Nvidia's board launches a probe into whether Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign spy plot, saying it has “no reason to believe” that secrets were compromised

Nvidia Corp.'s board is launching an investigation into whether Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang was targeted …

Bloomberg 2026-11-09 Ian King

Context & Ripple Effects

Nvidia enters the inquiry after Huang's staff apology accepting responsibility for a personal relationship, while reporting has also portrayed the company as unusually family-run for Silicon Valley. The board’s involvement moves the matter from executive conduct to a formal review of possible corporate-security exposure.

The episode lands against Nvidia’s existing China sensitivity: Huang had already responded to reports that Chinese companies were barred from using an Nvidia product in 2025. The board says it has no reason to conclude Nvidia secrets were compromised.

First-order effects

Nvidia’s board takes control of the fact-finding process, assessing whether alleged foreign-intelligence targeting of Huang created any exposure for the company while maintaining that no compromise is known.
Huang faces a board-level review that separates his acknowledged personal conduct from the narrower question of whether Nvidia information or duties were affected.

Second-order effects

The inquiry makes the board’s findings central to whether Nvidia can treat the episode as an executive-conduct matter or must alter its security controls around its chief executive.
Nvidia’s China-facing business context raises the stakes for a documented internal review, following the earlier reported restriction on Chinese use of an Nvidia product. China-related product restrictions had already put Huang’s public role under geopolitical pressure.

Third-order effects

If strategic technology companies face more cases where executive conduct intersects with foreign-intelligence risk, boards will be pressed to treat senior-leader security as a governance responsibility rather than a private matter.
Nvidia’s combination of a founder-centric leadership structure and reported family involvement makes board independence and succession planning more consequential when a CEO becomes the focal point of a security inquiry.

The trend: National-security exposure is expanding the governance burden on boards at strategically important technology companies, especially where a founder-CEO is central to operations and public policy.

Discussion

@dalperovitch Dmitri Alperovitch on x
This is wild to watch even without knowing that Jensen had been having an affair with a Chinese MSS agent as he was saying this
@nvidianewsroom @nvidianewsroom on x
We just issued a press release from our board of directors. Read the release: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/ ...
@beklovernyc Bek Lover on x
You idiots worried about the Muslims. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
Here is the statement published by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, apologizing to both his wife and colleagues at NVIDIA for being unfaithful, and nothing else with any specificity.
@paulmozur Paul Mozur on x
Nvidia opens investigation into Jensen Huang's relationship with Chinese spy. Remarkable turn in the story overnight in Asia. Wild to think it all started with our reporting a year ago on a suspicious chip importer called Megaspeed: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://www.nytimes…
@alecstapp Alec Stapp on x
So, the current position of the NVIDIA board is that there's “no reason to believe that national security was compromised” by Jensen Huang having an affair with a Chinese spy. wtf?
@dfriedman33 Dan Friedman on x
“(Mr. Huang and Ms. Huang are not related.)” https://www.nytimes.com/... A lot of people are sleeping on how funny this story is. [embedded post]
@inthemoneyadam @inthemoneyadam on x
Jensen Affair+heist is going to lead to an interesting start of the week. https://abc7.com/... https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video] [embedded post]
@mattrosoff Matt Rosoff on x
Buncha reporters just had their weekend ruined
@zephyr_z9 @zephyr_z9 on x
HUH!? [embedded post]
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
The NVIDIA board has launched an investigation into reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a ‘foreign intelligence effort.’
@kareemrifai Kareem Rifai on x
Reminder amid this insane NVIDIA espionage scandal that David Sacks was one of the leading voices in the admin pushing to allow NVIDIA to flood China with AI chips (after taking a break from being an anti-Ukraine activist).
@benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x
👀
@billackman Bill Ackman on x
An alert: @JensenHuang is human. And he is an incredible human. Even incredible humans make mistakes. He takes full responsibility as he should. We should all support him and his family. Onward.
@niubi Bill Bishop on x
Culper also shows Alibaba was funding megaspeed. So the alleged mss ceo of megaspeed who had an affair with the Nvidia ceo had a salary funded by a company that is on the us 1260h list and whose chairman owns an nba team. Odds not low the blast radius from this mess will expand
@mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x
It's bad for America but narrowly good for caucus unity that NVIDIA is at the center of a major corruption scandal touching on both Tump and corporate misconduct and also that their lobbying efforts directly relate to affordability, data centers, national security, everything...
@buccocapital @buccocapital on x
Zuck is the last wife guy standing
@kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x
Nvidia's board is launching an independent investigation into reports that CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. The board says it has confidence in his leadership. Jensen Huang is one of the most important figures of our time. It is a tragedy - an…
@kinsellawarren Warren Kinsella on x
It's nice that the company is investigating itself. Why don't US intelligence agencies investigate him, too? Is it because this guy is a BFF of Trump? https://www.nytimes.com/...
@gavinsbaker Gavin Baker on x
Nvidia's board stated today that it has found “no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised
@greg16676935420 Greg on x
Bro had access to the most advanced AI in human history and still couldn't identify a red flag
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
Per Bloomberg, NVIDIA is investigating Jensen Huang's targeting by Chinese intelligence, he'll remain as CEO during. Jensen admits to the affair. “I was unfaithful to my wife,” he said. “My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did.”
@chrisrmcguire Chris McGuire on x
Good for Nvidia's board for doing an investigation. But Jensen's behavior is only half the story. The biggest problem remains unaddressed: the Department of Commerce has enacted policies—at the encouragement of Jensen...that allow China to continue to access the most advanced N…
@firstadopter Tae Kim on x
Statement from NVIDIA: “Today's news will not slow NVIDIA. Jensen is committed to continuing to lead NVIDIA as CEO without interruption.
@gamersnexus @gamersnexus on x
Prepare for the biggest I-told-you-so in history, @nvidia
@whatranjusaid Ranju on x
Zuck is what we thought Jensen would be
@rob_flaherty Rob Flaherty on x
I would simply say that the Oversighter-ers probably should be taking a pretty good look here! https://x.com/...
@joecarlsonshow Joseph Carlson on x
Major props to Zuck for founding a massive company and staying loyal to his wife. That's serious giga-chad energy. He one of the few that has pulled that off so far.
@rachelmetz Rachel Metz on x
Wow
@markgurman Mark Gurman on x
Breaking news from @ianmking: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to extramarital affair and the company board is now investigating him being targeted by a Chinese espionage plot. He remains CEO for now. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@alpaysh @alpaysh on x
Jensen should learn something from Larry and Zuck
@midnight_captl Nick Dorsey on x
I'm beyond disappointed in Jensen I have a personal sentiment about infidelity, that it's a mark on one's character that if you can cheat on your wife you can cheat on anything We're all human and we sin, but this is something that he'll need to go through hell thru first before …
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
nvidia Board to investigate CEO after months of CEO and chief spokesman lying on the record about the CEO's affair with a foreign spy copped to it after months of reporting from @trippmickle @maggieNYT @jonathanvswan @AnaSwanson @julianbarnes @paulmozur https://www.nytimes.com/..…
@alanmcole Alan Cole on x
Unless the allegation is proven false, this is going to be a rapid collapse. It's easy to feel sometimes people of Huang's stature have impunity. Sometimes. But not here. Probably 90% of Congress has at least one strong ideological reason to go after him. 70%, at least two.
@msmelchen Melissa Chen on x
Damn CCP spies are so good they are getting the wife guys too Someone check on Zuck. I've seen how he stares at knockers in the wild
@rustybrick Barry Schwartz on x
This will be a Netflix movie... [embedded post]
@jaykapoor Jay Kapoor on x
They can't get to Zuck, but just wait until China honeypots Alexander Wang with a furry. That man is entirely too into fuzzy butts to be ungetatable.
@robertwiblin Rob Wiblin on x
So Jensen was having an affair with a customer, who also happened to be a Chinese spy, for months. Lied to the board. Lied to journalists. Meanwhile pushing to sell maximum of cutting edge AI chips to China against advice of ~entire natsec community. Can't make this shit up.
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
“Nvidia Corp.'s board is launching an investigation into whether Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign espionage plot after he admitted to employees that he was unfaithful to his wife.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@jakehalloran1 Jake Halloran on x
My hot take is MSS played this disastrously wrong. Jensen doesn't need to be honeypotted to want to sell gpus to China. And now that he got caught there's gonna be no more gpus to China. Or anywhere. Lmao
@zerohedge @zerohedge on x
“I Was Unfaithful To My Wife”: Jensen Huang Admits Affair As Nvidia Board Launches Chinese Spy Probe https://www.zerohedge.com/...
@mgsiegler.com M.G. Siegler on bluesky
Seemed weird how little this was being remarked upon. And the reasons for that are potentially interesting too. But that's seemingly about to change... [embedded post]
@carlquintanilla Carl Quintanilla on bluesky
“.. I was unfaithful to my wife,” he said. “My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did.” — @bloomberg.com $NVDA — www.bloomberg.com/news/article... [image]
@mitchyd Mitch Dyer on bluesky
This would be the funniest way for the pin to pop the bubble nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/stateme...
@thetnholler @thetnholler on bluesky
of course Trump bought millions in NVIDIA stock before he allowed it. — This explains why our whole AI/china policy for has been “do whatever is best for Nvidia's stock price even if it's bad for 🇺🇸 ” — TLDR: Trump sells out America every chance he gets. — www.nytimes.com/2…
@ss2026 Sean on bluesky
Chris Coons will have no problem showing that Trump 2.0 has been weirdly soft on China. — But I am not sure if it is good politics for the Dems to prioritize this issue much. — If they keep it in the “corruption” lane, that's good, but it is of iffy use on foreign policy. — …
@paulthedogman Paul Barrett on bluesky
Dept. of You Can't Make This Shit Up: — A leading corporate tech capitulator to the Bozo Fascist Regime was sleeping with a Chinese spy - oops - and Trump knew about it, and sat on the intel. And these are the people braying about patriotism and “beating” China. — www.nytime…
@donmoyn Don Moynihan on bluesky
The Huang scandal, in brief: — *had an affair with someone suspected of being a Chinese spy — *Trump was warned in May — *Trump insisted on keeping Huang as a trusted AI advisor — *Huang persuaded Trump to let him sell his chips to China after $25M ballroom donation …
@moiradonegan Moira Donegan on bluesky
I don't think that our future should be authored by these people, who appear to be the dumbest and most narcissistic men alive. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/t...
@jessefelder.com Jesse Felder on bluesky
‘The incident has cast doubt over the future of a man who is central to the artificial intelligence boom. The Santa Clara, California-based company has no public succession plan, and there is no obvious heir apparent for Huang.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@harrymccracken.com Harry McCracken on bluesky
In theory, he's the canonical example of a CEO too big to be asked to leave. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ articles/2026-11-08/nvidia-board-to- probe-spying-case-after-ceo-jensen- huang-admits-infidelity
@paulecohen @paulecohen on bluesky
this is going to be the story of half of the Cabinet and senior staff in the WH, NSC and Pentagon isn't it — www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/t...
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Huang got honey potted :/
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Newsmax Newsmax on x
Rubio Warned of Nvidia Chief's China Spy Relationship
@rwpusa Richard W. Painter on x
So, @marcorubio warned about a top Trump business ally who was having an affair with a Chinese spy, but everyone else on the MAGA clown car chose to do nothing about it. Pathetic. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@danprimack Dan Primack on x
A lot of questions that Rubio and the WH are going to need to answer.
@jason @jason on x
Reminder: America is in a war with China and AI is the battlefield We need to win, for the sake of democracy and humanity. We are all in this together: the left, the right and the center. There is no time for infighting. Jensen and NVIDIA's technology are a critical target, and w…
@jakehalloran1 Jake Halloran on x
Okay yeah so the source for all these stories is either Rubio himself or a close deputy working at Rubio's direction lol The IC isn't running around talking about who got unmasked, this is Rubio with knives out for Jensen AND it means the data is likely reliable
@phl43 Philippe Lemoine on x
If you ask me, it's the Chinese who are the suckers here, because Jensen would clearly have been happy to sell them chips even without having sex with a hot woman but in the end he got both the money and the sex 👑
@joy Joy Larkin on x
There's a specific reason why Rubio is being named here. You should recognize it.
@hshaban Hamza Shaban on x
NYT: Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw the drafting of the highly classified memo this spring warning top Trump administration officials that Nvidia's chief executive, Jensen Huang, was in a close relationship with a Chinese spy, multiple people briefed on the matter said.
@chrisrmcguire Chris McGuire on x
So Rubio himself is worried about Jensen's romantic relationship with the Chinese spy and Megaspeed executive, meaning the intel was validated at the highest levels of government. But still, Commerce has done nothing to limit AI chip shipments to Megaspeed or Southeast Asia. Why?
@carlquintanilla Carl Quintanilla on bluesky
Plot thickens. — “.. highlights how concerns about the relationship and the spying were known to senior officials even as Mr. Huang .. remained an influential voice with Mr. Trump over policy ..” — @nytimes.com $NVDA — www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/u... [image]
@dalperovitch Dmitri Alperovitch on x
Not only did Jensen Huang have an affair with an alleged Chinese MSS agent (putting himself in a classic position of being setup for all types of blackmail that could have been hugely detrimental to both Nvidia and, more importantly, the United States) but he had an affair with t…
@atrupar Aaron Rupar on x
Trump on taking Jensen Huang on his upcoming trip to Asia. “I would certainly take him. I haven't heard he's done anything wrong.”
@atrupar Aaron Rupar on x
Trump on Jensen Huang: “I hope everything is fine. He's a fine person. He's done an amazing job for our country.”
@thekriskay Kris Kay on x
The affair rally: $AMZN has added $2 trillion to its market cap since Bezos cheated on his wife in 2019 $MSFT has added $2 trillion to its market cap since Bill Gates cheated in 2021. $NVDA bull case just dropped
@michaels_saa Michael Shoebridge on x
So, the company Jensen Huang totally controls will investigate him, starting by saying they back him completely for the future, & leaving him in charge....https://www.nytimes.com/ ... via @NYTimes
@annmarie Annmarie Hordern on x
Trump on Jensen Huang this evening: “I have not spoken to him about it.” “I just know he's a fine person, but you never know what is going on.” Asked whether he should stay on, Trump said, “I think so. Oh yeah, sure.” “I haven't heard he's done anything wrong.”
@wowbaggert @wowbaggert on bluesky
Well glad that's all sorted 🍆✊
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Trump Backs Nvidia CEO After He Admits Affair With Suspected Spy
@shakeelhashim Shakeel on x
Note that Nvidia's spokesman John Rizzo has put out multiple statements in recent weeks that we now know are false. Unclear, of course, if he believed them to be true at the time.
@hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x
Here's what Nvidia's Jensen Huang sent to staff, admitting to affair:
@x25princess Bluma on x
Most pentesting companies won't let their red teamers use overtly sexual tactics to get information. Which is bullshit but whatever .. I'm convinced clients just don't want to know how insecure they really are. https://www.cnbc.com/...
@jthefrog0 @jthefrog0 on x
Deadass biggest plot twist of 2026. the CEO of one of the biggest AI companies was cheating on his wife with a Chinese spy, that was relying intel to Chinese AI companies. You couldn't write that Script in your wildest dreams.
@shakeelhashim Shakeel on x
Jensen himself directly lied to Bloomberg's @ianmking and @tsgiles, too.
@sreemoytalukdar Sreemoy Talukdar on x
While India is sleeping (some still celebrating Diwali and Bengalis are observing Kali Pujo), one of the biggest stories of our times just dropped. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair, board to launch investigation https://www.axios.com/...
@jaykapoor Jay Kapoor on x
Jensen is such a strong believer in open source that even opened his marriage to outside contributors. Have to respect a man who lives his principles. https://www.axios.com/...
@dylan522p Dylan Patel on x
Nothing will happen to Jensen over the next 6 months, this story will largely die down in media / finance But Democrats will call him into Congress They will investigate the fuck out of GPU sales to Chinese companies And hammer him w questions That's when the shoe /could/ drop
@timobrien Tim O'Brien on x
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having a romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy in a message to his company, and the company's board announced an independent investigation Sunday. https://www.axios.com/...
@madisonmills22 Madison Mills on x
BREAKING: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits affair, board to launch investigation: ""I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did." https://www.axios.com/...
@jakehalloran1 Jake Halloran on x
Oh man Jensen admitted to it (which is unsurprising since it was obviously true but still) Rip lol
@alecstapp Alec Stapp on x
Now is a good time to revisit some old clips of Jensen trying to mislead people on why it's okay for NVIDIA sell AI chips to China. This was the key moment from his interview on @dwarkesh_sp's podcast (time stamp 57:36): 1. Dwarkesh asks why it's okay to sell NVIDIA chips to Chin…
@jbillinson Josh Billinson on x
If someone ever tells you that you look cool in a leather jacket, you are 100% getting honeypotted
@firstadopter Tae Kim on x
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's email to Nvidia employees: To my colleagues at NVIDIA, I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry. Throughout my life, my family has g…
@jake__wujastyk Jake Wujastyk on x
$NVDA Now it gets really interesting. No more rumors. https://www.axios.com/... [image]
@iankar_ Ian Kar on x
Holy shit didn't expect him to admit it
@mattvanswol Matt Van Swol on x
If you're confused about what's happening with Nvidia right now... Basically Jensen Huang, the guy who runs Nvidia, which is the company that makes the chips basically every AI company on earth needs, just sent an email to his entire company admitting he cheated on his wife, and …
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
there's a version of this where ceo does humiliating thing in public, board conducts nominal investigation resulting in some sort of theater-like “oversight” mechanism after a few months and the news cycle moved on idek who a clear successor would be
@newseye @newseye on bluesky
A reminder that we are talking about technology that the future of humanity rests on, which has been infiltrated by a global superpower using the oldest espionage trick in the book. — More on this national security clusterfuck via the NYT below 👇
@drjamesjteeth Jim Teeth on bluesky
There was a time that a CEO running a company with national security impacts would have to resign for having an affair with a foreign spy.
@diosenrab Geoff B on bluesky
The CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world getting honeypotted is incredible stuff, just the kind of drama we needed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ 2026...
@mgsiegler.com M.G. Siegler on bluesky
The whole Jensen-left-behind for the big Trump/China meeting - only to hop on the plane last-minute after everyone pointed out how weird it was - is now about 10,000x more wild. Was he left off that trip due to the Rubio Memo? Did the President override? www.nytimes.com/2026/11…
@lglly @lglly on bluesky
Yup that Dinner w Xi and all the Techbroligarchs in the WhiteHouse where they were taking tours of the New Trump Regime Bunker Ballroom was a OpSEC Counter Intel Nightmare — www.theguardian.com/us-news/ 2026...
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@hellofriend9753 @hellofriend9753 on bluesky
Uniquely commonplace.
@lrozen Laura Rozen on x
Interesting when Rubio wants credit that he warned about this but “the president chose at that point not to take any action.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rochaa Tahar on bluesky
Rubio people are leaking like crazy. — “Marco Rubio oversaw the drafting of the highly classified memo this past spring warning top Trump admin officials that Nvidia's chief executive, Jensen Huang, was in a close relationship with a Chinese spy, multiple people briefed on the …
@jayshooster Jay Shooster on x
Subpoena David Sacks immediately. We need to investigate the entire tech right faction that infiltrated the White House and has been working overtime to facilitate chip exports to China.
@heartwr3nched @heartwr3nched on x
@JayShooster how are you guys meant to beat china in this race to the bottom if you have no security clearance at the labs for chinese nationals and you keep on letting them have your tech for financial interests of a few at the top?????
@jparkjmc @jparkjmc on x
what a sign of the times we're so desperate to not let this house of cards fall [embedded post]
@emptywheel @emptywheel on x
Since we're talking about how NSA discovered that Jensen Huang was being honey trapped in the spring but Trump NOT ONLY let him keep dealing Nvidia chips, but ALSO invited him to the AI summit, here's an exchange from preliminary hearing in Nikki Floris case.
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Hey reddit crazy people all CEOs are awful
@qtrresearch @qtrresearch on x
And this is why short sellers are worth reading closely. 6 months ago:
@lihong062 Lihong on x
It appears that this can be much worse than we currently think
@kenwattana Ken Wattana on x
It's a people business
@bryanrbeal Bryan Beal on x
Nvidia getting 18% of their revenue from Singapore suddenly makes a lot more sense
@dwallacewells David Wallace-Wells on x
David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) on X
@jack_raines Jack Raines on x
Six months ago btw.
@anondawg15 @anondawg15 on x
Dang @OversightDems should talk to these guys who knew about the affair back in May! @RepRobertGarcia
@alexbronzini Alex Bronzini-Vender on x
Tech guys will log on here and declare, unprompted, that cheating on your wife doesn't count as “bad intention”
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I owe my family and all of you an apology
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Statement From NVIDIA Board of Directors
@johncassidy John Cassidy on x
One of the more unusual announcements I've seen posted on a corporate website: Jensen Huang's mea culpa. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/ ...
@joshrogin Josh Rogin on x
Nvidia is going to commission an “independent
@ns123abc Nik on x
Jensen did nothing Wong. [embedded post]
@stevenfiorillo Steven Fiorillo on x
This statement from $NVDA board of directors couldn't come at a worse time. What does everyone think will happen to Jensen? Will this blow over? Obviously this has no impact on Q3 earnings but this is more about sentiment and what the investigation finds.
@protosphinx @protosphinx on x
This will kneecap Nvidia. Bad for AI. Bad for American AI progress. Good for China. They can now catch up. The ops was brilliantly executed. Americans spent a yr doing their best to stonewall/prevent this. Very obv they lost the plot. Won't be surprised if in 5 yrs Chinese chips …
@varien @varien on x
god forbid a taiwanese genius have a little motion
@secretsandlaws @secretsandlaws on x
Trump continuing to cover for Huang after his national security advisor warned that he was sleeping with (and doing business with) a CCP spy is an outrageous betrayal of our national security. Trump prioritized protecting a donor to his ballroom over our country. Impeachable.
@gordongchang Gordon G. Chang on x
Nvidia sold chips that ended up in China despite U.S. export prohibitions. Jensen Huang and Nvidia had to know what was going on. Is the @FBI investigating. If not, why not?
@stanveuger Stan Veuger on x
“Rubio oversaw drafting of a highly classified memo this spring” about Jensen Huang's affair with a Chinese spy (and proceeded to do nothing about it until Dems won the midterms and the press found out)
@briab_briar Brian Nichols on x
Someone very high up in Rubioworld or the IC wants Jensen gone yesterday
@gordongchang Gordon G. Chang on x
It's a good time to confiscate Jensen Huang's passport. #Nvidia #China
@jayshooster Jay Shooster on x
Everyone involved in hiding the fact that Nvidia was compromised while they successfully lobbied to sell advanced chips to China should be impeached. The fact that they are Republicans should not protect them.
@chrisharihar Chris Harihar on x
It's no longer a matter of if Huang will go. He has to at this point, especially now that he admitted to the affair. An affair on its own isn't a big deal. But this one is, because of the honeypot allegation. Remember, Nvidia previously denied the affair to NYT. That false denial…
@jessecharleslee Jesse Lee on x
Is Rubio putting out leaks of classified info to cover his ass and make clear this was all Trump's fault?
@maggienyt Maggie Haberman on x
NEW: Nat Sec Adviser Marco Rubio oversaw drafting of a highly classified memo this spring that the intel community assessed a woman who had established a close relationship w Jensen Huang was working for China's Ministry of State Security https://www.nytimes.com/...
@david_kasten Dave Kasten on x
It now appears that NYT is indicating the reason NVIDIA's CEO was left off of President Trump's China trip initially was because he is compromised by China, in the judgment of the National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
@rwhelanwsj Robbie Whelan on x
Jensen Huang apologized to staff and his loved ones for cheating on his wife and for violating trust. In some notable cases, his family and his employees are one and the same. Read my profile of how its All In The Family at Nvidia, with @anissagardizy8 https://www.wsj.com/...
@anissagardizy8 Anissa Gardizy on x
Jensen Huang Apologized to Nvidia for His Infidelity. His Kids Are On Staff. From and @RWhelanWSJ in @WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/... [image]
@edgecliffe @edgecliffe on x
Many CEOs have had affairs, but there's little precedent in US corporate history for the crisis facing Nvidia. Here's my take on a $4.5 trillion test of founder immunity https://www.semafor.com/...
@semaforben Ben Smith on x
Read @Edgecliffe on Jensen and $NVDA https://www.semafor.com/... [image]
@foxnews @foxnews on x
President Trump responds to the report that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, and he's not rushing to judgment. ⠀ “I think he's an honorable guy,
@niubi Bill Bishop on x
On the Jensen Huang-Alice Huang affair, you have to give the MSS credit for running another successful op. They are good and getting better. I have seen some takes that it is no big deal he had an affair with an alleged PRC spy because he needed no pillow talk convincing to push …
@jimstewartson @jimstewartson on x
Jensen admitted to having an affair with a Chinese spy who convinced him push Trump to loosen export controls on NVIDIA GPUs to China. We gave up whatever national moat we had so Jensen could get laid.
@armanddoma Armand Domalewski on x
Just to be clear: Trump KNEW Jensen Huang was sleeping with a Chinese spy, which is why he was not invited to a China trip, and then he invited him ANYWAY
@jukan05 Jukan on x
Taiwanese semiconductor analyst Andrew Lu's take on the recent scandal involving Jensen Huang: Why the US Seized on the Scandal to Draw Its Sword: Three Strategic Objectives The purpose of this scandal is by no means to expose an affair. It is to force through three critical obje…
@rushdoshi Rush Doshi on x
Seems hard to believe but apparently Jensen Huang may go with Trump to APEC where, notably, he'll meet with Xi. Reporter: Should Jensen Huang stay on as CEO of Nvidia. Trump: Oh yeah sure. Reporter: Is he going to go with you on your trip to Asia next week? Trump: I don't know bu…
@cbotheeggman @cbotheeggman on x
Trump doesn't think it's wrong to endanger national security and sell secrets to the enemy because Trump has done those things
@garymarcus Gary Marcus on x
Trump was briefed on the Jensen Huang situation a year ago - chose to do nothing about it - he was close to Huang - Jensen Huang might have passed state secrets from Trump to Alice Huang - Congress is sure to investigate - Trump probably just made things worse for himself by pret…
@rory_johnston Rory Johnston on x
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@matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x
Trump will not stop humiliating America.
@mikebutcher @mikebutcher on x
FUCK ME. He's actually admitted it! This is going to be a huge story!
@thenextcorner Dennis Goedegebuure on x
I've been reading @Techmeme for 20 years on a daily basis! No story has dominated the news cycle as the Nvidia story. It has everything > Sex > Money > Power > Technology > Chinese spies, > A hero character fallen from grace >> Click for full page screenshot <<
@ryanfedasiuk Ryan Fedasiuk on x
The issue at hand is not whether sensitive information about Nvidia or its products might have been compromised by Chinese intelligence services (though that is obviously a concern). The issue at hand is whether Mr. Huang's confidential personal relationship with his customer mig…
@thegarrettscott Garrett Scott on x
I guess Chinese models really were the biggest threat...
@stevehou Steve Hou on x
I agree. Everyone is rooting for Jensen.
@gavinsbaker Gavin Baker on x
Jensen has said that America should have “the first, the most and the best
@takethelearly @takethelearly on x
Ofcourse first guys to support Jensen are Elon, baker and bill ackman. Scumbags love scumbags
@billackman Bill Ackman on x
I am not suggesting he gets a free pass. If indeed this is more than an affair, then it is an obviously a real problem. I like the guy. He has done a lot of good for the world and I hope the damage here is minimal. That is, I am hoping for a simple affair, not a risk to our natio…
@jerrycap @jerrycap on x
The affair is so obvious that I'm certain the wife knew. Tim Kae was the only one left in the cold. Jensen apologized to his family in that letter but I suspect they don't care (other than Tim).
@zackkorman Zack Korman on x
Just so we're all clear, cheating on your spouse is for losers. A billion dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool? Not cheating on your spouse.
@golub Mykhaïlo Golub on x
The CCP has everything on tape. The Chinese dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
@thejefflutz Jeff Lutz on x
Certainly debatable but there is recent precedence of both extramarital affairs and concerns of spying/intelligence issues Recent precedents show founder-CEOs of high-performing tech companies often remain in role through personal scandals, though national-security overlays make …
@jukan05 Jukan on x
I think there's a real chance Jensen could resign or be forced to step down. That could be disastrous for the AI industry. It's heartbreaking to even think about...
@cernovich @cernovich on x
If Jensen Huang is forced to resign, blackmail becomes more powerful. People shouldn't get into the morals game on this one. He and his wife can work it out. As for everyone else. You are old. (I am, too, no shade.) Nobody hot wants to sleep with you. Unless she's a spy.
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
“NVIDIA is not a car and Alice is not a passenger, I speak to lots of different CEOs, I drink with all of them too, it's perfectly normal. A lot of our business is with tiny shell corporations with identical Chinese counterparties, Vera Rubin is now shipping, for the third time”
@garyblack00 Gary Black on x
I doubt Jensen Huang will be able to remain as $NVDA CEO. This could put short-term pressure on the stock of the second most valuable company in the world. He has no natural successor within the company. While Huang has not committed any crime or tort, his code of conduct and jud…
@garyblack00 Gary Black on x
I hope I am wrong. $NVDA is one of our largest long positions. I know the behavior of boards of publicly traded companies, having served on a few of them. Jensen Huang is one of the greatest CEOs of our time, but Boards are risk-averse institutions comprised of individuals who wo…
@treasureh8nter Ally on x
Make no mistake all, if Jensen Huang gets sacked as CEO, Nvidia, the company will go into free fall. Think of all the connections he has in ROC Taiwan, South Korea, Mainland China and Japan.... All the decades long friendships with all the CEOs of Taiwans entire semiconductor eco…
@realnickmugalli Nicholas Mugalli on x
If Jensen is forced to resign its limit down not only on $NVDA but the whole US economy...
@heyitsyashu Yashu Sharma on x
No chance Jensen drops as CEO. If you think this you are next level delusional. Despite everything Elon went thru he never even dropped as CEO
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
The question is whether Jensen Huang is made to resign. Probably not right? Depends how he reacts to this. He oddly enjoys doing the press, he won't be able to stay away from the microphone and he's going to blow a gasket when asked about Alice.
@amykremer Amy Kremer on x
Resign NOW @JensenHuang. You have sacrificed America's national security and should be as far away from @nvidia as possible. Nvidia should lose all government contracts until you are no longer affiliated with the company.
@hamids Hamid on x
The judgment and ability of a founder/CEO who has built the world's largest most successful company of all time will come into question because he slept with someone? Unless he knowingly slept with a spy AND shared national secret information, there is zero chance the lead singer…
@oguzerkan Oguz Erkan on x
$NVDA forward P/E hit the lowest level over the past 10 years. Starting to look cheap even after accounting for cyclicality and Jensen's scandal.
@marionawfal Mario Nawfal on x
🇺🇸 Nvidia shareholders are having a rough Monday, and the market hasn't even opened yet. The stock is at $176.70 in premarket, down 5% from Friday's close and about 27% below its October peak of around $243. Is the Chinese spy scandal going to be the most expensive affair in corp…
@deitaone @deitaone on x
$NVDA - NVIDIA DOWNGRADED TO HOLD AS $165 BILLION AI FINANCING EXPOSURE RAISES CONCERNS Aletheia Capital has downgraded Nvidia from Buy to Hold and withdrawn its $340 price target, citing growing financial risks from its AI Computing Partner program and potential internal turmoil…
@lizrhoffman Liz Hoffman on x
Nvidia's CEO having said his dealings with the suspected Chinese spy he turned out to be having an affair with were “normal and not unusual” is going to be a 10-figure shareholder lawsuit, depending on what Nvidia stock does tomorrow
@scobleizer Robert Scoble on x
To NVIDIA employees: this will be a rough week. I am not selling my stock because I believe in you. It may cost. But the week will end. The news cycle can run nine days. There is a good chance you will have a new leader. I know the talent bench is deeper than most realize. I have…
@mikebutcher @mikebutcher on x
The Jensen / Chinese Spy affair is shaping up to be bigger than the DeepSeek moment of Jan 2025. As well as affecting the upcoming AI IPOs, it has huge geopolitical ramifications which go well beyond the tech sector.
@mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x
She's a Chinese spy, it's not really a family concern.
@cturnbull1968 Turnbull on x
My guy, it's not like he just had a babe on the side. He was literally banging a Chinese spy that influenced him and subsequently the President to provide highly sensitive chips to our enemy. What the HELL is wrong with you?
@dogeofficialceo @dogeofficialceo on x
I genuinely don't give a shit who CEOs are fucking
@elonmusk Elon Musk on x
@dogeofficialceo 🙏
@grace_panetta Grace Panetta on x
Pointing this out almost feels clichéd/overtired now, but imagine what the reaction would be to a woman CEO who admitted to an extramarital affair with a spy for another country
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
C'mon fellas, who among us hasn't fallen for a woman who wanted us to sell her billions of dollars of GPUs to a tiny no-name shell company that somehow can afford them and has a website that's identical to a Chinese neocloud. It's only that and cheating on his wife or 40 years
@emilychangtv Emily Chang on x
Last month, I followed Jensen Huang across Europe for an upcoming episode of The Circuit. In light of recent events, we're sharing some unreleased footage.
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Nvidia shares slide as it probes alleged Chinese spy scandal
@byron_wan Byron Wan on x
“... don't be surprised if the blast radius from this mess expands.” 💥
@ohlennart Lennart Heim on x
we spent years asking for USG visibility into AI chip shipments. turns out the MSS got there first.
@garrisonlovely Garrison Lovely on x
Truly one of the biggest intelligence wins of all time.
@ceotechnician CEO Technician on x
“There is rarely just one lie, so don't be surprised if the blast radius from this mess expands.”
@jimsciutto Jim Sciutto on x
Smart questions from @niubi who knows China expertly well:
@asialens Demetri on x
Nvidia's Jensen Huang has admitted to having an affair. Comes 2 days after @FT reported that US intelligence officials believed he was having an affair with a Chinese spy https://www.ft.com/... via @ft
@jordanschneider Jordan Schneider on x
the board saying they don't think she did anything else is such bs...she was a spy she presumably was doing spy shit! 'Was she ever alone with his phone or computer, say when he got up to use the bathroom? Are Nvidia IT/device policies for travel to Taiwan and Singapore looser th…
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Are you still bullish about NVDA after Jensen's affair?
r/business r on reddit
Nvidia's Jensen Huang admits to affair after allegations of relationship with Chinese spy
r/NvidiaStock r on reddit
Jensen just admitted to cheating... This is bad.
@byron_wan Byron Wan on x
Alice and Jensen... I'm sure all they talked about was Ai — 愛...
@wassielawyer @wassielawyer on x
The “Jensen got compromised by a CCP spy
@wassielawyer @wassielawyer on x
Don't think Alice Huang is a CCP spy tbh - she's just a Chinese woman running the standard geo-laundering trade out of Singapore. Many such cases of Chinese enterprises routing through Singapore to obfuscate the origin or destination of purchase orders.
@lookner Steve Lookner on x
“Alice Huang disappeared into China for a period in late 2024 as authorities started to surveil her. It couldn't be determined where she is now or whether she still holds a top role at Megaspeed. Earlier attempts to reach her for comment were unsuccessful.
@echetus @echetus on x
There are so few white people on WeChat that Huang could publicly document his affairs there without his wife seeing it
@ctankie1917 @ctankie1917 on x
She's probably not even a spy. She's just a clout chaser who wants to date those that are higher than her on socioeconomic status ladder. Why would a spy show off on WeChat like this
@vivilinsv Vivi on x
Photos said to be shared by Alice Huang (Huang Le) from her own WeChat feed - almost like she was showing off and wanted people to know that she had special relationship with Jensen. Shouldn't a spy be more low-key and cautious than this?
@rebeccaychan Rebecca Chan on x
If she is a spy, she is not a very good one. But you can feed Americans any lie about China and Chinese people and they will swallow it. They have been steeped in bigotry and racism against Chinese people from birth.
@byron_wan Byron Wan on x
Jensen Huang and Alice Huang at CCPPlay...
@dariocpx JustDario on x
She wasn't a spy, just one of Jensen Huang pawns (albeit one he got too close to) serving his goal of selling as many GPUs as possible, even to where shouldn't have done so, until the FOMO was strong and people didn't realise they needed much much less compute to run great AI
@kalshitkalshi Ukdicha Modak on x
jensen huang (nvidia ceo) finding out his fling alice huang has been a chinese intelligence asset this whole time
@van00sa @van00sa on x
The wife knew
@greghunkins Greg Hunkins on x
What is the charge? A succulent Chinese meal?
@_zeets Zito on x
It's funny how successful the honeypot trick still is. Truly the oldest trick in the book.
@wongmjane Jane Manchun Wong on x
HACKED: NVIDIA CEO has been compromised by social engineering CVE-000001 (oldest trick in the book)
@wesamo__ Wesam on x
I just handed in my resignation at Nvidia
@alexbronzini Alex Bronzini-Vender on x
I love how the same VCs who think Jensen Huang is an innocent smol bean who got honeypotted have never once extended Dario Amodei the benefit of the doubt on anything
@mjnblack Julia Black on x
This actually might be the craziest story of the century?
@rhyssullivan Rhys on x
More distillation by Chinese models
@iamgingertrash @iamgingertrash on x
A shame that every hero of this era will slowly go down without having won the game
@hoeflator @hoeflator on x
When a wealthy Chinese man strays from the nature of having a harem, eventually he is led astray. Several centuries ago it was considered noble for a wealthy businessman or land owner to have several concubines, some of which he would not even have close relationships with, but s…
r/StockMarket r on reddit
Read Huang's email to his staff and statement from Nvidia's board of directors
@sliccardo Sam Liccardo on x
In May of this year, an investment research firm published this 40 page report detailing what it called the @nvidia “China Problem,
@gaberivera Gabe Rivera on x
It's unfair to claim everybody speaking up for Jensen here is similarly compromised. A fairer estimate is about *half* are compromised.
@willmanidis Will Manidis on x
for months i've been predicting that it would be strictly rational for the state/IC to collaborate with private actors to “sacrifice” a large business inside the intelligence trade every so often to let some steam off and “pace the frontier” doesn't seem so crazy now
@thomasunise Thomas Unise on x
Jensen Huang after learning about the Chinese honeypot scandal
@emptywheel @emptywheel on bluesky
The other key new detail in the NYT's series of stories (this is told across two stories, first w/Julian Barnes as first byline, then w/Maggie 1st) that Marco Rubio presented a memo abt Huang's compromise b4 Trump demanded he be included on the trip to China in May. — www.nytim…
@rdrembert Richie on x
Now I got to do my due diligence on how horny the CEO of a company is before investing my hard earned money
Newsmax Newsmax on x
Alleged Chinese Spy Touted Access to Nvidia GPUs
@johnreedwrites John Reed on x
The woman at the centre of the Nvidia spying scandal pitched an AI chips deal to China-based investors, touting her ability to secure the US company's coveted GPUs and her commercial relationship with tech giant Alibaba." https://www.ft.com/... @zijing_wu @EleanorOlcott
@macaesbruno Bruno Maçães on x
So the MSS spy turns out to be ... a wild Chinese entrepreneur (of which there are many millions) https://www.ft.com/...
@okane.fyi Sean O'Kane on bluesky
The first new scoop after Nvidia announced the investigation has dropped: [embedded post]
@niubi Bill Bishop on x
Any chance the reason Jensen Huang never got a briefing from the us government on the concerns about Alice Huang is that this is part of a bigger investigation that could have been compromised by such a briefing?
@niubi Bill Bishop on x
The coming Congressional investigations should demand this transparency. Nvidia's money has had a meaningful impact on DC China policy, especially around tech and personnel.
@aaronbennett Aaron Bennett on x
I'm seeing a pattern here
@niubi Bill Bishop on x
We need full transparency on all the institutions and inviduals in DC funded by Nvidia to advocate for looser chip export controls.
@yourpalnyanus @yourpalnyanus on x
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@fpuklowski Finn Puklowski on x
I wonder if the Chinese back door into rented GPU capacity is finally getting shut. In the same week, 1/ US intelligence leaked the Jensen story with a “Chinese spy
@alexesnakamoto Alex on x
Jensen, why would I deceive you?
@neilcybart Neil Cybart on x
If NVIDIA is nothing without Jensen Huang, then by definition it is nothing with Jensen Huang as it lacks a corporate culture capable of powering proper succession. While the geopolitics angle is *the* leading story, the lack of succession at NVIDIA should be the largest sub-stor…
@hasanthehun @hasanthehun on x
okay asian baddy gf aside, what he's saying here makes total sense and it's really funny that everything will now be seen from the lense that he's compromised
@zerohedge @zerohedge on x
Odds Jensen resigns this year rise to 13%; jumped as high as 33% overnight.
@rmac18 Ryan Mac on x
a good argument for why spokespeople should be pushed to put their names on company statements https://x.com/...
@cristinculver Cristin Culver on x
Maybe it's just me but ‘Give em Heller’ is exceptional branding for a crisis comms firm.
@dsquareddigest Dan Davies on bluesky
how do you become “a pr firm known for handling sex scandals”? Do you think they just gradually slipped into it as the wrongun team kept growing its billings better than the other teams, or was there a vision day and a flip chart? — www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
@stephenkb Stephen Bush on bluesky
Crikey, talk about post-nut clarity:
@lmatsakis Louise Matsakis on bluesky
SCOOP: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hired a PR firm known for handling sex scandals a year before admitting to an affair with a suspected Chinese spy. @laurengoode.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
@brbarrett Brian Barrett on bluesky
Around the same time he was first linked to the alleged Chinese spy he would later admit to an affair with, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hired a PR firm that built its reputation helping powerful men navigate sex scandals.
@katie-drummond Katie Drummond on bluesky
NEW: Jensen Huang hired Heller, a crisis comms firm known for working on sex scandals — previous clients include Anthony Weiner and Jeff Toobin — LAST YEAR. — Scoop from @laurengoode.bsky.social
@negligible_cap @negligible_cap on x
Megaspeed is objectively a funny name for a shell company created by CCP to use as a front. In hindsight it sounds so fake
@rwhelanwsj Robbie Whelan on x
Jensen was asked by Bloomberg a month ago if his daughter Madison was in line to be the next CEO of Nvidia. He said he doesn't wish the job on any of his children, but if they want it, they have to earn it. Nvidia the Family Business in our story today: https://www.wsj.com/...
@markkuilmari @markkuilmari on x
Chinese innovation machine running hot https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jack_mrgln Jack Margolin on x
Awesome to see @C4ADS and Sayari support this investigation into the murky past and Ministry of State Security ties of Megaspeed and Alice Huang https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joseph Brusuelas Joseph Brusuelas on linkedin
At this point I think it fair to state we are in the midst of an Artificial Intelligence bubble & the Nvidia affair does not help. …
Brian Sozzi Brian Sozzi on linkedin
The Nvidia story has been led by Jensen Huang since the company's founding in 1993, sketched out on a napkin at a Denny's. …
@matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x
Trump knew Jensen Huang was doing the bidding of China and continued to invite him to set U.S. policy. This dynamic has been obvious for years. Huang's treasonous behavior was an open secret.
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Alleged Chinese spy linked to Nvidia chief pitched AI chip deals to investors
@ljkawa Luke Kawa on x
We spent all this time worrying about AI cybersecurity risks when the real vulnerability all along was human frailty.
@tculpan Tim Culpan on x
This. 100% this “What we often forget about the MSS: they want to influence as much as collect intelligence.”
@tommythornton Thomas Thornton on x
If the US intelligence data shows Nvidia and Jensen contradicted these statements, it's not going to be a happy ending
@gordongchang Gordon G. Chang on x
In all probability, China was trying to influence Jensen Huang as well as collect intelligence from him.
@graham_euan Euan Graham on x
Another point, in this context, so obvious it's sometimes overlooked: MSS targets CEOs, heads of organisations, political leaders - not just their underlings. Elite capture as a short cut to influence.
@plmattis Peter Mattis on x
For the MSS, trying to get close to Jensen Huang would not be about trade secrets. This would be a political case: both from access to political insights in DC and for political influence. The first is bad enough, because of the circles he ran in. The second though is what we oft…
@p_remarks @p_remarks on x
If Jensen had just had sex with underage girls on a pedo island like a normal billionaire we wouldn't be in this black Monday mess
@cnlyonsjones Charles Lyons-Jones on x
This is an essential point. Liberal democracies often assume, erroneously, that because we privilege overt influence and diplomacy that China does too. More often, intelligence collection is a subordinate requirement to influence objectives in China's covert operations.
@rblebaron Richard LeBaron on x
First: There are no indispensable men. Second:The notion that a listed company of this size doesn't have a serious succession plan in place is either ludicrous or deeply problematic. Is Jensen Huang Too Powerful to Be Punished by Nvidia? https://www.nytimes.com/... via @NYTimes
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View: Nvidia's $4.5 trillion test of founder immunity
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Trump Backs Nvidia CEO After He Admits Affair With Suspected Spy
@senwarren Elizabeth Warren on x
NVIDIA's CEO just confirmed a relationship with a suspected Chinese spy. Congress is back today. We have legislation ready to go to stop advanced AI chips from fueling China's military. Let's get this done.
r/technology r on reddit
Jensen Huang Hired a PR Firm Known for Handling Sex Scandals Last Year
@borealissaves Phil Gurski on x
1-yr old classified intelligence from electronic surveillance of Alice Huang at a Singapore-based company that was buying Nvidia's advanced artificial intelligence chips showed she was a Chinese asset. More ignored intel by Trump? https://www.nytimes.com/...
@_nathancalvin Nathan Calvin on x
NVIDIA's board said yesterday they have “no reason to believe national security was compromised
@hshaban Hamza Shaban on x
The NYT reports Nvidia sent a “I know your manager” to agents at the Commerce Department, intervening in an investigation of the company that was led by the Chinese spy. The investigation was then halted and transferred, potentially tainting the case.
@negligible_cap @negligible_cap on x
Starting to think Jensen might not be too big to fire
@anaswanson Ana Swanson on x
New: The Commerce Dept investigation into Megaspeed, the firm led by the Chinese spy who had a relationship with Jensen Huang, was suddenly suspended last year after an interaction between Nvidia and a top Commerce Department official. https://www.nytimes.com/...
r/Gamingcirclejerk r on reddit
What do you mean Jensen sent an email apologizing for cheating on his wife to ALL HIS EMPLOYEES???
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
Everyone in vc is rushing to defend Jensen. Liberal chip export rules mean competitive, near-frontier, inexpensive open models, meaning startups not having to pay the Ant Tax. I doubt it's much more complicated than that.
@isaacstonefish Isaac Stone Fish on x
This is the most important issue no one is talking about with the Nvidia scandal: what is a Chinese spy? The traditional definition of a spy is
@malinvested @malinvested on x
not claiming there was anything nefarious going on in the Groq deal, but if you wanted to construct an investigation that “organically
@ericweinstein Eric Weinstein on x
Apologies in advance. I know this is absoluely wrong, stupid, crazy and insane. But what if...and I am spitballing here...what if we just assumed that all male Billionaires, World Leaders and other Superperformers were expected to be driven PRIMARILY by access to...oh nevermind.
@bernstein Joe Bernstein on x
If you were a PC gamer in the late 90s/early 00s, there is a level of cognitive dissonance around the CEO of Nvidia becoming one of the world's most important men that exceeds whatever you felt when Trump first became president.
@huxijin_gt Hu Xijin on x
By any standard logic—given how vital both Jensen Huang and Nvidia are to the United States—if U.S. intelligence agencies had truly determined that Alice Huang was a “Chinese female spy,
@saraeisen Sara Eisen on x
More female CEOs!!!
@evansryan202 Ryan Evans on x
Either Jensen and NVIDIA escape this unscathed and the US government continues to allow the company to export advanced chips to China, or the company's board is compelled by public pressure and the government to ensure that NVIDIA no longer profits from the erosion of American na…
@van00sa @van00sa on x
“Sorry babe our life savings are gone. The CEO fucked a spy”
@lwoodhouse @lwoodhouse on x
Just to recap: the tech industry is pushing AI acceleration on us on the basis that allowing China to surpass us would be an existential threat to the US, while also pushing to allow more tech transfer to China from a company whose CEO has been sleeping with a Chinese spy.
@alexshultz Alex Shultz on bluesky
Interesting tidbit in this report: Heller, the crisis comms firm working with Huang, was founded by a former press secretary for Chuck Schumer. And Nvidia's current head of public policy comms, John Rizzo, previously worked as...Chuck Schumer's deputy comms director
@timothysnyder Timothy Snyder on bluesky
China and Russia have gained enormously from the transactional emptiness that we pretend is a foreign policy. By the way Nvidia chips are in Russian jet-powered drones that kill Ukrainian civilians. — www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/u...
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Alleged Chinese spy linked to Nvidia chief pitched AI chip deals to investors
Newsmax Solange Reyner on x
Gordon Chang to Newsmax: Nvidia's Huang Should Be Suspended During Spy Probe
@chrisrmcguire Chris McGuire on x
It is beyond inappropriate that leadership at the Department of Commerce apparently discussed an ongoing law enforcement investigation involving Megaspeed and Nvidia with Nvidia's General Counsel. It's clear that Congressional oversight is urgently needed here. To give an idea ho…
@caseynewton Casey Newton on x
Why would anyone trust Nvidia's “independent investigation” into Jensen Huang following news that the company apparently intervened to intimidate Commerce Dept. officials who were conducting their own inquiry? https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jerusalemdemsas @jerusalemdemsas on x
Let me get this straight: 1) NVIDIA CEO is in a relationship with a Chinese spy 2) Said Chinese spy worked for a company under investigation for smuggling banned chips to China 3) NVIDIA's top lawyer is poking around the federal investigation of said Chinese spy's company Hearing…
@garrisonlovely Garrison Lovely on x
For over a year, the USG knew that Nvidia was selling billions in chips to a company that was run by a Chinese spy. Now, we learn that an investigation into that company was ended after Nvidia got involved.
@ryanfedasiuk Ryan Fedasiuk on x
In bombshell new reporting from @nytimes' @AnaSwanson and @DevlinBarrett, it appears Nvidia executive leadership personally reached out to the Commerce Department in an effort to get it to drop its investigation into Megaspeed—a company we now know was run by Mr. Huang's confiden…
@alecstapp Alec Stapp on x
Each new development in this case just looks worse and worse for Jensen.
@rushdoshi Rush Doshi on x
This is crazy. The Commerce Department inquiry into Megaspeed was halted after Nvidia intervened. Context: Jensen Huang was allegedly romantically involved with a Megaspeed executive believed to be a Chinese spy, and Megaspeed is the cutout providing US compute to China.
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NY Times - U.S. Commerce Dept. Inquiry Into Megaspeed Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention
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Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention
@macromate8 @macromate8 on x
jensen is obviously in an open relationship (as most of the elite is) but it's more controversial to admit that than just publicly apologise for cheating
@timo_rf Timo on x
JENSEN! THATS NOT WHAT WE MEANT BY CHINESE MODELS!!!!!!!
@lessin @lessin on x
Negative 5% on 4.5T ... is a $200B affair... which has to be the most expensive liaison in history. Records broken everywhere in this era.
@emptywheel @emptywheel on bluesky
The shareholder lawsuits are gonna be lit, bc Nvidia has been lying to the press abt this. — www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
NVIDIA is a nasty company run by some really nasty and dodgy people, @kakashiii111 and @DarioCpx have been on this for YEARS
@chinaselect @chinaselect on x
ICYMI: Chairman @RepMoolenaar, Chairman @RepBrianMast, and Chairman @RepRickCrawford have sent a letter to NVIDIA CEO @JensenHuang asking him to appear before their three committees this month. The letter expresses concerns over NVIDIA's security protocols against foreign adversa…
@thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x
The whole thing is so strange. Doesn't seem great for China to have one of America's biggest advocates for chip diffusion and open source AI to get discredited.
@chriscoons Senator Chris Coons on x
I'm pushing to investigate Jensen Huang and Nvidia to determine whether our national security was compromised. We need answers about the relationship between AI billionaires and the Trump administration, who's making these decisions, and who's really got their hand on the wheel.
@cgasparino Charles Gasparino on x
This is why IMHO @JensenHuang resigns. This will be a closed-door hearings; watch when the Dems take charge. The scrutiny will be unrelenting because of his ties to Trump. True, the @nvidia board is weak by corporate governance standards but it will have no choice but to act beca…
@hamandcheese Samuel Hammond on x
Jensen has no choice but to resign. This goes beyond having an affair. His credibility is gone. A cloud of suspicion will forever follow him. There may even be criminal liability under ECRA. He must step aside for the sake of his family, his country, and his shareholders.
Jamie Heller Jamie Heller on linkedin
The consequences of this Nvidia crisis will be small and big, near and far. Here, an item about Jensen Huang no longer speaking at an ElevenLabs tech conference on Wednesday. …
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The future of AI hinges on... Jensen Huang's sex life?
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NY Times - U.S. Commerce Dept. Inquiry Into Megaspeed Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention
@nycjim Jim Roberts on x
What part of this scandal is Trump Referring to when he says ... “He dealt with somebody, but you know, so does everybody else.” ?? 👇👇 Nvidia Opens Investigation Into Jensen Huang's Relationship With Suspected Chinese Spy https://www.nytimes.com/... via @NYTimes
@karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky
Nvidia's board “has no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised” by a professional spy — love that baseless, premature confidence!
@ronbrownstein Ronald Brownstein on x
It is difficult to quantify just how many high-voltage investigative targets will be available to Dems in January: “Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention” https://www.nytimes.com/... via @NYTimes
@amrikandesianon @amrikandesianon on x
This case is getting to the point where it appears Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang might have actively abetted in evasion of US AI chip export bans to China. If Democrats were ruthless they would tie Jensen Huang to Trump and make him the face of Trump's Tech Bro https://www.nytimes.com/…
@sreemoytalukdar Sreemoy Talukdar on x
The rot goes way deeper. It seems Trump took a political decision to overlook Jensen Huang's transgressions, possibly to avoid disrupting US AI leadership (since Nvidia is the key) and impacting US stock market. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@niubi Bill Bishop on x
Commerce Dept. Chip Inquiry Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention https://www.nytimes.com/... via @NYTimes blast radius going to keep expanding
@jimmillward James Millward on x
It's amazing that the NYT reporting does not mention that Trump concluded a revenue-sharing deal with Nvidia, giving US a cut on sales of chips to China. This quasi-communist (state-benefiting, if not state-owned) deal is clear conflict of interest. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@joshsternberg.com Josh Sternberg on bluesky
Helluva @laurengoode.bsky.social scoop! “Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang began working with a crisis comms firm known for handling public scandals a year before the CEO admitted to having an extramarital affair with a woman suspected by US intelligence of being a Chinese spy.” — www.w…
Vox Caitlin Dewey on x
Sex, spies, and microchips

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