Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by jyscao on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:09PM (#50462981)

>3) The fact that he slept with a Chinese spy is a huge deal.

I'm 50/50 on whether or not Alice Huang is actually a spy for the Chinese government, or rather just a social climber and opportunist. She certainly didn't hide her perceived closeness to Jensen Huang, and in fact actively flaunted it on her social media.

Furthermore, I think it possible if not likely that Jensen has had more than just 2 extramarital liaisons, and if more were to come out, then IMO that would actually shift the likelihood towards Jensen simply being a lustful old man taking sexual advantage of his power and status, rather than being honeypotted by some Chinese intelligence operation.

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by om2 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:20PM (#50463039)

Why not both?

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by CodingJeebus on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:22PM (#50463048)

Sources connected to US intel have gone on the record to say that they believed her to be a spy, going so far as to have the Secretary of State brief the President directly. They don't bother the President with things like this unless they feel the intelligence is strong.[0]

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/10/us/politics/trump-china-t...

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by raffael_de on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:59PM (#50463233)

maybe she didn't even know she's being used as a spy.

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by jimmydoe on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:23AM (#50463366)

this is hard to prove or dispute. smuggler is benefit china 100%.

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by londons_explore on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:30AM (#50463409)

Spies don't tend to advertise their activities on social media, so "unwitting spy" might be the real explanation.

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by ZenoArrow on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:37AM (#50463791)

> "unwitting spy" might be the real explanation

A spy is someone that deals in obtaining and sharing secret information. They would be a spy if they used their information to obtain secrets on NVIDIA hardware and shared these secrets with others. There's no evidence I've seen that this happened. Someone buying NVIDIA hardware is not a spy.

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by jimmydoe on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:22AM (#50463363)

there are some doubts there https://www.politico.com/news/2026/11/11/jim-himes-alice-hua...

I'll bet 100 dollar this is just about money.

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by Havoc on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:47AM (#50464226)

Unfortunately Senior US leadership said it doesn’t count for much anymore

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Re:Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang by eszed on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:35PM (#50463112)

> lustful old man taking sexual advantage of his power and status

I mean, isn't that the easiest guy to honey-pot?

The best HN comment I read on this subject was along the lines of "NVIDIA sure appeared eager to avoid those export restrictions, so does it matter whether she was a spy or not?" Maybe if he was handing over, like, chip designs or something, but there's not (yet?) been any allegation of that.

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