungry for a scalp to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin#Personal_life ("...after Brin had an extramarital affair with a Google Glass colleague")
Steve Jobs had a daughter he tried to pretend wasn't his (the namesake of the Apple "Lisa"),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Brennan-Jobs ("Jobs initially denied paternity for several years, which led to a legal case and various media reports...")
Andy Rubin was forced out for forcing blowjobs from many people at Google.
Eric Schmidt has always fucked/funded twenty year olds including Dario's own wife!!
Would it be grounds for Zuckerberg to step down if he had an affair? Of course not.
Proverbs 16:18 "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."
The fact that Trump was briefed a year ago and did not say a word. The fact that the story erupts in the weekend and not during a trade day.
We are missing big part of the story.
> The fact that Trump was briefed a year ago and did not say a word.
Easiest thing in the world to believe.
Why would Trump comment on it to the public?
The very last thing Trump wants people to spend any time thinking about is wealthy and powerful people engaging in sexual impropriety.
I don’t see who wins by orchestrating the release these news. It was not a random leak.
A little surprised the govt found out so late. They are supposed to be on top of high profile spy targets.
Them leaking this isn't surprising, they have to show the public after those midterm results that they're going to start holding the trumpian technocrats accountable.
Said no politician ever.
Polticians say what makes them popular, most Americans are not concerned about AI fueled gains in the markets atm. Politicians are already reversing course this week in droves. Have you paid attention to the last few days? Polticians are absolutely switching up on everything.
AI doesn't provide companies economic value either, other than through speculation on stock prices. Its just cost companies a lot of money and contributes nothing to actual revenue. You'll see a lot of people playing musical chairs around this issue, nobody wants to be the person who rides that sinking ship to the bottom.
The smart money in the markets also seem to recognize this. Theres no point in continuing to die on a hill for AI for the sake of stock market gains, when its clear that its not going to continue to fuel those gains for much longer.. The mean reversion has already begun, these AI stocks are down 50% this month...
Politicans will chase that trend in either direction, its not about if number goes up, you dont want to be the person screaming about how great something is after its clearly started to die/rejected by the public.
The AI gravy train is over.
Are you going to be using more or less AI in five or ten years time?
Tickets for the train are on sale.
That's what I meant with my earlier comment. You wrote, "Does his board investigate him for his many egregious acts.", his demotion resulted from the Board's and the SEC's investigation.
they’re setting in motion a plan to get a divorce judge to order the selling of their shares before the bubble bursts
making an otherwise prohibited transaction to be legal
I don’t think that was totally planned during the affair, but the opportunity arised with the election and created a reason for Jensen to admit it so decisively after everyone knows she was a spy
The attack isn't coming from China. It is coming from the NY Times, FT, and presumably some employees of the CIA who are committing felonies.
Everything to gain and nothing to lose.
Suck Boris’ Johnson.