US intelligence agencies claim CEO Jensen Huang of Nvidia, one of the most powerful companies on Earth, had an affair with a Chinese spy. However, there is no proof of this.
In fact, all of the evidence suggests something much less nefarious: that Jensen Huang’s lover Alice Huang (of no relation) is simply a Chinese businesswoman who was helping Nvidia bypass US export restrictions in order to sell AI chips to Chinese companies — against the wishes of both the US and Chinese governments.
This is some weird journalism. Nobody cares where Jensen sticks his wang, the entire reason its news is exactly the exchange of GPUs that this article is claiming is a nothing burger.
And it’s hilariously saying that the Chinese government was against bypassing the import restrictions?
Come on. Nobody is buying this that isn’t on .ml already.
Nobody cares where Jensen sticks his wang
The entirety of the western internet disagrees with this theory. There has been nothing this week except “OMG China ruined the AI bubble by forcing Huang to sleep with a CHINESE spy! This is awful! How dare CHINA ruin the entirety of the AI speculative bubble and wreck our economy!”
the entire reason its news is exactly the exchange of GPUs that this article is claiming is a nothing burger.
This is a nothing burger though. The restriction of sales to China has caused massive investment by the Chinese government into domestic chip production, and has caused AI companies in China to focus on optimization instead of propaganda. Hence why pretty much all ‘free’ or ‘low cost’ agent offering sites use Chinese models which are more than twice as efficient in token use. China is continuing with this. The company that did violate US sanctions and Chinese law was renting access primarily to non-Chinese citizens, or via obscured status compute pools.
This was objectively not ‘oh evil china bad spy honey pot super secret sales!’ This was, 'guy stuck his dick in a half dozen women, including one who used her affair for a Singaporean company providing… 0.02% of Nvidia’s revenue to China.
I’m on board with the impact of this being relatively minor; but since we have important men literally raping children with little pushback, I’m assuming a man having age-appropriate affairs with successful women shouldn’t really rate that highly as a public concern.
And I don’t know if you read the news, but there’s a full court press on against China, coordinated by the US. The United States absolutely wants to hamstring China as much as I can. Not to say that China isn’t doing bad stuff, but I just don’t fundamentally understand why the United States can tell South Korea not to import chips to China and when China finds a work around, somehow China is the villain?
Anyway, it’s hard for me to read about this and not link it back to the barrage of anti-China news.
Also agreed, China’s done great work in democraticizing AI and I ain’t a commie, but it’s nice to see the capitalists stooges get a bloody nose. I hope Sam and Dario see prison time before this is all over.
I’m on board with the impact of this being relatively minor;
No you were right the first time, the scandal is that Jensen had an affair with a person smuggling chips to China, circumventing US sanctions.
I’m not a legal expert, but it seems to me this could go as far as being treason by Jensen Huang!!
For best reporting on this you might want to watch the video Gamers Nexus made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYU_geUwQoAAlso being a Chinese spy can be relevant because being with Huang Jensen brings her one step away from The US President.
So it is significant whether she is a spy or not, but even without that, Huang Jensen may have participating actively in highly illegal activity that is borderline treason.I mean, this is all based on South Korea being a client state of the United States, which is fucking bullshit.
How did it become about South Korea? It’s about Nvidia being an American company and Jensen Huang an American citizen, and very specific regulations on what they can export to China. And they are very specifically also obligated to prevent circumvention of those restrictions.
Participating directly or even failing to do anything to prevent it is Clearly and without a doubt illegal under those rules.
The illegal exports were through Singapore, if that’s what you meant?
Imagine if the leather jacket man had not been fellating Trump in between his female escapades. The story would be that HE was the Chinese spy.
US taxpayers fund bombs to commit genocide in Israel and trip over themselves to cowtow to corrupt interests, but selling computer chips to China is a criminal act.
Is China a perfect country? No, but they have far higher educational standards than the rest of the world and put far fewer of their citizens in prison compared to the USA. They export far less violence. Their society slowly becomes more free while western societies succumb to capitalist funded fascistic corporate surveillance and control.
So, does it matter that western press used a caricature of “Chinese spy” to cover up Jenson and his girlfriend violating the monopolistic export controls of the US to sell (GASP!) computer chips to a paying buyer? Mostly used to make memes and chat bots?
There’s nothing weird about this story. What’s weird is how blind western populations are to their domestic propaganda.
When I criticize America for unilaterally locking China out of markets, people assume I’m a Chinese bot.
When I criticize Chinese propaganda as obvious propaganda, I get criticized for being MAGA-brained.
My only loyalty to is to truth and fairness.
Is there a short-hand way to say that without literally getting into an argument with someone literally every single time I make a comment? Is it possible for people to just take what I say at face value without immediately assuming I’m an operative?
Maybe you are a Chinese brained MAGA bot? 🤣🤣🤣
Damn, that would explain a lot.
I feel like I just found an origami unicorn on my door step.
Kudos for Blade Runner reference. 👍😎
I guess that leaves me unsure what your point was. If you see that the spy part is propaganda then you more or less agree with the main thrust of the article right? Ie, the spy shit is propaganda and the real story is about illegal sales? (and by extension whether they should be illegal at all.)
Wow, amazing how different this looks in the afternoon from when I read it this morning. Yes, it seems like a potentially reasonable take, but I still think it’s a red flag that the Chinese government would object. I mean, sure, they might SAY the object, but why would anyone really believe them.
China’s official objection is probably more of a matter of politics and policy. At a technical level, China doesn’t need to have someone close to Jensen to learn about chip design (they’d want someone deeper in the organization at a more technical role) Blurring the lines between a honeypot relationship with leadership only to achieve something as limited as smuggling chips would totally undermine the intelligence operation potential. In any case, reconciling every detail in every incentive is probably not needed to see through the simplistic story of her as a spy and him as an easily manipulated sex feind.
I don’t fucking care