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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by sprite on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:23PM (#50477796)
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.:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/12/politics/alice-huang-us-intel...

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by dominotw on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:31PM (#50477858)
> likely knowledge of selling to the rival nation despite the current laws

this is what the parent is saying is the problem. How is her not being spy change that?

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by sprite on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:47PM (#50477995)
Is there any evidence export laws were being violated and Jensen knew about it. If so did he act single handedly within Nvidia? I find the timing of all this very suspicious and feel like we are only being told a small part of the story.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by portmanteur on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:26PM (#50478315)
Many of the allegations are as yet uncorroborated and unconfirmed. There are a large number of people who stand to benefit if Jensen is no longer leading NVIDIA (and advocating for open source AI development). Some of those who stand to benefit have a massive IPO next week. Some who stand to benefit are commenting on these HN threads.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ElProlactin on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:38AM (#50478816)
Yes, it's all just one massive conspiracy and Jensen Huang is the victim.

And what's with all the people who think complex investigations get completed in days?

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by dominotw on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:56AM (#50485384)
No idea. Why didnt you ask the parent commenter who said that.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by EForEndeavour on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:43PM (#50477961)
I only just learned that Alice Huang happens to share a family name (at least, its romanized spelling) with Jensen.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by euleriancon on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:10PM (#50478185)
Along with another 35 million people. Huang is one of the most common surnames in Chinese (and Vietnamese and Korean).
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by scarmig on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:21PM (#50478285)
> at least, its romanized spelling

Almost certainly the same last name (黃/黄, huang2). It's also sometimes romanized as Wong (though some Wongs are 王, wang2).

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by georgeburdell on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:50AM (#50479828)
Wong/Ng is more south China
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by thaumasiotes on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:39AM (#50481483)
Chinese in the US who aren't recent immigrants tend to come from south China.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ivewonyoung on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:58PM (#50478541)
You mean like John Smith and Jane Smith? About as common.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by wormius on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:39AM (#50478821)
I've heard that many of the asian names that have "ng" in them derive from the same root: Hong, Hung, Huang, Ang, Ng, Ngo(?) etc... I feel like I'm missing a few. But yeah. You'll see a lot of names like this.

Just found this on wiki -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng_(name) : "Ng (pronounced [ŋ̍]) is the simplified (tone-less) romanization of the Cantonese surnames 吳/吴 (Jyutping: Ng4, read in Mandarin as pinyin: Wú) and 伍 (Ng5, Mandarin Wǔ); and also of the Hokkien surnames 黃/黄 (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂ɡ, Mandarin Huáng) and 阮 (Ńg, Mandarin Ruǎn).

The surname is often pronounced in English as /əŋ/ əng or /ɪŋ/ ing or /ɛŋ/ eng. It is sometimes romanized as Ang, Eng, Ing and Ong in the United States, and as Ung in Australia. In Cambodia, the corresponding surname is Oeng."

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by anakaine on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:57AM (#50478921)
The non standard English chara ters really help articulate to the average person how it should sound. Clear as mud.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by numpad0 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:44AM (#50479297)
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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by konart on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:13AM (#50480023)
>But at least it's not like Russian, which apparently uses more and rarer frequency bands - think DTMF

As a russian I need some explanation here.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by somenameforme on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:27AM (#50480141)
I think he was just, somewhat dramatically, referring to tones in Chinese and ы in Russian. Neither of which being what makes their respective languages particularly difficult.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by numpad0 on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:41AM (#50480255)
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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by alboy on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:12AM (#50482410)
> Allegedly you guys use the widest range of frequencies for vocalization which is advantageous in acquiring foreign languages.

That sounds like your are remembering one of those Tomatis's charts, which are simply bullshit. All natural languages are quite similar in terms of their "frequency bands", what is different is the clustering of their phonemes within those bands, e.g. Russian has lots of consonant sounds but very few vowels when compared to English.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by somenameforme on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:54AM (#50485356)
I assume you know this, but Chinese is a tonal language. 'Mom scolds the horse' translates as ma ma ma ma. With nothing but tones distinguishing the various 'ma's. People who grew up with only tonal or non-tonal languages tend to do poorly with languages on the other side because they're extremely alien.

Like imagine not being able to use inflections to express emotion when speaking. That'd sound as alien to a non-tonal speaker as the concept of using inflections to express emotion to a tonal-speaker. Like think about how 'That's a great idea.' can be phrased in different tones to make it sound enthusiastic, insulting, a question, sarcastic, and so forth. You just can't do that in tonal languages.

There's also the side issue that most non-tonal languages tend to have a relatively close linguistic background. Russian has a massive amount of 'English' cognates (often from shared ancestors predating both), especially if you consider words that are basically cognates but have different stresses or maybe one slightly different vowel sound or whatever. But the number of cognates between tonal and non-tonal languages is far fewer. It makes them much more difficult to learn, at least for me.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by sls on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:39PM (#50489323)
> Like think about how 'That's a great idea.' can be phrased in different tones to make it sound enthusiastic, insulting, a question, sarcastic, and so forth. You just can't do that in tonal languages.

You certainly can. Just because a morpheme has a tone doesn't mean that there aren't other contributors to pitch, such as sentence pitch contour. Do you actually speak or understand any tonal languages? I can assure you that Chinese people definitely use sentence prosody to convey extremely subtle nuances of meaning.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by thaumasiotes on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:43AM (#50481527)
> The non standard English chara ters really help articulate to the average person how it should sound. Clear as mud.

I don't really understand your complaint. If you want to know how something is pronounced, you'll have to learn how to read pronunciation information. If you want nothing but standard English, then it won't be possible to describe the pronunciation of most foreign words. (For example, no English syllable corresponds to Spanish no - the problems start very early if you try to go this route.)

Are you looking for information, or not?

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by pasquinelli on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:55AM (#50482836)
> You mean like John Smith and Jane Smith? About as common.

okay, but if a man named john smith had an affair with a woman named jane smith it would be a funny coincidence the same. do you have a point?

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ElProlactin on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:43PM (#50477963)
> 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.

Just for context:

> In April 2023, Trump hired [Todd] Blanche to defend him for concealed hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels and he led Trump's defense in the 2024 criminal trial. Blanche later defended Trump in cases involving federal classified documents and election obstruction. In November 2024, following his victory in the 2024 presidential election, President-elect Donald Trump announced Blanche as his nominee for deputy attorney general. Blanche was confirmed by the Senate in March 2025.[1]

He defended Trump's White House media ban[2] and most recently threatened to prosecute Democrats planning oversight probes into the administration[3].

FBI Director Kash Patel, for anyone who doesn't already know, is a Trump loyalist who was a director of Trump Media & Technology Group and reportedly made over $500,000 from Trump's political campaign. It is literally insane that he is the director of anything in the government[4].

Bottom line: time will tell who Alice Huang really was, but given the reports that Trump was informed she might have been a spy a year ago and didn't act on it, you can't expect honesty from loyalists he put in law enforcement positions.

Sources:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/27/todd-blanche...

[3] https://www.ms.now/news/todd-blanche-threat-prosecution-demo...

[4] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/the-fbis-controversial-...

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by submain on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:55PM (#50478069)
Maybe his inaction was leverage? Could be that Jensen did something Trump didn’t like, so he pulled the trigger.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ram1500natrluvr on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:11PM (#50478198)
Trump claimed to blackmail an AI executive in his 60 Minutes interview.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by brycesub on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:52PM (#50478500)
EXACTLY! I'm not sure why more people aren't putting this together. Pretty clear the person he was talking about was Jensen and they were holding this over him for the past year to get what they wanted out of him, probably front-running to enrich themselves.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by pigeons on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:23AM (#50479131)
The president has filed reports for then selling nvidia shares.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by paul7986 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:39AM (#50478819)
Indeed he did https://www.threads.com/@carnage4life/post/Dfhghgum6yq/video... and so he was going to put this person (guessing it's Jensen) in jail then had a call with him. So he admits that (Jensen) did something illegal, but we will let it slide....
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by enoint on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:51AM (#50482791)
But he spouted some mush about guardrails and a wife; not chip export and a mistress.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ElProlactin on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:24PM (#50478306)
The problem with this theory is that Trump is one of the people who comes out looking bad here, and now that his party has lost the legislative branch, he's very vulnerable. You can be sure the Democrats are going to investigate what he knew, and when. According to The New York Times reporting, one of the reasons Trump didn't take action was that he didn't want to disrupt Nvidia's chip sales.

Recall that, in exchange for the US lifting export restrictions, Trump negotiated an agreement with Nvidia to receive 25% of the revenue from certain chip sales[1].

Trump prioritizing money over national security is not at all surprising.

There was some speculation that Rubio was the one who leaked this, as he had prepared a memo about Alice Huang that was presented to the president in May.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/trump-nvidia-h200-china-ai-c...

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by gizajob on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:22AM (#50479121)
The $7.5billion in alleged sales to china has removed a couple of trillion in value from the pension and investment funds of Americans this week, all for the infantile hubris and anti-competitive moves toward americas biggest trading partner. It needs to be clear that’s on Trump too, if it wasn’t already. Compromised or not, Jensen was right - sell them the chips and they won’t be forced to get them under the counter or develop their own.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ElProlactin on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:53AM (#50479367)
> The $7.5billion in alleged sales to china has removed a couple of trillion in value from the pension and investment funds of Americans this week, all for the infantile hubris and anti-competitive moves toward americas biggest trading partner.

And how many trillions of dollars of wealth has been "removed" by American companies outsourcing their production to China over the past several decades, transferring their IP to Chinese entities through forced joint-ventures, outright IP theft, etc.?

By some estimates, the outright IP theft alone has caused $15 trillion in cumulative losses. According to the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, whose figures are used by the FBI and the Office of the US Trade Representative, IP theft costs American businesses somewhere between $225 and $600 billion every year, and much of that theft is at the hands of China.

Companies like Facebook and Google aren't allowed in the Chinese market. Do you find that "anti-competitive"?

Nobody is playing fair here and the notion that we can all just trade with each other equanimously is naive. The world isn't that kind and simple.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by hparadiz on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:52AM (#50480342)
You are completely wrong here and I suspect the American voter will agree with me. Selling the greatest inventions of American ingenuity and know how directly to a rival is the type of historical shooting yourself in the foot that will be studied for centuries. America has essentially built the internet, the microprocessor, gave it free to the world, then did the same with all the technologies since and what has an American got to show for it exactly? I'd much rather give every teenager in the entire country a 5090 for free than allow a single one to be sold overseas. In the 90s the feds were throwing money at schools to build computer labs even in poor school districts and now we've kinda just stopped giving our kids the latest and greatest and instead force them to compete with the world for hardware. It is too late now but this has been a generational fumble that will be studied for a long long time. We've essentially given away all our advantage to a country that was a backwater when the Intel microprocessor was invented. Frankly embarrassing that it has come to this.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by gizajob on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:05AM (#50480462)
The 5090 – and every other Nvidia GPU – is manufactured in Taiwan and dependent on equipment made in the Netherlands and Germany. If America could build them in the USA without total dependence on the rest of the world your argument might stand.

Taiwan was a similar backwater when the intel microprocessor was invented, yet they’ve clearly done the hard yards to do what the “American voter” had no appetite for.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by hparadiz on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:07AM (#50480473)
Yes that is the generational fumble I am talking about. None of that should have ever been allowed in the first place. And reality is proving my point. All this tech is going into every miltech drone now. We could have had a monopoly on that. Now American soldiers will be dodging drones powered by Nvidia GPUs.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by gizajob on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:10AM (#50480505)
Not in America they’re not. Maybe try not stomping all over the rest of the world and the drones won’t be a problem.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by NonHyloMorph on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:58AM (#50480987)
You don't understand. The technical lead of ASML and TSMC does not exist because "Americans allowed it". What they can do no one else can do. Aka: you Americams couldn't do it. Maybe it is, that some things don't grow well in a milieu of disregulated cut-throat capitalism.

(I'm thinking more of ASML (dutch) in the Netherlands here, who build the machines at the heart of the fabs (most of the knowhow for building those sits with taiwans tsmc, also for the fabs they build in the states) than of TSMC, since I don't really have to much of a clue of whats the culture in taiwan is like. But I assune theres a more tight-knit social fabric then there is in the states.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by hparadiz on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:28AM (#50481353)
Oh I understand very well and your comment is yet another example of the generational fumble I am talking about. It gives foreigners like you grand ideas about their part in the machine. Memory and chip fabs was considered a low margin business up until recently. We are not sleeping on this. Multiple new fabs are being built right now. We won't be making this mistake again.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by grim_io on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:12AM (#50481858)
There are no lessons learned in capitalism, there is only the next quarter's profit at the expense of everything else.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by thereader12 on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:43AM (#50480816)
Free is an interesting word to mean, "sold for money". Also while the US government funded part of the initial internet, both of your examples are private citizens creating something you wish we later restricted. GPU's are graphics processors too, it was too late any when they became useful a sort of general purpose workload chip.

We actually could give every teen a 5090 for free right now, no blocking trade agreements required.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by hparadiz on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:57AM (#50481692)
When I was a kid my school had a computer lab worth 200k in 1995 dollars. This was something very few kids had outside of the United States. None of them were locked down and we were encouraged to learn how to program them. Now we just throw some locked down $200 Chrome books at them and think that's gonna produce the next generation of tech innovation. In any case I wasn't talking about free as in commie.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by enoint on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:36AM (#50482650)
In 1995 you didn’t have: raspberry anything, flipper zero, qemu, commodity smartphones, mail-order circuit board fab—-and that’s just the stuff under $200.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by thereader12 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:36AM (#50484134)
I think I missed what this annecdote means. Lots of countries had computers in 1995. I also don't understand what you mean by "not free as in commie". Do you mean soft power, we already get that, do you mean something other than resources (what money ultimately is)?
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by hardbass on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:25AM (#50481311)
The American voter can wish for anything, including wishing to get all the cheese from the moon. Wishing quite different from having the ability and infrastructure to actually do it, which nobody is stopping americans from doing already.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by Jamesbeam on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:37AM (#50482076)
> Compromised or not, Jensen was right – sell them the chips and they won’t be forced to get them under the counter or develop their own.

I disagree. China is only acquiring technology to copy the best parts and improve the rest. There are plenty of examples over the past decades.

They would never be a permanent customer of Nvidia, they would destroy Nvidia long term by offering better chips for cheaper, especially as they are going to take Taiwan in the near future.

Feel free to do some research about how china won the solar game, that would be your textbook example of how they are going to win AI.

They do this with cars, they did it with solar, they do it with weapons-grade tech.

It’s an absolute fever dream to think selling them chips would mean they wouldn’t get more under the counter and develop their own improved designs.

We are talking about a nation-state actor with unlimited pockets. They can go down all of these roads at the same time and if I were china and winning AI means winning everything, i would exactly that.

Using Jensen like a greedy prostitute to get the goods right from the source was just the easiest way to get those chips.

The collapse of Jensen is also strengthening China, they already have what they wanted, now he gets put in the trash so the US can no longer profit from his undeniable talents attracting investments into American AI domination.

Seriously, what is 4 or 7b to China?

Better than sending Chinese black ops to disappear a ship full of Nvidia chips and risk complications with another nation-state actor.

Why wouldn’t they take the way of least resistance which was through Jensens greed, ego and illoyalty to his wife?

China has a long-term plan, is extremely focused at accomplishing milestones and they are already ahead in almost every sector compared to the US of the past 20 years, that has become a political dumpster fire.

China is winning.

And the chips that Jensen allowed to move there will be used to accelerate the already working strategy in all of its aspects. He didn’t just fuck most of his company and partners as it seems, he fucked every American in existence.

Enough smart people in the US government have seen that, but they are dealing with a kleptocratic family and friends scheme that is selling their nation’s interests to enrich themselves. It is what it is.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by MiroslavPokorny on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:03PM (#50490586)
He isnt making money to help orphans or disabled kids or mothers of orphans or mothers of disabled orphans.

Jensen like Trump and his family is only helping number 1.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ozim on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:47AM (#50480310)
My idea is that Trump threw Jensen under the bus to tank stock market because democrats won recently.

Trump followers are big on “Trump is good for stock market”. I think market already dipped when democrats won but now it is not a dip anymore, that’s quite a crash we have now.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by KaiserPro on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:29AM (#50481369)
But trump wouldn't be able to keep it a secret.

he's say something about it "hes a disgusting man, sold out nvidia and for what?" or something even less coherent

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by onetimeusename on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:10PM (#50478192)
>Trump was informed she might have been a spy a year ago and didn't act on it

You don't know that at all. It's not standard procedure to immediately publicly out possible spies. Lots of reasons why not to do that including not wanting to let adversaries know you know who their spies are or to use them to feed bad intel or for watching what the spy does.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ElProlactin on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:16PM (#50478237)
This is what has been reported, and Trump didn't dispute it when asked by the press.

As for "standard procedure" and counter-intelligence, who knows? I'm not a member of the intelligence community. Are you?

The point of my comment is that, to many laypeople, Trump's inaction doesn't look good and that creates an optics issue for him. "Why would he let a Chinese spy who was potentially trying to use Huang to influence the president's US-China policy stay close to him?"

Given how the administration operates, you can expect Trump's lackeys to spin the truth (if not lie) to make his actions look more favorable to the public.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by onetimeusename on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:56PM (#50478534)
>Why would he let a Chinese spy who was potentially trying to use Huang to influence the president's US-China policy stay close to him

There's no evidence she influenced Jensen who influenced Trump who eased restrictions despite knowing she was a spy. Jensen has consistently been trying to relax restrictions for years, before they met, and others have made the same case Jensen has, that it's actually harmful to the US to restrict access and that a managed access strategy is better than a complete ban (and Trump said he would charge for it). She probably did what's called intelligence gathering.

Also, it's funny watching HN suddenly become hawkish on GPUs being shipped to China. Were you complaining about it back then or just now?

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ElProlactin on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:24AM (#50478716)
> There's no evidence she influenced Jensen who influenced Trump who eased restrictions despite knowing she was a spy.

Are you a member of the intelligence community? I'm not. This story is literally a week old. It's naive to think that all of the intelligence information the alphabet soup agencies have about Alice Huang and her relationship with Jensen, and how it might have compromised trade secrets, trade policy, etc. is going to be released to the public ASAP.

Most likely: we're never going to get the full story.

> Also, it's funny watching HN suddenly become hawkish on GPUs being shipped to China. Were you complaining about it back then or just now?

I used to live in Taiwan, so I know exactly what China is and the threat it poses.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ImPostingOnHN on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:13AM (#50479529)
> There's no evidence she influenced Jensen who influenced Trump

There actually is, for both: 1) the chip sales to china, and 2) a $25,000,000 donation Jensen made to donald for his ballroom slush fund, which he tried to keep secret.

There is also evidence that donald kept this quiet in exchange for obedience and obeisance: he admitted it in an interview recently.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by EdwardDiego on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:36AM (#50479236)
Not to mention the Commerce Department continually dragging their heels on Megaspeed being added to the export blacklist despite being requested to by US intelligence agencies.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by Ungrim on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:03PM (#50486377)
Singapore also forbid her from returning to the country and only dropped the investigation because US law enforcement did not respond to their requests for assistance. This was reported by Reuters.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by nozzlegear on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:47PM (#50477997)
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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by nozzlegear on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:35AM (#50485962)
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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by chasil on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:37PM (#50478405)
HP never really recovered from the loss of Mark Hurd, so I can see the logic of this sentiment.

https://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-organisations/mark-h...

However, if Jensen Huang was made aware of the potential for espionage, then his position is far more precarious.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/the-race-is-on-to-sue-nvid...

"A third category, one that would change everything, would arise only if the board’s investigation finds Huang knew about the intelligence connection. That would be “a whole other ball game,” as Bartlett said."

I have signed on to the Rosen class action.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by zmgsabst on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:31AM (#50479195)
People are questioning if the affairs being pressured now are a form of parallel construction:

US IC knows he knew, but cannot disclose the means at trial, so they’re doing this to remove him from NVidia.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by chasil on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:00AM (#50479417)
I will admit, that does sound plausible.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by vasco on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:33AM (#50479667)
This is the likeliest explanation. The reason might be another but this is clearly him being put aside without having to do it right.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by estearum on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:24AM (#50481284)
Drats if only the weasely SEE EYE AYE didn’t force him to sleep with a (potential) foreign agent and then also sleep with a bunch of subordinates :(

Such cunning, making such a poor helpless man succumb to such obviously completely 100% fireable offenses.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by thaumasiotes on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:32AM (#50481405)
> Drats if only the weasely SEE EYE AYE didn’t force him to sleep with a (potential) foreign agent

You know that AYE rhymes with EYE, right?

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by estearum on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:39AM (#50481481)
Yes but I couldn’t figure out a better way to write it. Any suggestions? “Eh” doesn’t sound right either.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by sobiolite on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:15AM (#50481887)
Ay
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by fuzztester on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:37AM (#50482074)
AI
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by jfengel on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:44AM (#50482715)
EIGH?
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by estearum on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:47AM (#50482752)
Okay winner so far but boy would that be confusing for an English second-language speaker!
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by muestramuertos on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:51AM (#50483484)
AYYY
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by zakki on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:06AM (#50482970)
Ah, you meant CIA.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by K0balt on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:24AM (#50481961)
It seems fairly clear to me that this is the case. His misstep was political in nature, I think , or maybe the Chinese chip wagon train. But the affairs are neither relevant nor noteworthy except as an excuse for the resignation. NVIDIA is a strategic national asset at this point.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by bbor on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:37AM (#50482084)
You’re disagreeing with the person you’re responding to, btw.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by K0balt on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:56AM (#50482849)
Huh, it seems I’m agreeing with them to me? Am I losing it, at long last? Op says the affairs are parallel construction and I’m saying that I doubt that the affairs are the base motivation?
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by cwnyth on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:19AM (#50483114)
Yeah, I don't see the disagreement either.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by actionfromafar on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:52AM (#50483501)
This is a high dimensional space :)

A: legality

B: morality

C: what the political power wants

D: what shareholders wants

E: what the "CIA" wants, which is influenced by A, B and C, and D but its own thing

...

Z: business consequences, the sum of all of the above

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by b112 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:57AM (#50484484)
An alternate could be, that the entire goal of all of this was because the Chinese government wanted to remove a highly effective CEO, from producing what is now a worldwide grip on top level AI compute power.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by K0balt on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:54AM (#50486231)
That’s a possibility as well.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by wolvoleo on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:19AM (#50480567)
Still, just sleeping with someone doesn't mean you share secrets with them.

I've slept with people I wouldn't even allow to look at my phone lol

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by throw0101c on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:21AM (#50483131)
> However, if Jensen Huang was made aware of the potential for espionage, then his position is far more precarious.

What he made aware of circumventing export controls?

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by dluan on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:19AM (#50478670)
She is not a "spy", but she represented and was connected to the companies in mainland China who were trying to build data centers in Singapore, Malaysia, etc which would then be used and leased by Alibaba and others. The scale of the money involved ($ billions) means that there was zero way anyone in the CPC didn't have knowledge, even if it was low level bureaucrats. This may not end up as "smuggling" in legal terms in the eventual court battle.

Now I know for anyone outside of China, that equates to "spy", but she was not MSS especially when they are currently holding 600k cards in HK and actively trying to prevent cards from entering.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by Glyptodon on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:42AM (#50478838)
I think there's got to be more variety of differentiation between being an agent of national interest as a national of a nation and being a spy. It takes more than acting in America's interest for an American business person to be an "agent" or a "spy."

This isn't to discount the issues with NVIDIA and whether they knowingly participated in circumventing chip bans. Or conflict of interest issues. But running a business that benefits China as a Chinese national and making some reports to the nation just doesn't seem like "spy" to me any more than being part of the British East India company made a Brit a spy.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by rdtsc on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:20AM (#50480571)
Yeah it’s one of those things anyone can argue either way. To some, unless they find a Chinese spy school diploma with her name she won’t be “spy”. That’s just not how it works. There are various levels of involvement and recruitment. All the way down to being an unwitting cooperator (for all she knows, she is helping a business associate or friend in Singapore source GPUs) or something like that.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by mosura on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:06AM (#50483682)
While in truth the problem is she is ethnically chinese and thus obviously guilty.

That is the result of this: every person of Chinese ethnicity with enough clout is now known to be assumed to be a spy in the eyes of the NYT.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by Betelbuddy on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:12AM (#50483766)
Given the current organ extraction system from criminals in China, and the 100% control by the party, any Chinese citizen who happens to be in a position of interest to the CCP, either in China or outside, and gets a call to help the Motherland will know the options...

Have you talked to Jack Ma lately ?

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by mosura on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:16AM (#50483823)
Does this thinking apply to people of all ethnicities or just the Chinese?

This whole episode is simply the US equivalent of Jack Ma with added puritanism.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ffsm8 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:42PM (#50486972)
You're completely brainrotten if you think that.

Jack Ma vanished for merely speaking out against the Chinese party.

Jensen enabled China to build out the AI infrastructure it needed to get their models just shy of the SOTA models.

I'm not even pro USA (as I'm not American and we've been fucked over by then enough times), but equating literally enabling a foreign country in subverting your own is a large difference to Jack Ma whoes only crime was saying the Chinese party is destroying Chinas future with it's corruption and needs to be removed... (And he didn't even say that much, his statement was was tamer I just cba looking it up and am speaking from memory)

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by franktankbank on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:28AM (#50480669)
Seems the label is unimportant.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ajross on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:53AM (#50478898)
Sourcing in that article is extremely thin. Basically it's just quoting Blanche and Trump (hardly neutral observers, the administration is implicated here!) and then citing the existence (but not communication to the journalist) of "officials" who hold the opinion. The CIA thing is hilarious because it says that they aren't convince (I'm not making this up) "according to a source".

This is a beat sweetening story. You write up what your sources want you to write in exchange for them giving you juicier stuff later. It says almost nothing about the certainty within the intelligence agencies.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by viking_fullz on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:04AM (#50478976)
trump admin, whose officials quashed and suppressed investigations into this criminal enterprise with the alleged spy as far back as a year ago, is casting doubt on these claims? No shit huh?
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by mirekrusin on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:05AM (#50478990)
Is it against the law to shag hot spy james bond style?
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by jorisw on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:58AM (#50480985)
No. It’s about prohibited business dealings (chip exports) that probably wouldn’t have happened without the affair with Alice Huang.

Jensen’s dismissal as CEO could still be because of the affairs, especially the one with an Nvidia VP.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by well_ackshually on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:24AM (#50483159)
The second biggest economy in the world is trying to buy your chips, and you think it's fucking a woman that made it happen ?
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by FooBarWidget on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:07AM (#50479014)
There is no disagreement. Nobody has any evidence. Zero. Even Singapore and Taiwan have no evidence. The media admitted since day 1 that they had no evidence other than "intelligence officials said so", but chose to report it uncritically anyway. And the public chose to interpret allegations as facts (or, as your parent said, "likely" even though that's based on nothing but the fact that she's Chinese) anyway.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by GolfPopper on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:33AM (#50479211)
Officials in the government whose executive Huang gave $25 million to?

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-jensen-huang-spy-claim-nvidia...

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by MiroslavPokorny on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:21AM (#50479582)
Why would any of Trumps family disagree with Trump's observation that Jensen is an honourable American ?
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by KaiserPro on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:27AM (#50481342)
The spy bit is a nice sideshow, they were a customer.

If I was caught shagging a customer, it would be curtains for me.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by Esophagus4 on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:17AM (#50483097)
Kaiser, if I need you to win the account, you go win the account, you hear me?
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by KaiserPro on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:34AM (#50485033)
Fine.

unzips leather jacket

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by bbor on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:36AM (#50482069)
I will say: if she was a spy, she was terrible at it. Spies don’t usually post their escapades to their public social media.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by mcphage on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:06AM (#50483681)
> I will say: if she was a spy, she was terrible at it.

We have an entire administration who are terrible at their jobs—who commit crimes and then go onto a news program and tell everyone that they committed a crime. I don't think that's evidence against her being a spy. Not these days.

Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by AceyMan on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:16AM (#50483095)
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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by aiisjustanif on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:32PM (#50486779)
Seems fair, since Rupert Murdoch was given a pass for similar transgressions
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by _DeadFred_ on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:25PM (#50488472)
Classic internet discussion 'well actually' classification vagaries/obfuscations don't actually apply in the real world.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by ikidd on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:00PM (#50489583)
I mean, the intelligence community of this adminstration has zero credibility anymore. There's no reason to take anything coming out of official channels seriously.