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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by qlte on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:14AM (#50479534)
Jensen's conspicuously close relationship and public sightings with Alice Huang was already on the radar of an observant Hindenburg Research-esque short firm in May:

NVIDIA (NVDA): The China Problem

https://culperresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Culper...

It uses careful language to avoid implying/defaming something that couldn't be supported by publicly verifiable info but clearly found their relationship questionable to say the least.

Any investigative journalist worth their salt would have latched into that possibly salacious hint and started digging. If anything it's surprising this had been quasi-public for months given the trillions at stake from either side of the trade.

It certainly didn't need a CIA leak or House of Cards style knife in the back to doom Jensen. Embarrassing in retrospect how poorly they concealed it.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by michaellee8 on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:43AM (#50480273)
I just doesn't get having sex with a Chinese woman laundering chips to China makes him leaking info to China. Those are some serious allegations. I agree that Alice Huang has a relationship with Jansen and Alice is likely secretly getting B300s into China, but the China spy part? And how come sleeping with a spy (assuming she is a spy) unknowingly means he need to be kicked out of the very company he built and grow for 33 years, if some congressman did the same thing with a real spy backed by strong evidences still keep his seat for a few years more. That is just unfair and obviously a political move.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by ufish235 on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:09AM (#50480487)
Sleeping with him means having access to his stuff when he is asleep.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by cowlevel on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:33AM (#50480722)
That's not a crime for him though.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by roosterIllusi0n on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:07AM (#50481079)
Yes it is. If you go to court and claim you were tricked by a spy into earning billions of dollars for yourself by overcharging all US business and consumer customers, you are going to jail.

The affair claims and spies don't actually matter. Jensen had nvidia smuggling chips to china. All that matters now is who knew or should have known. It is pretty crazy that the CFO took over when its impossible for a CFO to not know 20% of revenue is coming from smuggling gpus to china.

I don't think ends until the entire c-suite and board are all in jail. If jensen really has 60 direct reports, then we need to get 60 jail cells ready.

People need to stop pretending that the richest and best paid people in these companies have some kind of deniability, they do not.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by baruz on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:40AM (#50485123)
Isn’t the CFO on record as having strong doubts about the deal making going on, with Huang castigating her publicly for impeding them?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by stef25 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:59AM (#50485446)
> tricked by a spy into earning billions of dollars for yourself by overcharging all US business and consumer customers

Is that the case ?

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by perfect_wave on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:28AM (#50485855)
bring back the guillotine!
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by alsetmusic on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:29AM (#50485881)
> I don't think ends until the entire c-suite and board are all in jail.

Have you seen corporate crimes in the US? No way an entire c suite goes to prison. One person, maybe. Two or three tops.

> People need to stop pretending that the richest and best paid people in these companies have some kind of deniability, they do not.

They have money and status. How did Elon escape that bs when he said he’d take Tesla private with “funding secured”? If you or I committed such blatant market manipulation, we’d have serious consequences. It’s different for the mega wealthy (which is the primary problem).

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by quantummagic on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:38PM (#50487838)
> It’s different for the mega wealthy (which is the primary problem).

It's a feature of reality. That's why all this chatter about taking billionaires down a peg or two is ultimately fruitless. All you're doing is aiding someone else's power play -- who will then have the excess privilege and power that rankles the masses. But there is nothing to be done, it has always been that way, and always will. Those who think communism or any other governmental structure actually solves this problem, is deluded; it just transfers the power somewhere else. Putin is richer than Bill Gates.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by Gasp0de on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:49AM (#50480887)
So? Every henchman of our 100 person software shop has their laptop encrypted, do you think Huang carries NVIDIA trade secrets on a note in his wallet?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by smaudet on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:09AM (#50483000)
Perhaps you are simply not very imaginative, but there are multiple ways to turn sexual access into something more...

Spying being the operative word, it's very easy e.g. to plant listening devices, or drugs, or threaten with blackmail...

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by officeplant on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:59AM (#50485436)
If you put on the leather authentication jacket it logs you into master control
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by robotresearcher on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:09PM (#50488283)
Jensen’s travel and meeting schedule. Who called him, and how was his mood after the call? Which government officials does he trust?

Being around him in an intimate way is gonna leak lots of stuff that’s useful for others.

I dunno if you’ve ever looked at your laptop in a hotel room with a partner around, but it’s pretty leaky.

And you might say that he’s a smart guy, he would be careful, he’s too canny to leak stuff. But then remember that he’s having an affair with a major customer and another with a direct report. He has already thrown caution to the wind.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by t-3 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:22PM (#50486652)
Having sex with each other doesn't mean they actually sleep together, or that he carries around all the trade secrets with him to be snooped on, or that she is given unfettered access to his home, office, etc.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by roosterIllusi0n on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:26AM (#50480646)
The affair or affiars are likely not real. Just a cover for his smuggling activities. People need to come to terms with jensen being a chinese spy.

The entire country of taiwan is at risk due to jensen. He sold out taiwan and the US to china.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by cluckindan on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:55AM (#50480945)
It might not be that. Nvidia donated $25M to Trump’s ballroom and $1M to his inauguration fund.

The administration could be complicit in treason, if substantiated by evidence in a court.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by formerly_proven on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:56PM (#50488817)
Literally anyone could be complicit in treason, if substantiated by evidence in a court.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by qlte on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:26AM (#50480657)
I don't think it's been alleged that has leaking info to China. But making decisions for the benefit of a single customer acting as a Chinese cutout to circumvent US export rules risks legal or reputational damage for Nvidia. And overall means he could be making other decisions not in the interest of Nvidia shareholders under her influence, consciously or unconsciously.

Plus, as others have pointed out, the Nvidia board seems to have been preparing to back him up and ride out the story after his first carefully written apology/statement. But that changed after news of the second affair broke which means he may not have been candid with them and made the breach of trust unsalvageable.

Unfair or fair doesn't really enter into it, it's not his company anymore, he only owns ≈4% of it. Nvidia board/shareholders would have wanted to keep him running things if at all possible given his track record.

Evidently some straw broke the camel's back, but we don't know for certain whatever it's something that's been known publicly so far. It's high profile news because of Nvidia's size and prominence in the AI industry but he's far from the only founder to be pushed out of the company they founded because of a personal scandal.

The political argument doesn't really make sense to me considering Trump bent over backwards to defend him, right up until minutes before he resigned. And the admin seemingly avoided intervening for months after it became known to U.S. intelligence, even adding him back to the China trip after he was originally left off the roster.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by Infiniti20 on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:50AM (#50482182)
I mean, did you hear Trump’s statement on 60 Minutes, where he said he called one of the leaders of the big AI companies, and told him he was going to jail? Given the current situation, who else could this apply to?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by acidphreak2k on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:09AM (#50482999)
Things were pretty hostile with Dario there for a minute
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by boringg on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:04AM (#50482332)
Trump going to give him a pardon if he starts to get tangled up with leaking info to China.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by leakedinfo124 on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:30AM (#50480699)
Leaking 2 days after election results implies that Democrats will aim to imprison Jensen Huang and Donald Trump. Trump may have influenced DOJ to “look the other way”. The fact that NVIDIA donated heavily to Republicans while Anthropic donated heavily to Democrats is interesting. I see this coming up in the next 6-months in Congressional Hearings and Impeachment efforts.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by golemotron on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:40PM (#50486951)
It seems like Congressional hearings are going to be a de facto denial of service attack on tech executives. Can't do much else if you are testifying every day.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by warkdarrior on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:07PM (#50487350)
That is one way to force an industry-wide AI pause.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by danielheath on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:44AM (#50481542)
> how come sleeping with a spy (assuming she is a spy) unknowingly means he need to be kicked out of the very company he built

The board backed him after "sleeping with a spy" came out.

The board did not back him when, days later, "sleeping with a staff member who reports to him" came out.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by ExoticPearTree on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:56AM (#50482237)
And a lessn for future founders: never give up control of your company.

Zuckerberg & Musk were more visionary on this front and they can never be fired from the companies they created.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by fwip on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:31AM (#50483228)
Sure, if you're the kind of guy who sleeps with your subordinates and Chinese spies.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by AbstractH24 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:22AM (#50483916)
> Sure, if you're the kind of guy who sleeps with your subordinates and Chinese spies.

So future founders who plan to take companies public

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by formerly_proven on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:54PM (#50488792)
Jensen lost that kind of control over nvidia within a year of founding it.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by boringg on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:58AM (#50482261)
Probably didn't disclose second one so that created a lack of trust or board knows much more.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by Bluestein on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:49AM (#50482769)
PS. Not to mention that "sleeping with a customer" is also (beyond her being a honey spook or not ...) against NVIDIA's internal code (for whatever that might be worth ...)
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by dfc on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:02AM (#50482919)
She is a "honey pot" or sometimes you will see "honey trap." "Honey spook" is not a thing
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by Bluestein on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:06AM (#50482967)
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by snapcaster on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:59PM (#50488109)
it's going to trouble you when you learn all words are made up
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by burnerRhodov3 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:11AM (#50484701)
Elon gots multiple babies with his reports.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by smolder on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:38AM (#50485095)
Nobody should be confused about whether Elon is a mentally unstable man-baby at this point, with his prolific tweets and public behavior.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by burnerRhodov3 on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:14PM (#50491508)
Well.. then why is jensen getting the boot?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by Betelbuddy on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:09AM (#50482995)
You dont think under 3 years of sleeping around the world in different hotels, she did not get to his unlocked laptop?

All this while he was in shower thinking how great life is, and what a stud he looks on a leather jacket?...She must have had all confidential designs for the next 10 years of NVIDIA roadmap including the confidential financial partnerships and circular deals...

While currently living in Beijing, they dont do statues there, but she might get her own photo in the entrance hall of the Chinese Ministry of State Security.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by Conscat on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:24PM (#50486680)
I actually don't really think he forgot to press Win+L or that he doesn't have it on an idle timer. I'd be really really shocked if his personal security is that weak.