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I only just learned that Alice Huang happens to share a family name (at least, its romanized spelling) with Jensen.

> The FBI has been investigating Huang’s affair for at least a year. But Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Thursday that there are still “no conclusions reached by the Department of Justice, or by me, or by [FBI] Director Patel around who she is or is not.

Just for context:

> In April 2023, Trump hired [Todd] Blanche to defend him for concealed hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels and he led Trump's defense in the 2024 criminal trial. Blanche later defended Trump in cases involving federal classified documents and election obstruction. In November 2024, following his victory in the 2024 presidential election, President-elect Donald Trump announced Blanche as his nominee for deputy attorney general. Blanche was confirmed by the Senate in March 2025.[1]

He defended Trump's White House media ban[2] and most recently threatened to prosecute Democrats planning oversight probes into the administration[3].

FBI Director Kash Patel, for anyone who doesn't already know, is a Trump loyalist who was a director of Trump Media & Technology Group and reportedly made over $500,000 from Trump's political campaign. It is literally insane that he is the director of anything in the government[4].

Bottom line: time will tell who Alice Huang really was, but given the reports that Trump was informed she might have been a spy a year ago and didn't act on it, you can't expect honesty from loyalists he put in law enforcement positions.

If there's any concern that his inaction was a mistake, you can expect all of the people he put in positions of power to do whatever it takes to defend him, and that includes fudge the truth about the intelligence they had on Alice Huang.

Sources:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/27/todd-blanche...

[3] https://www.ms.now/news/todd-blanche-threat-prosecution-demo...

[4] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/the-fbis-controversial-...

> likely knowledge of selling to the rival nation despite the current laws

this is what the parent is saying is the problem. How is her not being spy change that?

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These weren't only affairs.

Some were allegedly with direct reports. One was allegeldy with an individual who posed a security risk. In each instance, there significant risk to the board, the company and shareholders.

He's obviously been very succesful in many elements of his role but this is very poor decision making. He could have just had affairs outside of work and been fine.

Perhaps true, but someone who will lie to the person closest to them won’t hesitate for a second to screw over other people in their orbit.

Relations between bosses and workers are likely against company rules. They are in many companies at least. So at least two affairs are against business guidelines and one with a CCP associate.

One affair, shame on him. Three affairs, and wanting him to stay as CEO shame on them.

The problem was not that he was having affairs. The problem wasn’t even that he got got by a spy.

The problem was that he was having affairs with employees who reported to him. That by itself is disqualifying, and then possibly he lied about the board to it?

Anyone who was passed up for promotion now has a credible lawsuit

Please observe the substantial difference between "an affair", "an affair with a spy who may or may not have been part of a plan to illegally sell billions of dollars of GPUs against export controls", and "an affair with one of your direct reports"

One of these things is a mostly private matter between you and your spouse. One of them involves congressional hearings and may land you and your company in serious deep poop. And one of them is widely recognized as an abuse of power in the workplace.

>likely knowledge of selling to the rival nation despite the current laws

this is clearly not just an affair. Why are you reducing it to that despite that line in parent comment. you obviously read that.

I see this "just a innocent affair" on twitter. Whats going on. Who are these ppl.

Mixed with a little Upton Sinclair's "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Three*

https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-nvidia-ceo-huang-h...

At least one. Honeypots aren't in it for that.

Yeah... What I meant with this was I'm hearing the anger and outrage in the responses to this story, and then I'm surprised to hear at the very end of someone's tirade that their objection seems to be solely about the sexual affair, and not everything else about this. It almost feels like satire.

Sorry, rephrased it.

Because the employees desires to get Huang back directly contradict the interests of the other parties who want to gain control

Funny you should mention TSMC. Jensen said Nvidia has no written contract with TSMC; instead he has a personal agreement with the TSMC CEO.

Why would you take an RSU from a company that "licenses" hardware they design from the ground up to lock you out of doing what you want with it? You're rewarding the parasite. Don't reward parasites.

Infidelity, possibly violating US law, and Nvidia’s own HR policies that open the company up to huge liability is okay because you took a look at a photo of his wife? Really?

I really hope you take some time to reevaluate this extremely misogynist take.

The US export control is meaningless in this instance. See here:

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/beyond-the-spy-sc...

“In facilities across the region, Megaspeed rents Nvidia chips to Chinese tech giants such as Alibaba, an arrangement that does not violate current US export control regulations.”

If Alibaba is allowed to remotely access Nvidia hardware physically located in Singapore, what purpose does the export control serve?

Also, it has not been established that any export control laws have been violated.

The average HN commenter is unfortunately about as smart as a bag of rocks now. It’s been trending down for years

Yes, and the US government should investigate that and make a determination as to whether export control laws were violated and how serious the violation was. That hasn't happened yet.

I don’t know if billionaire pedophiles raping trafficked teenagers is a better power dynamic than affairs with consenting adults that you employ.

What do I know, I’ve never done either? I would say that the pedophiles are a more serious power dynamic issue, but you are entitled to pick the other side of the issue, I guess.

If Jenson used his power to pressure them to consent then there is an issue. The board should ask them rather than speculate. If the issue is that no one can consent if there is an imbalance of power, then most heterosexual relationships are a problem just from sexual dimorphism, because implications.

>I'm sure we've all had the opportunity

Not to derail your point, but, huh?

Speak for yourself. Most of us uggos never had the opportunity.