Are you a CEO? Those invites might work a bit differently.

You are not the CEO of the largest company in the world.

TFA also offers no support for the assertion she's a "spy" vs just a source. When most people hear "spy" they think of a "Non-Official Cover" agent (aka NOC in the biz) with training, a false identity and a directed mission. But those are actually extremely rare. The vast majority of 'spying' is not done by 'spies' in that sense. It's basic information gathering from normal people who are already in a job which puts them in casual contact with a person, company or agency of interest.

There are literally thousands of these 'sources' for every NOC on a targeted mission. Many of these sources aren't even paid, they're just predisposed to be friendly to the nation who wants the info and willing to pass along things they see or hear in exchange for a favor or access. Most of what they pass along is irrelevant and useless impressions or chatter but it's all captured and cross-referenced by analysts.

When Jensen makes a two day visit to some Asian country like Singapore, he probably has over a dozen meetings including various local employees, distributors, vendors, govt agencies or media contacts. Nvidia's posture and distribution plans in Asia are of great interest to China, since they're trying to divert a good chunk of those GPUs to China. I have no doubt the Chinese (and other intel agencies) got reports from over half a dozen different sources regarding what happened during Jensen's visit.

Jensen is very smart and has a lot of experience. He knows he's a high-value target and everyone is info gathering on him. Hypothetically, even if he was banging the hot, young distributor rep when visiting Singapore (and I doubt he is), she wouldn't get any actionable intel. Not because she might send an email report to Chinese intelligence but because she'll certainly give a detailed report to her bosses at the distributor. All of NVidia's distributors are trying to glean any competitive insight or favor from NVidia they can.

This. They seem to be making a mountain out of a molehill that seems to consist of a couple of normal business meetings.

If she is an asset and was close enough to gain physical access to his phone or main computer, that's pretty much the ballgame. CEOs often don't want their devices being on company MDMs, that's for the underlings.

> The Post is not exactly top notch journalism.

I'll go as far as to say it's a right wing agitation propaganda rag. But the story first appeared in the NY Times, as another commenter has linked here,, so it's possible that the story may be accurate (though undoubtedly the nypost has sensationalized it, as that's their specialty), but both things can be true simultaneously. The NY Post can be trash and this series of events might have really happened.

Not sure why the New York Post is being used here considering its complete lack of credibility and the fact this story appeared in the New York Times first

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There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is just a hit piece - IE, they were looking to paint Nvidia and Jensen in some bad light and found a vague lead. Didn't matter if the evidence isn't substantial. Just publish and smear first.

Nothing has to be collected. All they need to show is that she has some link to foreign government intelligence and attempted to do anything. Good chance she was an unregistered agent which is a violation.

What exactly does "better" mean? Both are tools for manipulating public opinion. The NYT is better at inflating it's own reputation.

If NYT was honest, at some point in the past decade it would have acknowledged that one of the primary reporters on its Donald Trump beat was the daughter of an executive VP at the long-time PR firm of Fred and Donald Trump.

https://archive.is/dOHL1

Not everyone might be aware of what you are talking about. Would prefer some Context

There’s still no evidence that the malicious PDFs were planted by archive.today. The source could have served malicious content to the crawler, no?

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

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What is going on with Megaspeed anyway?

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

yea, Chinese ladies use those crazy filters and i was shocked to find out how they looked like in real life.

> On that note, they never worked on french spies as infidelity and sex stuff hold seemingly zero leverage over french men.

Tell that to Jean-Luc Brunel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Brunel

You may be interested in the case of Bernard Boursicot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Boursicot

Only a "close relationship", no sex is alleged.

It's still advisable to pretend that it might work, though. Just saying...you've got to think strategically when you work in the national security business.

It was publicly known that Mitterrand had a mistress

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Isn’t that what soldiers do?

That type of profession chooses you, not you chooses the profession.

LibreWolf is your friend.

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It is NY Post after all

EDIT: Looks like link now points to NYT

McCarthyism on the menu? Why, Cold War II is already being served! Hurry up, it's getting... cold : o

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.

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

weaselwhistle

He's saving it as kompromat.

What are we even doing here?

Gates and Bezos slept around with younger women and lost more in divorces than 99.9999% of men could ever dream of making. Elon has recreated the backstabbing and infighting of imperial harem politics with a bunch of women he didn't even physically sleep with.

Despite his other failings you have to give Zuck credit for genuinely being a wholesome wifeguy by all appearances.

I can see it now. A US national security program to get future CEOs laid more. What.

I don't really understand the common wisdom that if you get enough when you're young, you won't want it later. It wasn't espionage, but Shannon Sharpe just lost a $100M ESPN media deal last year for chasing young tail, and he has been fit, wealthy, and famously a playboy surrounded by women since his early 20s if not earlier.

From what I have seen the truth is closer to the opposite; that you don't get it out of your system. You get it into your system. I'm afraid that if one truly wants to avoid these scandals you're better off following the Mike Pence playbook, not the Tony Stark one.

I think that is a rather simplistic view of what motivates people.

I would at least like to see some statistics on how much early adulthood behaviour predicts particular later life behaviours before making any conclusions.

Rather than characterising things as 'getting enough trim' perhaps a broader education in dealing with the emotions of life might be more productive.

Likely never as that's an ego death many of these guys couldn't handle. They'd implode from shame.

I’m yet to see evidence that getting more in your youth makes you want less as you age.

In a society as transactional as ours (contemporary US culture) one must ask themselves "cui bono?" a hundred times a day. I'd imagine that if the answer is "me" enough times the one develops blind spots such as this one.

On the flip side novels have been written about the lies people tell themselves when they get romantically entangled with obvious troublemakers. Those plots didn't come from nowhere...

> how not getting enough trim in your younger years makes you especially vulnerable to these schemes once you acquire power and wealth?

I don't sure there is any connection. It is the same things regardless of your popularity in younger years.

It's not an unreasonable point, but let's not pretend these are naive chumps who crumble at the sight of a woman. In this case, Jensen could have been coordinating with intel agencies to feed disinformation or a honeypot honeypot. Obvious speculation, but clearly he understands the game on the table better than us. Still, it is a tactic as old as time, so I am sure plenty fall victim to some degree

they are probably gonna target these AI nerds next

universal basic girlfriend you say?

> not getting enough trim in your younger years

Huh?

For each of your 80 stories there are probably a dozen stories of former frat boys and Trump/Epstein types also being in compromising relationships.

I think it has much less to do with any individual's sexual history and much more to do with the rapacious/hypersexual elite culture in USA and elsewhere.

wtf would that discussion even look like?

Maybe monogamy is not natural for men?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294782 and marked it off offtopic.

Please don't post flamebait or instigate generic tangents on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

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

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

> "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.

So they leaked a story about Nvidia violating export restrictions in order to “blackmail” Nvidia into… obeying export restrictions? Wow, that’s some good old fashioned Trumpian 44D chess right there.

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

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I wish more billionaires kept their opinions to themselves, rather than trying to influence everybody.

He has a leather jacket, does that count?

The article has nothing to do with race.

Lol what on earth?