Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by skippyboxedhero on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:56PM (#50419097)

She was being monitored by the CIA, who believed she was a spy.

Also, just to be clear here: the story is that Jensen was also going to Taiwan to meet with this person who was helping Alibaba evade sanctions, when Jensen met with this person Alibaba reps were always there, and in the US Jensen was making media appearances saying that sanctions on China had to be lifted.

Bear in mind that multiple people at Supermicro were charged for allegedly smuggling servers to China, and that the reason Megaspeed is being investigated is for effectively the same thing. Jensen denied he had anything to do with Supermicro, it is going to be much harder to say the same thing here.

I don't think the affair itself is necessarily related to the direction this will shortly take.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by anonymous908213 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:14PM (#50419246)

> She was being monitored by the CIA, who believed she was a spy.

MLK Jr. was being monitored by the FBI and CIA, who believed he was a Communist.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by UberFly on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:26AM (#50421808)

That has nothing to do with the fact that she was being monitored by the CIA, who believed she was a spy. Stop it with the red herring bit.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by NetMageSCW on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:18AM (#50427632)

That appears to be an appeal to authority instead of establishing any facts, and the argument in the authority is not one rather than a red herring. Unless what matters isn’t whether she was actually a spy, only what CIA thought of her.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by seanmcdirmid on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:21PM (#50419763)

There is a huge difference between smugglers and spies though. Profit motive is all you need to be a smuggler, you don’t need espionage or anything else, you definitely don’t need a handler in zhongnanhai.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by m10i on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:51PM (#50419981)

> Profit motive is all you need to be a smuggler, you don’t need espionage or anything else

What you need to be a smuggler is to avoid prison.

When one side is fully aware that you are a smuggler that they can rat on to the other side whenever they want, even a child could blackmail you.

So that's one (fairly realistic imo) pathway from smuggler -> to espionage.

This is a hypothetical anyways.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by newsclues on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:33PM (#50420291)

The core competency of smugglers is getting the goods delivered. Some smugglers are motivated beyond profit or avoiding jail.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by paimapi on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:22PM (#50420645)

Certainly no government would ever encourage its own agents to engage in things like smuggling like that of drugs especially to certain Global South nation states where the capital acquired from those drugs ended up funding pro-American paramilitaries and interests.

Contra-ry to common conspiracy theories, I'm certain any government-led self-investigation into culpability was all very aboveboard and well-substantiated.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by mlmonkey on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:54PM (#50421218)

> Certainly no government would ever encourage its own agents to engage in things like smuggling

North Korea has entered the chat ...

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by defrost on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:59PM (#50421243)

Some may have missed that GP comment was dripping in /s tags and Contra-iness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by mejutoco on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:50AM (#50421958)

They are talking about the USA

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by adrian_b on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:08AM (#50423536)

USA, which is famous for engaging in several smuggling operations, like the Iran-Contra affair.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by paimapi on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:45AM (#50427155)

I thought including 'bananas [...] republic' and 'Contra-ry' would be obvious enough of hints that I was being deeply sarcastic but alas

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by mlmonkey on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:02PM (#50429083)

Sarcasm is a subtle art, my friend, and sometimes the audience misses the point. I did too, and re-read your comment and now see where you were going. <soft golf clap....>

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by chmod775 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:26PM (#50421064)

The Chinese government definitely has better sticks to threaten Chinese nationals with than ratting them out to the US. That's laughably backwards.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by seanmcdirmid on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:04AM (#50421635)

She is a CEO in Singapore, she avoids going to jail by obeying Singaporean law. I don’t know how American law would even apply to her, they definitely apply to Jensen though.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by jon128 on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:07AM (#50425074)

American law, procedures and formalities or not, can potentially apply to anyone. Nothing is beyond our reach.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by NetMageSCW on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:16AM (#50427610)

Iran appears to be.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by crossroadsguy on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:51AM (#50421548)

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by seanmcdirmid on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:03AM (#50421624)

Smugglers can be spies actually, it’s not an uncommon trope. Just not all smugglers are spies.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by jmtulloss on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:24PM (#50421058)

Doesn’t sound like the Alibaba reps were at _every_ meeting

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by purpleidea on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:16AM (#50421351)

They were watching through very secret hotel cameras ;)

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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by UberFly on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:28AM (#50421830)

That's the risk - blackmail. It may very well be the reason Jensen is being so out in the open about this.

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