Alice Huang and Jensen Huang at a tech occasion in Taipei in June 2024.
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Nvidia, the tech large that builds the chips that energy synthetic intelligence, stated on Sunday that it had opened an investigation into its CEO, Jensen Huang, following studies that he had engaged in a romantic relationship with a lady generally known as Alice Huang (no relation). Often, a CEO having an affair isn’t that large of a deal, however Alice has been recognized by the U.S. authorities as a spy who was supplying intel to the Chinese language authorities. Jensen copped to having an affair in a letter to the corporate, writing that he was “untrue” to his spouse of greater than 40 years, Lori Huang. On Tuesday, the New York Occasions revealed an in depth report on Alice, the mysterious lady on the heart of this entire debacle. Included within the piece have been a number of pictures of her and Jensen wanting … fairly cozy.
It’s unclear when precisely Alice, a Chinese language tech government on the Singapore-based firm Megaspeed, first met Jensen or when she was allegedly recruited by China’s Ministry of State Safety. The Occasions reported that she had a gathering with Jensen as early as December 2023, the identical yr she purchased the corporate that will change into Megaspeed and shortly earlier than she started shopping for billions of {dollars}’ value of superior AI chips from Nvidia.
What is evident is that Alice was not shy about posting pictures of herself and Jensen on her social media. The Occasions revealed a number of photos pulled from her Weibo and WeChat feeds that present her and the Nvidia CEO sitting simply shut sufficient to make you go “Hmmm.”
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In a single, Alice and Jensen are toasting their wineglasses in entrance of an enormous unfold of meals at a restaurant in Shanghai. In one other, the pair are wanting fairly couple-y on a golf course in California. Parker Schmitt, chief government of the corporate NetThunder, advised the Occasions that Alice’s feed was stuffed with pictures of her and Jensen, which is a “level of satisfaction” within the higher echelons of the tech world.
It does appear to be Alice was very happy with her relationship with Jensen. A number of shops have reported that in June 2024, she bragged to a gaggle of colleagues at a tech occasion in Taipei that she may simply get Jensen to return by. “She stated, ‘I wager you guys I can get Jensen right here,’ after which Jensen instantly confirmed up,” Schmitt advised the Occasions. Jensen then reportedly did a spherical of whiskey photographs with everybody. (A Nvidia spokesperson advised the paper that he already deliberate to attend.)
There’s a photograph of this event as properly, which exhibits Alice and Jensen seated subsequent to one another on a sofa. The image is low high quality sufficient you could’t actually see if their legs are touching, however they positive do look shut.
This entire factor brings up a number of questions for me about up to date spycraft. Are spies allowed to submit? Was she posting as a result of he would have thought it was bizarre if she wasn’t? Was the Chinese language authorities monitoring her posts in any respect and saying, “Hey, diva, these posts actually do make it appear to be you’re having an affair with this man”? Hopefully, we will get these solutions and extra when this will get changed into a superb HBO restricted collection.
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