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gla67890543 | on: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
Spooks from CIA must be aware of this for a long time. The only question now is why this information is leaked now? What is the distraction they are trying to create by leaking this now?
hellgas00 | parent | next
It just seems like a coordinated crack down on Nvidia's relationship China.

Consider that the leak destroys the legitimacy of Huang's lobbying efforts efforts against tighter chips controls to China. In parallel the NYT released yesterday their investigation into commerce dept approvals of h200 chips to Chinese entities that the NYT claims are ghost offices linked to Chinese military contractors [1]. Also consider that these events put Nvidia under long term congressional security oversight with an installed watch dog. Nvidia is losing it's autonomy to cut international deals. Seems like the CIA/permeant state is getting nervous about China again.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/business/economy/nvidia-c...

CodeArtisan | parent | next
It was known for months already.

(May 2026) https://culperresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Culper...

4ggr0 | root | parent
> Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has not only vouched for Megaspeed, but seems to have quite literally walked alongside Megaspeed at every step, while maintaining an uncomfortably close relationship with Megaspeed’s Alice Huang, a Chinese national. He was first spotted partying with Alice Huang in June 2024 – the same month the Apex/Alibaba pledge was filed. He then dined with Alice Huang in Taiwan in May 2025 - just weeks after the news of U.S. trade restrictions.
datahack | parent | next
I would think it’s timed to the market correction. Less stock drop when all ai stocks already dropped.
nemonemo | parent | next
It could be just as simple as taking time to be confident. Or it could have been somebody wanted to use this as a bargaining chip and failed somehow... Who knows.
mi_lk | root | parent
Just days after midterms? Sure
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camgunz | parent | next
I would guess it's to avoid Congressional investigations.
specked-citrus | parent | next
The administration has known about it since at least May. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/rubio-nvidia-...

This "what distraction are they trying to make" line is ridiculous conspiracism. It's completely obvious that someone leaked it to the NY Times because they are alarmed that the admin is doing nothing about what is obviously a huge national security problem.

Zigurd | parent | next
Counterespionage isn't magically more competent than any other intelligence function. It seems like a pretty obvious prediction to make that because of the lackadaisy in following normal national security preventative measures in the Trump administrations, all kinds of preventable penetrations and compromise have happened in the past decade, now that we have a Congress that can investigate these. Elon reportedly calls Putin regularly. That can't be bad, right?
colechristensen | parent | next
Maybe whomever knew wasn't sure of the election outcome of the revelation so they held it until reasonably afterwards.
Betelbuddy | parent | next
It has already leaked Trump and Rubio knew about this for 1 year.
sleight42 | parent | next
Why assume it was a US leak?
sgt101 | parent | next
He has a close relationship with Trump, so this could be an internal Whitehouse play to hurt Trump, or, he might have "disappointed" Trump, so this could be punishment.

Alternatively this could be a Chinese play designed to sow dissent and disruption in the USA post the mid-terms.

Or, it could just be a rather trivial story about an over confident and all to human titan of industry making the kind of mess in his personal life that a lot of people end up making - watch any TV mini series for example after example.

antonvs | root | parent
How would personal trouble in Huang’s life hurt Trump? Compared to all the other things that Trump has done to hurt himself, culminating in the midterm results?

And China, really? What dissent is this going to cause? As for disruption, Nvidia essentially has a monopoly on what they do. Who the person in charge is, or what he’s doing, barely matters at this point.

> watch any TV mini series for example after example.

You might have been watching too many of those.

ransom1538 | parent
Spooks is a pretty knowing term to use. Not exactly a word the average person throws around. And yes, they likely knew long before now. Right after the midterms? Interesting timing. Seems the spooks are doing what spooks do.
rdidjdi3748 | root | parent | next
There’s a British TV show with that title
newterminus | root | parent | next
hey been trying to meet you
antonvs | root | parent
They had to rename it to “MI-5” for the US market. The word doesn’t have the same connotations in the US as it does in the UK. One reason is that it was used as a racial slur in WWII and after the war.
nonethewiser | root | parent | next
It generally doesn't. People should stop reviving the negative connotation. Sure if someone is calling a black person a spook let's call them out but if that's not how it's being used let's not insist it's an inherently racist term. It's totally counter-productive.

Not what you are doing, and I understand that's why they renamed the show but they shouldn't have. While it can be used as a racial slur it doesn't generally have that connotation. I think if you directly asked most people they would either not know about the slur or say something like "I think its a racist term for some group or something." I had to look it up myself to be sure. We can choose to let that usage of the term die.

kelnos | root | parent
I think that's just a result of the term falling out of common use in the US. I'd expect 30 years ago "Spooks" would be a perfectly fine name for a TV show in the US. (I remember watching spy shows/movies and reading spy novels as a kid in the 80s/90s and hearing/reading that term.)
latentsea | root | parent | next
You seem to know it.
nonethewiser | root | parent | next
What are you talking about?
JohnMakin | root | parent
what? no it isn’t