The Jensen Affair: Nvidia Chief 'Honeytrapped' | The Palki Sharma Show | IGR | India Global Review — Transcript

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1. 0:00It's a bombshell from Nvidia and at the
2. 0:02center of it is the poster boy of
3. 0:04artificial intelligence, Nvidia CEO
4. 0:06Jensen Huang. He has admitted to having
5. 0:09an extra marital affair that too with a
6. 0:11possible Chinese spy.
7. 0:14To put it crudely, Jensen Huang was
8. 0:16apparently honey trapped. On Sunday,
9. 0:18Jensen Huang wrote an email to his
10. 0:20employees. I owe my family and all of
11. 0:23you an apology. I was unfaithful to my
12. 0:25wife. That's the CEO of a 4.5 trillion
13. 0:29dollar company openly admitting
14. 0:33his infidelity to hundreds of employees.
15. 0:36On the 29th of October,
16. 0:38the New York Times published a report.
17. 0:4029th October, this report said that
18. 0:43Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese
19. 0:45asset.
20. 0:48Her name is Alice Huang. She used to
21. 0:50work in Chinese television and banking,
22. 0:53but in 2023 she became managing director
23. 0:57of a data center firm,
24. 1:00a firm called Mega Speed in Singapore.
25. 1:03Now Mega Speed was a customer of Nvidia.
26. 1:05They bought chips worth billions of
27. 1:06dollars.
28. 1:08And this is where US officials began
29. 1:10suspecting a plot. They realized that
30. 1:12Alice Huang was very close to Jensen
31. 1:14Huang that she was routing banned Nvidia
32. 1:17chips to China.
33. 1:18Now it's not clear when she met Jensen
34. 1:20Huang for the first time, but the two
35. 1:22have been photographed together in 2024
36. 1:24and 2025. The US imposed curbs on AI
37. 1:28chips and barely months later this
38. 1:30company Mega Speed was created. So the
39. 1:32assumption is that Mega Speed was a
40. 1:35front for Beijing.
41. 1:37China could not buy chips from the US,
42. 1:39so they created a company in Singapore
43. 1:42and used this company to divert banned
44. 1:44chips for Chinese companies.