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

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

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

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 34 minutes ago

What bugs me the most about this whole scandal is that out of all the negatives of AI, having a competitor buy your products in a globalize market seems so benign.

There are children dead because of bad decisions made by US military due to AI yet people are clutching their pearls at a consensual relationship.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still bad cause of security and him being married, but it bugs me that children’s lives have less value.

[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

US intel don't know shih and they're just racist's trying to stir the pot and continue Trumps narrative on "China is bad" rhetoric.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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

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

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 25 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

LOL yes of course... she is a spy with a vested interest in circumventing US law to buy chips from NVIDIA... but maybe she was off the clock when she happened to fall in love with the head of the biggest chip designer

I guess love just finds a way...

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine if it all started as a grift to smuggle chips, but over time they built true love and now their relationship is blowing up publicly. That could make a great rom-com-tragedy biopic a few years from now.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

careful, Disney may be trolling for their new movie...

[–] DekSomBoon@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

The theory that all of the affairs were made up seems more and more plausible the more you look into this whole mess haha

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

My guess is that she isn't, probably, but it sure is a convenient excuse to knock Nvidia off the top spot.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago

Honey pots are often not gathering intelligence themselves, but generating kompromat so that the target can be pressured by a third party.

This also works if the affair is organic, but enemies discover it's existence first. For example, Clinton exposed himself to kompromat even though Lewinsky was in no way a foreign agent.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

I read intel as Intel and was confused.