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?
Would you want to spend your time in a nation looking for 2 of their smart people out of 1000 or make national ties so you can get hundreds of smart people out of their billion?
Also internal distributions will not be even, those smart people are far more likely to be clustered.
I think it's hard to get a good read on China's actual economic situation from the outside. Which, in itself, speaks to larger issues as we would understand them in the West.
There are plenty information about China on the outside, but nobody is paying anyone to push those into your feeds. It doesn't benefit any US entities to paint China in good light, and China largely doesn't market itself to the wider world (maybe to their detriment).
> It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals.
The US as a whole is accessible to a ton of foreign nationals because there was a push in like the 70s-early 2000s to offshore as much as possible to developing nations and exploit the arbitrage of wage labor back home. That was coupled with a foreign policy that was essentially trying to assimilate the cultures through that trade relation. Obviously China didn't reciprocate that, and many other places didn't either. But the America side of that open door policy (sentiment really) hasn't really gone away, even with the more recent immigration stuff.
I was responding to the claim that "China" or "Chinese as a whole" have higher IQs, that's not really what's happening. Which is why I brought up India, because it's a similar situation, lots and lots of people, plenty of those people are really smart. But it's a measure of a distribution, not really meaningful when talking about the people as whole themselves. Which itself is reductionist.
You're not contradicting anything the poster said. The reason for a lot of Chinese students and workers having high IQs wasn't the point of discussion, the sheer quantity was, and most people can see they have a lot of such people.
If the Chinese create such desirable societies, why is it that so many of them are eager to leave China in order to live in the Anglosphere? Why is it that there is no equivalent flow of migrants out of the Anglosphere into China?
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 who is encroaching on its neighboring countries? Attacking ships in Philippines waters. Yelling at everyone demanding respect while disrespecting everyone around them.
> India and China share a disputed 3,440km (2,100-mile) boundary known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This de facto border runs through remote and inaccessible natural paths along the Himalayas, passing through rivers, remote mountains and forest cover. It is ill-defined and its demarcations have remained a source of contention between two neighbours who fought a major war in 1962, in which India suffered a humiliating defeat.
Isn't Cami Clark just the classic sleep-their-way-up type? She didn't end up in the Whitehouse unlike a certain other one but her marriage at 20 was to a 64 year old...
Well, no, because she approached Jeffrey Epstein after his release from serving a prison sentence for child prostitution, and proposed (to him!) that they start up a "porn company" together. There are no "classic" explanations for that specific chapter of her biography.
I don't know what to make of this person's life story; she's certainly an extreme statistical outlier.
"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.
I perceive that it is our national interest to collaborate widely and collegially worldwide, including with Chinese businesses and scientists. This "red scare" is so stupid. I do not give one crap about OpenAI or Anthropic making a killing. I am more likely to personally benefit from cheap, democratically controlled, and internationally regulated AI. It is clear that America is a Nazi country. We're the bad guys!
Claude was already used in offensive operations in Iran and Venezuela. Why on earth would I want America to have a commanding lead on this? So we can drone strike anyone who disagrees with renaming the Pacific the "American Ocean"?
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.
> 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.
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?).
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.
> "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.
I'm pretty sure that's not it. They had 30+ models benchmarked and ready at launch, for a seamless transition. We're talking about the charts that're the hero images on their landing page.
These comparison charts missing two of the most popular models are defective.
(Also, these two happen to be "flash" models, which are among the fastest and cheapest to run benchmarks on. Pennies per task).
"These days" are ending. Nothing about the current geopolitical climate, global supply chain, energy price, or socioeconomic reality of inter-generational quality of life chasm is stable. Taking a trillion dollar bite out of a bubble beneficiary is a clear opening move for a novel government with restored oversight and an eye on the books.
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.
Another interpretation is that someone in the intelligence community felt that since Trump was ignoring what they perceived to be a serious threat to security, their best recourse was to use the media to raise an alarm.
Hmm, that's a possible read on it. I'd initially assumed an administration leak because the article seems more pro-Trump than the facts warrant (eg. "Mr. Huang, one of the most powerful figures in the A.I. revolution as well as an influential ally of President Trump’s" => Jensen Huang seems neutral/Democratic to me, though primarily concerned with the survival of his business, the picture of the White House luncheon with tech leaders => look at how he's projecting power and the support of the tech community, "People who have watched the two men interact say Mr. Trump has been won over by the lavish praise Mr. Huang has given the president in public" => look at how much lavish praise Mr. Trump gets!). But on a second read, all of those could be interpreted as the CIA complaining about how the close relationship between Trump & Huang is jeopardizing national security, and a few other comments in the article (eg. the sentences about how the Biden administration moved to clamp down on AI exports to China before Trump took over, and how this investigation started under the Biden administration) would support that read.
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.
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
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.
Here on HN, the submitter submitted a link to the NYPost article, but in the description they put a link to the NYTimes version and an archive.is capture of the NYTimes.
> I didn't see sources in either article in the second paragraph
Paragraph 2 from the New York Post article:
“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.”
That's not a source. The source would be whoever the New York Times talked to, which they actually don't cite:
> This account is based on interviews with people briefed on the surveillance, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the findings are drawn from classified intelligence, as well as other officials and industry executives and analysts.
It very literally is. A biography on Thomas Jefferson will list sources. It would be beyond nonsense to suggest the book has no sources because it didn't talk to a dead man.
> The source would be whoever the New York Times talked to
That would be their source. Someone complaining about the Post should know the difference.
> 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.
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.
When is this industry going to have an open, honest discussion about how not getting enough trim in your younger years makes you especially vulnerable to these schemes once you acquire power and wealth?
I've seen 80 variations of this same story over the years.
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.
It’s a generational thing. Zuck is about the age when being nerdy became a perfectly normal thing in mainstream culture. When Gates and co were growing up their personality was the butt of jokes, and they’d be laughed at for trying to approach the “popular” kids.
That seems like either the behavior of an extremely devoted husband or the behavior of a husband who cheats shamelessly and then gives her showy gifts to "make up for it"
With the blowups of 2 prominent "wifeguys" in recent years and Zuck's attempt at being more "masculine", as he called it, I'm suspecting it's the latter.
iirc, it originally was gonna be of himself but he changed it because that looked a bit too…on the nose.
I think the wife hates it.
Many of those with options see it as a badge of pride to stay loyal. One of those, ya I could if I wanted to but hey look I have self control…most of the time.
Bezos i dont think is in the same bucket as gates. If you read about it, he was blackmailed for cheating and said f it and that is how his wife found out. Even then, he seems to be into…older women if his new wife is anything to go by.
Both of Bezos' wives are 6 years younger than him (he's 62 and both MacKenzie Scott and Lauren Sánchez are 56). Their ages are only noteworthy for being so completely not noteworthy for a rich guy. It seems like he has age-appropriate taste in women.
Mostly monogamous marriage is almost certainly a stable equilibrium given that you see it in societies all over the world that had no contact with each other and little in common otherwise. You see monogamous marriage in neolithic europe as well as among native americans.
I suspect that before the invention of agriculture and ownership of land, serial monogamy with occasional fooling around was the most prevalent relationship style. Once people could develop wealth they started worrying about passing it down to their children and that led to more settling down.
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.
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.
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
in addition to corporate aircraft, drivers, physicians, security, etc... it's high time boardrooms start provisioning high-performing CEOs with concubines.
Why? I think it is the most important thing. How can you get peak performance from the men, when they physiologically stop caring about all that important for capitalization stuff when they chasing the woman?
He said concubine not slave. You have to be blind if you believe there aren't enough modern women who would be more than willing to have casual sex with a mil/billionaire for money when most of them already (try to) do that for free.
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...
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.
Why think about it and draw conclusions from there? That's not how science works. Why should something like sexual proclivities be treated any different? Do we think about how there must be a couple od basic elements and fire is one of them and it's inside the candle and that's how it all works? I mean, just think about it for more than five seconds! How else could a candle work unless the fire is already inside it!
Anyway, here's an actual study about sociosexuality that followed 288 men and those that got married and had kids
showed a decrease in casual sex vs men who didn't.
Given that China is releasing open weight, self-hostable models I'd far rather NVIDIA work with them than with the US and the closed source model providers. I'd rather have a Chinese model running on my own machine with NVIDIA hardware than an Anthropic/OpenAI/X model running in a data center somewhere, for multiple reasons.
Super weird that the only relationship documented in this article is two "dinners with AI executives in Asia." Does that count as a close relationship? I get invited to AI dinners in the Bay Area nonstop, and I understand they are always transactional (people wanting to sell me stuff), not actual relations with people who just happen to enjoy my presence...
Great reporting can come from unlikely sources. If you told anyone from 2013 that TMZ would be a semi-respected publication in 2026, you’d have been laughed out of the room.
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.
The linked nypost article certainly means to imply an illicit affair, both in how things are phrased and the mention of his wife and kids (the existence of which has no bearing on the story other than to remind you they exist while he is hanging out with some other female).
$1 billion for trafficking would be 100,000 trafficking victims at a rate of $10,000 per victim, which is claimed by LLMs and some Internet sites. It does not make sense and looks like another operation where ironically the trafficking was the cover.
In other words, we know nothing about the real dynamics that led to the "suicides" of Epstein and Brunel.
Ironically if the press had hounded Mitterand out of office over a sex scandal, France would likely be in far better shape today. More than anyone else he converted France from a nation of builders to a nation of takers.
A couple of questions after reading this article. The Post is not exactly top notch journalism.
First, does her activity actually fit the definition of “espionage”?
Espionage is the act of secretly gathering confidential, classified, or proprietary information without the owner's permission
The most important question is what she actually sent and how secret it was. Most companies have levels of secrecy ranging from non public to highly sensitive. For example, schematics of their chip would be concerning.
Also, this seems pretty different from setting up a mic behind a TV.
Second, although the article tries very hard to imply there was some kind of infidelity, adding irrelevant details about Jensen’s family, I don’t know that any of that 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
Sure. But I'm sure linking to a paywall inevitably affects the traffic to the post. Extra clicks and scrolling to find a readable link only adds friction.
I'm not an NY Post reader but I respect them for breaking the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020. The "credible" outlets tried to claim it was disinformation at the time. It took the NY Times 17 months to acknowledge that it was true.
I view them all as ideologically captured propaganda and tools of political interests. I'm also perfectly fine with that. What bothers me is denial from them and their ardent readers that they are not actually "fair and balanced" or objective on stories that can be used to score political points.
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.
I agree with everything you said, but all we know is that she had business meetings with him.
The picture in the article has a bunch of other people around them, in a bar/club. Pretty sure he wasn’t laying out the blueprints for the next chip right then and there.
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.
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.
I disagree, I think this piece is the consequence of the Trump administration’s inaction. It isn’t even really a hit on Jensen:
> Mr. Huang has not received a defensive briefing, warnings sometimes given to Americans who are being targeted by foreign intelligence services, people briefed on the surveillance said.
It’s essentially saying intelligence was gathered that a Chinese asset was close to Jensen and absolutely nothing was done about it.
He's the CEO of a company that is in it's second of 15-ish years 'selling shovel' booms. The guy who's motto has been 'We are 30 days from going out of business' for... about-ish 30 years.
Corporate espionage should have been a concern for a good part of that in his communications.
We have no clue what actually happened. For all we know it's a case of 'he was warned, his internal security groups already knew, and they were feeding useless info the whole time'.
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.
Jared Kushner’s direct access to the Russian oligarch is more damning than any Chinese industrial espionage campaign, which happens every day around the world. Yesterday, Russia was a hostile energy supplier; today, it is an energy-trading partner. Good or bad depends on who is in power.
to be fair Jensen seems to be rubbing butts with pretty much anyone the past year. Every day I see a new video with him and some billionaire / podcaster / influencer et cetera.
The technology is honey for the flies of geopolitics.
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.
There's a man that fell off the subway platform, about to get killed by the subway train, and the New York post photographer saw a great opportunity for a photo op for his employer instead of, y'know helping the guy out. Sure, the NYT has had its fair share of scandals but the NY Post isn't well respected for a whole other level of malfeasance.
It wasn't an employee, it was a freelancer who likely tried to sell the photo to multiple outlets. The guy also explained that it didn't happen as you describe https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-20611140
The NY Post is crass, we all know that. But if that's your best example of their malfeasance, then I guess they aren't that evil after all.
If you can’t tell the difference between two things that are obviously very different, you lack discernment. It’s nothing to do with snobbery, although people who struggle with such issues often perceive it that way because they don’t want to acknowledge shortcomings in themselves.
> 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.
It is funny that the spy profile picture is totally photo-shopped compared to her in real life. Unrecognizable. But looks like to be common for older Chinese to alter that much profile pictures.
Sounds like the dead ANT faction with their monopoly wrapped in sanctimony schemes wants to throw shade on the smartest guy in the room, as if Trump or anyone around him is going to believe anything that comes out of the NY Times anyway. I wouldn't expect these people to lose gracefully but this is just pathetic.
They thought they were honeypotting Jensen but turns out it was actually just two 6000 Pro Blackwell cards in a leather trenchcoat running the AI model used to generate Tupacs hologram
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pixl97 | 11 hours ago
Would you want to spend your time in a nation looking for 2 of their smart people out of 1000 or make national ties so you can get hundreds of smart people out of their billion?
Also internal distributions will not be even, those smart people are far more likely to be clustered.
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thesmtsolver2 | 6 hours ago
China ranks 178 out of 180 in press freedom. How are you then getting plenty of information that is accurate?
https://rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-index-press-freedom-25-year-low
lurk2 | 2 hours ago
Speak for yourself. The CCP have been showing me images of nice clean high-speed rail stations in China for the last 2 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_Chinese
throwaway384034 | 11 hours ago
This is what I was responding to. I'm trying to figure out how it is nonsense because India has a large population.
India already makes up like 70% of H1Bs.
Avicebron | 11 hours ago
The US as a whole is accessible to a ton of foreign nationals because there was a push in like the 70s-early 2000s to offshore as much as possible to developing nations and exploit the arbitrage of wage labor back home. That was coupled with a foreign policy that was essentially trying to assimilate the cultures through that trade relation. Obviously China didn't reciprocate that, and many other places didn't either. But the America side of that open door policy (sentiment really) hasn't really gone away, even with the more recent immigration stuff.
I was responding to the claim that "China" or "Chinese as a whole" have higher IQs, that's not really what's happening. Which is why I brought up India, because it's a similar situation, lots and lots of people, plenty of those people are really smart. But it's a measure of a distribution, not really meaningful when talking about the people as whole themselves. Which itself is reductionist.
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AlecSchueler | 11 hours ago
Now China is the grown-up in the room while the US is running around like a maniac in Venezuela, Iran, and wherever else
ballon_monkey | 11 hours ago
No, China is no more a grownup than the US.
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https://www.the-independent.com/asia/india/india-china-borde...
wonnage | 5 hours ago
> India and China share a disputed 3,440km (2,100-mile) boundary known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This de facto border runs through remote and inaccessible natural paths along the Himalayas, passing through rivers, remote mountains and forest cover. It is ill-defined and its demarcations have remained a source of contention between two neighbours who fought a major war in 1962, in which India suffered a humiliating defeat.
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(According to the Wall Street Journal)
peri-cl | 10 hours ago
I don't know what to make of this person's life story; she's certainly an extreme statistical outlier.
tehjoker | 12 hours ago
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.
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Claude was already used in offensive operations in Iran and Venezuela. Why on earth would I want America to have a commanding lead on this? So we can drone strike anyone who disagrees with renaming the Pacific the "American Ocean"?
ActionHank | 12 hours ago
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2OEH8eoCRo0 | 12 hours ago
What did Jensen know and when did he know it?
He should be forced to testify in front of congress.
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slowin | 12 hours ago
The headline is from the Post article, not the NYT version is much better.
lurk2 | 12 hours ago
nostrademons | 12 hours ago
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 | 12 hours ago
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 | 12 hours ago
peri-cl | 12 hours ago
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 | 11 hours ago
That is really weird given how widely used they are.
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peri-cl | 9 hours ago
These comparison charts missing two of the most popular models are defective.
(Also, these two happen to be "flash" models, which are among the fastest and cheapest to run benchmarks on. Pennies per task).
contingencies | 11 hours ago
pixl97 | 11 hours ago
For one, the US doesn't do anti-trust these days, just pay off uncle-trump to get your way.
Two, there are tons of model providers.
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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.
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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.
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nielsbot | 11 hours ago
EDIT: Looks like link now points to NYT
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Paragraph 2 from the New York Post article:
“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.”
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> This account is based on interviews with people briefed on the surveillance, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the findings are drawn from classified intelligence, as well as other officials and industry executives and analysts.
JumpCrisscross | 3 hours ago
It very literally is. A biography on Thomas Jefferson will list sources. It would be beyond nonsense to suggest the book has no sources because it didn't talk to a dead man.
> The source would be whoever the New York Times talked to
That would be their source. Someone complaining about the Post should know the difference.
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Lmao
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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.
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lakeviewterrace | 11 hours ago
I've seen 80 variations of this same story over the years.
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JumpCrisscross | 11 hours ago
Huh?
nielsbot | 11 hours ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trim (second noun sense, def #8)
rglover | 11 hours ago
_--__--__ | 11 hours ago
Despite his other failings you have to give Zuck credit for genuinely being a wholesome wifeguy by all appearances.
paxy | 11 hours ago
jordanb | 11 hours ago
That seems like either the behavior of an extremely devoted husband or the behavior of a husband who cheats shamelessly and then gives her showy gifts to "make up for it"
pesus | 10 hours ago
rustystump | 10 hours ago
I think the wife hates it.
Many of those with options see it as a badge of pride to stay loyal. One of those, ya I could if I wanted to but hey look I have self control…most of the time.
lakeviewterrace | 6 hours ago
dominotw | 10 hours ago
rustystump | 10 hours ago
delecti | 10 hours ago
amanaplanacanal | 7 hours ago
delecti | 7 hours ago
throwaway384034 | 11 hours ago
WhrRTheBaboons | 11 hours ago
thinkybrewster | 10 hours ago
rayiner | 10 hours ago
amanaplanacanal | 7 hours ago
Lerc | 11 hours ago
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.
pphysch | 11 hours ago
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.
kraken_cult | 11 hours ago
vehemenz | 10 hours ago
pphysch | 8 hours ago
wand3r | 11 hours ago
some_random | 11 hours ago
missedthecue | 10 hours ago
Natfan | 10 hours ago
antonvs | 10 hours ago
MentalM | 8 hours ago
Natfan | 3 hours ago
akimbostrawman | an hour ago
alexjplant | 11 hours ago
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...
missedthecue | 11 hours ago
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.
rustystump | 10 hours ago
Once you open pandoras box, you dont put it back in. It doesnt matter what age.
The whole, they didnt get enough when younger, sounds like a very strange weird explanation that falls flat when you think for more than 5s about it.
solyin | 9 hours ago
Anyway, here's an actual study about sociosexuality that followed 288 men and those that got married and had kids showed a decrease in casual sex vs men who didn't.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/famconfacpub/267/
MrBuddyCasino | 11 hours ago
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afavour | 10 hours ago
MentalM | 8 hours ago
I don't sure there is any connection. It is the same things regardless of your popularity in younger years.
jansport123 | 8 hours ago
laimewhisps | 11 hours ago
zetazzed | 11 hours ago
everdrive | 11 hours ago
ummonk | 9 hours ago
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jimbob45 | 7 hours ago
NDlurker | 7 hours ago
thesmtsolver2 | 6 hours ago
potatototoo99 | 6 hours ago
jon128 | 11 hours ago
PowerElectronix | 11 hours ago
On that note, they never worked on french spies as infidelity and sex stuff hold seemingly zero leverage over french men.
jonathanstrange | 11 hours ago
PowerElectronix | 11 hours ago
flowerlad | 11 hours ago
bayarearefugee | 11 hours ago
This may be entirely unfair framing of course.
slowin | 11 hours ago
Tell that to Jean-Luc Brunel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Brunel
throw-qqqqq | 11 hours ago
kraken_cult | 11 hours ago
kevin_thibedeau | 6 hours ago
wand3r | 11 hours ago
wtlak | 10 hours ago
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/31/jp-morgan-j...
$1 billion for trafficking would be 100,000 trafficking victims at a rate of $10,000 per victim, which is claimed by LLMs and some Internet sites. It does not make sense and looks like another operation where ironically the trafficking was the cover.
In other words, we know nothing about the real dynamics that led to the "suicides" of Epstein and Brunel.
xnyan | 10 hours ago
laimewhisps | 8 hours ago
insane_dreamer | 11 hours ago
nradov | 10 hours ago
jimworm | 9 hours ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Boursicot
janalsncm | 11 hours ago
First, does her activity actually fit the definition of “espionage”?
Espionage is the act of secretly gathering confidential, classified, or proprietary information without the owner's permission
The most important question is what she actually sent and how secret it was. Most companies have levels of secrecy ranging from non public to highly sensitive. For example, schematics of their chip would be concerning.
Also, this seems pretty different from setting up a mic behind a TV.
Second, although the article tries very hard to imply there was some kind of infidelity, adding irrelevant details about Jensen’s family, I don’t know that any of that happened.
int0x29 | 11 hours ago
bookofjoe | 10 hours ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-...
https://archive.ph/K7bih
hamburglar1 | 10 hours ago
lern_too_spel | 8 hours ago
johnnyanmac | 9 hours ago
teiferer | 9 hours ago
Though the NYT article should be the primary one, not the ny post one.
johnnyanmac | 8 hours ago
kelseyfrog | 8 hours ago
CoastalCoder | 7 hours ago
cherrycherry98 | 6 hours ago
I view them all as ideologically captured propaganda and tools of political interests. I'm also perfectly fine with that. What bothers me is denial from them and their ardent readers that they are not actually "fair and balanced" or objective on stories that can be used to score political points.
CodingJeebus | 11 hours ago
janalsncm | 10 hours ago
The picture in the article has a bunch of other people around them, in a bar/club. Pretty sure he wasn’t laying out the blueprints for the next chip right then and there.
giantg2 | 11 hours ago
aurareturn | 11 hours ago
afavour | 10 hours ago
> Mr. Huang has not received a defensive briefing, warnings sometimes given to Americans who are being targeted by foreign intelligence services, people briefed on the surveillance said.
It’s essentially saying intelligence was gathered that a Chinese asset was close to Jensen and absolutely nothing was done about it.
to11mtm | 10 hours ago
And by that, I mean...
He's the CEO of a company that is in it's second of 15-ish years 'selling shovel' booms. The guy who's motto has been 'We are 30 days from going out of business' for... about-ish 30 years.
Corporate espionage should have been a concern for a good part of that in his communications.
We have no clue what actually happened. For all we know it's a case of 'he was warned, his internal security groups already knew, and they were feeding useless info the whole time'.
afavour | 10 hours ago
We have on the record sources saying that he was not warned by the government. Hence me saying this is a story about government failure.
what | 5 hours ago
tty456 | 9 hours ago
walrus01 | 9 hours ago
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.
sirmike_ | 11 hours ago
imagetic | 11 hours ago
madhacker | 11 hours ago
shironandonand | 10 hours ago
The technology is honey for the flies of geopolitics.
Rapzid | 10 hours ago
Also, New York Post? Let's do better.
GolfPopper | 10 hours ago
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
solyin | 10 hours ago
https://nypost.com/2012/12/05/a-picture-of-controversy/
There's a man that fell off the subway platform, about to get killed by the subway train, and the New York post photographer saw a great opportunity for a photo op for his employer instead of, y'know helping the guy out. Sure, the NYT has had its fair share of scandals but the NY Post isn't well respected for a whole other level of malfeasance.
GolfPopper | 10 hours ago
https://fair.org/home/20-years-later-nyt-still-cant-face-its...
WillPostForFood | 9 hours ago
tredre3 | 8 hours ago
The NY Post is crass, we all know that. But if that's your best example of their malfeasance, then I guess they aren't that evil after all.
antonvs | 10 hours ago
The issues you allude to don’t create an equivalence, except in the minds of people with no capacity for discernment whatsoever.
GolfPopper | 10 hours ago
aliasxneo | 9 hours ago
antonvs | 5 hours ago
Rapzid | 8 hours ago
I doubt the NY Post would even deny they are a trashy tabloid. It's their whole thing and understanding that is how you make money in that game.
baobabKoodaa | an hour ago
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dead_hn_theory | 6 hours ago
motbus3 | 10 hours ago
dmead | 10 hours ago
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breppp | 8 hours ago
throw665345 | 5 hours ago
breppp | 20 minutes ago
howard941 | 9 hours ago
Res ipsa loquitor
greatgib | 9 hours ago
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metalspot | 7 hours ago
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cluckindan | 3 hours ago
accidc | 3 hours ago
johanyc | 2 hours ago
King-Aaron | an hour ago
Just beyond words.
Melatonic | 12 minutes ago