101 points mgh2 2 hours ago 38 comments

Timpanzee 43 minutes ago | parent

Sounds like a good Chinese spy. Jensen Huang is the exact kind of relationship I would want my spies to foster if I was China.

wadayano 40 minutes ago | parent

You’d be a pretty shit spy agency if you didn’t have agents at least in these people’s orbits.

blondie9x 34 minutes ago | parent

We know what he sought in her.

lurk2 16 minutes ago | parent

It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals. The marginal boost to economic productivity isn’t worth the threat these people pose to national security; the Chinese understand this, so why don’t Americans?

throwaway384034 5 minutes ago | parent

China is high IQ. It is one of the top countries you will want to attempt brain drain from.

slowin 11 minutes ago | parent

Kind of like Jeffery Epstein and his relationship with Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman...

tehjoker 34 minutes ago | parent

"The woman, Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, is a Chinese citizen who has served as a top executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, an Nvidia customer and cloud partner that provides AI computing power to Chinese companies including Alibaba, the New York Times reported Thursday."

Do you think that when Jensen talks to Sam Altman or Amodei they don't chat on the phone with Donald Trump?? This is just a smear.

MetalBreaksAndB 26 minutes ago | parent

"Nvidia Corporation[a] (/ɛnˈvɪdiə/ en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company"

ActionHank 21 minutes ago | parent

That's the thing about capitalism, businesses can sell to customers.

ActionHank 20 minutes ago | parent

No idea why you're getting down voted here. People are obviously willfully ignorant that a business would not be interested in doing business and making money, they really don't care who the customer is or why they're spending.

2OEH8eoCRo0 26 minutes ago | parent

> US authorities have been investigating Megaspeed over suspicions that it helped Chinese firms circumvent US export restrictions and smuggle advanced Nvidia chips into China, the Times reported.

ActionHank 14 minutes ago | parent

lol, honestly this is so stupid, did they really think that the GPUs wouldn't have wound up there?

2OEH8eoCRo0 6 minutes ago | parent

If might be stupid but it was the law. Did Jensen know that superspeed were sending chips to china and still sold to them?

What did Jensen know and when did he know it?

He should be forced to testify in front of congress.

pr337h4m 25 minutes ago | parent

This is an apparent nothingburger with zero hint of anything outside plain old business schmoozing on Jensen's part. 'Close relationship' is a really good weasel word (weasel phrase?).

zkmon 25 minutes ago | parent

Sounds like a Bond movie plot.

slowin 17 minutes ago | parent

It sounds like anti-Chinese propaganda. This is the NY Post we're talking about.

boringg 9 minutes ago | parent

Its headline of the NYT - not sure we have ny post version of the article here.

slowin 6 minutes ago | parent

This NYT? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller

The headline is from the Post article, not the NYT version is much better.

lurk2 21 minutes ago | parent

This is why courtiers were provided with state-mandated GFs for all of human history up until about 40 years ago.

nostrademons 19 minutes ago | parent

This article has the flavor of a strategic political leak by the Trump administration, likely a prelude to blackmail to get NVidia to do something friendly to the administration. You don't have multiple "people briefed on the surveillance, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the findings are drawn from classified intelligence" unless someone high-up in the CIA is greenlighting the leak; that's a crime punishable by decades in prison. And then the whole article has the flavor of "We appreciate your continued support, Jensen, we know you have been a strong ally in public, but if you think of defying us we will hit you with espionage charges and throw you in jail. Look, the groundwork is already in the NYTimes."

Makes me wonder what the next headline is going to be, probably some deal between NVidia and the federal government over export restrictions or something.

peri-cl 14 minutes ago | parent

> "Makes me wonder what the next headline is going to be, probably some deal between NVidia and the federal government over export restrictions or something."

Chinese models disappearing from HuggingFace (recently acquired by Nvidia).

GLM-flash and Qwen-next disappeared from ArtificalAnalysis (the top benchmark site) a few days ago; I was wondering if that was a prelude to something greater. Testing the waters.

ActionHank 12 minutes ago | parent

The models are still on AA, not sure what you mean

peri-cl 9 minutes ago | parent

They're not? They are no longer benchmarked, and not available on any of the charts (not even manually).

Their benchmarks have been replaced with "N/A" for several days now,

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-flash-next

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash/

UncleOxidant 13 minutes ago | parent

What about this part: "President Trump was briefed and took no action." ?

ActionHank 12 minutes ago | parent

Needs to check in with daddy putin first.

nostrademons 8 minutes ago | parent

It's implicitly "President Trump was briefed and took no action yet."

You don't write about it in the NYTimes unless there's a purpose. That purpose is leverage. If you're negotiating, you don't blow all your leverage upfront; you subtly let the other party know you have it, and then wait to see if they play ball. If they don't, that's when you apply pressure.

markus_zhang 19 minutes ago | parent

I doubt Jensen is completely out of the scheme TBH.

jurschreuder 16 minutes ago | parent

A spy?! Almost half the people working in usa big tech are asian. If it tips over 50% you could call the white people the spies in asian companies located in usa

dgellow 13 minutes ago | parent

The article has nothing to do with race.

talon8635 8 minutes ago | parent

Lol what on earth?

autoexec 15 minutes ago | parent

If she is a spy I doubt china gave her much choice. I wonder if they paid her or just threatened her loved ones. Either way, she had to hang out with Jensen Huang, poor woman.

Poudlardo 13 minutes ago | parent

poor jensen huang he was obviously tricked by this malicious spy and has nothing to do with any of this (/s)

lakeviewterrace 10 minutes ago | parent

He should call Eric Swalwell for advice.

Varelion 8 minutes ago | parent

I would be very interesting in seeing who this spy is, and what her relationship with him was.

aurareturn 6 minutes ago | parent

Looks like McCarthyism is back on the menu. Big media is out in force to push a narrative.

paxy 5 minutes ago | parent

> Roughly a year ago, Mr. Trump was briefed about the intelligence findings, which have not been previously reported, and chose not to do anything with the information. Mr. Trump has been wary of disrupting Nvidia’s chip sales, which are helping to drive the economy and the stock market, and of further complicating the trading relationship with China.

Lmao

greenchair 4 minutes ago | parent

Perhaps she is the one who makes him wear that mid life crisis jacket?