115 points mgh2 2 hours ago 50 comments

Timpanzee 54 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 51 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 45 minutes ago | parent

We know what he sought in her.

lurk2 27 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 16 minutes ago | parent

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

Avicebron 10 minutes ago | parent

This is nonsense, China has a massive population, like india. So they have some benefits when it comes to distributions.

AlecSchueler 11 minutes ago | parent

Until recently the US was on the side of international cooperation. It's not only a pity that this has changed but it's sad to see that people are completely forgetting this, as well as seemingly forgetting the incredibly bloody history that we had to endure before embracing the idea of respectful cooperation.

Now China is the grown-up in the room while the US is running around like a maniac in Venezuela, Iran, and wherever else

slowin 22 minutes ago | parent

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

peri-cl 10 minutes ago | parent

Or Cami Clark and her relationships with Jeffrey Epstein, Eric Schmidt, Dario Amodei...

tehjoker 45 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 37 minutes ago | parent

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

ActionHank 32 minutes ago | parent

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

ActionHank 31 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 36 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 25 minutes ago | parent

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

2OEH8eoCRo0 17 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.

ActionHank 5 minutes ago | parent

If they start pursuing the law the entire administration is gonna have a hard time.

pr337h4m 36 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?).

Gabriel_Martin 8 minutes ago | parent

weaselwhistle

zkmon 36 minutes ago | parent

Sounds like a Bond movie plot.

slowin 28 minutes ago | parent

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

boringg 19 minutes ago | parent

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

slowin 17 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 32 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 30 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 25 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 ArtificialAnalysis (the top benchmark site) a few days ago; I was wondering if that was a prelude to something greater. Testing the waters.

ActionHank 23 minutes ago | parent

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

peri-cl 20 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/

ActionHank 6 minutes ago | parent

Oh I see, sorry, I just went as far as checking they were still on the site, didn't check the details.

That is really weird given how widely used they are.

UncleOxidant 24 minutes ago | parent

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

ActionHank 22 minutes ago | parent

Needs to check in with daddy putin first.

nostrademons 19 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 30 minutes ago | parent

I doubt Jensen is completely out of the scheme TBH.

jurschreuder 27 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 24 minutes ago | parent

The article has nothing to do with race.

talon8635 19 minutes ago | parent

Lol what on earth?

autoexec 26 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 24 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 21 minutes ago | parent

He should call Eric Swalwell for advice.

estearum 10 minutes ago | parent

What would Swalwell know?

Swalwell was targeted by Fang Fang in 2012 when he was on Dublin, California's city council and running for his first term in the House of Reps.

When he was by the FBI to Fang Fang's ties, he immediately cooperated with the FBI's investigation and did exactly what they requested.

Thinking Swalwell made any mistake whatsoever is a great shibboleth for a Twitterbrained midwit.

Varelion 19 minutes ago | parent

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

aurareturn 17 minutes ago | parent

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

paxy 16 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 15 minutes ago | parent

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

brcmthrowaway 7 minutes ago | parent

Has Jensen ever expressed an interest or personality?

To me, he seems the platonic ideal of the immigrant Bay Area tech worker. There's absolutely nothing inside besides the will and drive to succeed at work.