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Jensen ignored the one core tenet of being a nerd: "Every woman who likes you is a spy."

The Jensen Huang story keeps getting crazier. US intelligence reportedly discovered that Nvidia’s CEO was romantically involved with a suspected Chinese spy. Here's where things get insane: 1.) The woman, Alice Huang, was an executive at Megaspeed, a company under investigation for allegedly helping Chinese firms circumvent US chip export restrictions. 2.) US intelligence believes she was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security, its primary intelligence agency. 3.) Intelligence officials reportedly suspected her objective included gathering information about Huang and potentially influencing Nvidia to push for looser US chip export controls. 4.) Huang has spent the past year repeatedly lobbying Washington to loosen those exact restrictions. 5.) US officials reportedly prepared an intelligence memo detailing the relationship and circulated it among senior government officials shortly before Trump's summit with Xi Jinping. 6.) Trump had reportedly already been briefed on the suspected espionage operation and chose not to act on the information. 7.) Huang has met with Trump repeatedly, reportedly even accompanying him aboard the presidential aircraft on a trip to China. 8.) Megaspeed's Malaysian affiliate reportedly purchased at least $4.8 BILLION in equipment containing Nvidia chips between June 2024 and February 2026. 9.) Federal authorities have been investigating Megaspeed since 2024, with the Justice Department reportedly taking over the Commerce Department's investigation this year. 10.) Investigators reportedly found Nvidia equipment in boxes that appeared ready for shipment rather than installed in operational data centers. 11.) Alice Huang's name was reportedly removed from Megaspeed's corporate documents as scrutiny intensified. Her continuing involvement with the company remains unclear. 12.) Nvidia maintains that it investigated Megaspeed's chip deployments and found no evidence of illegal diversion. 13.) Three congressional committee chairmen are now demanding that Huang appear for a closed-door briefing on November 18. We're talking about the CEO of the world's most valuable company, a suspected Chinese intelligence operation, billions of dollars in advanced AI chips, and the US government's efforts to control China's access to the technology. There is still no public evidence that Huang knowingly cooperated with Chinese intelligence or that the alleged operation successfully influenced US policy. But the questions surrounding this are extraordinary.

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