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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by keithnz on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:48PM (#50461975)
but we don't have any evidence of that? also, seems the wrong person to target to do that right? He'd leave a long evidence trail trying to get people in the company to do that? I'd think if you wanted to do that you'd target someone further down in the operations side of things. So all we have is he had an affair with a possible "spy"? If he didn't know she was a spy, and didn't take any actions that circumvent anything, basically he just had an affair? Given intelligence agencies knew about this for a long time, and didn't tell him, kind of says they didn't have anything of substance and there was no real risk?
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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by trollbridge on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:09PM (#50462162)
We actually don't, other than the U.S. government claiming she is. The timing of this seems quite odd considering the current government just lost an election, and has a history of blaming things on China.
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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by DamnInteresting on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:15PM (#50462223)
> but we don't have any evidence of that?

Only accusations and suspicions at present, possible evidence in the future.

I don't have a deep understanding of the events, but my superficial impression is that China set up a shell company (Megaspeed) in Singapore, and put this woman in charge of it. She then persuaded Huang to engage in intercourse of the physical and commercial varieties. I get the impression he may have convinced some US officials to look the other way, to not dig into the affairs of the "Singaporean" company. That's where he may have strayed from "sucker" into "co-conspirator."

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by roelschroeven on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:45AM (#50465819)
That would be problematic irrespective of him having an affair with her though. The real story then should be the circumvention of the export ban and the coercion of US officials, not the affair itself.
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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by DamnInteresting on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:42AM (#50468105)
The "honey pot" element is just part of the story, it's how they penetrated his defenses, and secured his willingness to help. It's not the whole story, but it's an integral part.
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