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Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by zugi on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:45PM (#50417019)
There's no explanation of whether he got sextorted, or what the plan was to get sensitive information from him.

Or was the plan just to publicly humiliate him in hopes he'd get replaced by someone less capable?

Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by rvz on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:51PM (#50417105)
Definitely blackmailed, sextorted for sensitive information about Nvidia.

Either he was going to admit it himself or the other side would have leaked it. Jensen ruined it for himself.

The plan was likely to leak this, and get Lori Huang to file a divorce to take 50% of Jensen's NVDA shares.

So it is all up to her now.

Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by JumpCrisscross on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:55PM (#50417147)
> no explanation

“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.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/chinese-executive-close-to-nvidia-c...

Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by steele on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:13PM (#50417310)
I hope bossman sees your uncritical support!
Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by jackmott42 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:30PM (#50417510)
what is with the set of people who will just glaze powerful people constantly, no matter the circumstance?

Jensen is gonna be ok without you trolls. relax.

Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by halsafar on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:45PM (#50417647)
Equally confused by the people who grovel at their feet and quicky jump to their defense. Jensen is in the class of people who could run you over with their car, not stop, and barely be inconvenienced by the outcome. Why should society defend someone whose money does that job better?
Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by marcusverus on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:35PM (#50420734)
The admiration of people who contribute to society is much more understandable than the ever-present seething about the fact that they are admired.
Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by paxy on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:35PM (#50417556)
That's the point of an investigation. We don't know, but will find out.
Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by ciupicri on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:52PM (#50421204)
Assuming the investigation is good and they (really) make it public.
Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by stephbook on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:40PM (#50417601)
Watch him enter his PIN and extract mails while he's in the shower.

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.

Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by ahahs on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:14PM (#50428439)
the plural of mail is mail not mails
Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by windward on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:20PM (#50418023)
>sextorted

Cute, but don't we already have a term for when lies are used to obtain sexual consent?

Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by _heimdall on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:27PM (#50418804)
If the woman was in fact a CCP spy, and I have no idea if that is actually the case, it would absolutely not have been a plan only for humiliation.

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.

Re:Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang by ytoawwhra92 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:28PM (#50418833)
A lot of this sort of espionage is carried out without a specific end goal.

The purpose is just to cultivate a relationship that can be exploited if the opportunity to do so presents itself.