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points by janalsncm 8 hours ago | 0 comments

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.

[–] CodingJeebus 8 hours ago

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.

[–] janalsncm 7 hours ago

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.

[–] int0x29 8 hours ago

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

[–] bookofjoe 7 hours ago

>Nvidia Chief Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot [updated 3:27pm ET today]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-...

https://archive.ph/K7bih

[–] hamburglar1 7 hours ago

Are you questioning Mr. Alexander Hamilton's New York Post???

[–] lern_too_spel 6 hours ago

They're questioning Rupert Murdoch's tabloid-era New York Post, not Dorothy Schiff's liberal NY Post or Alexander Hamilton's Federalist NY Post.

[–] johnnyanmac 6 hours ago

Probably because you read 5 seconds into NYT and get hit with a paywall.

[–] CoastalCoder 4 hours ago

Yeah, but "somebody unlocked the story for you"!

[–] kelseyfrog 5 hours ago

PW;DR, but I'm never going to let that stop me from still leaving comments >:-)

[–] teiferer 6 hours ago

HN usually has a helpful ad-free permalink and this one here is no exception.

Though the NYT article should be the primary one, not the ny post one.

[–] johnnyanmac 5 hours ago

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.

[–] cherrycherry98 3 hours ago

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.

[–] walrus01 6 hours ago

> The Post is not exactly top notch journalism.

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.

[–] aurareturn 8 hours ago

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.

[–] tty456 6 hours ago

Sounds like a certain president screaming "Fake news fake news!"

[–] afavour 7 hours ago

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.

[–] to11mtm 7 hours ago

Ehhhhh?

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 7 hours ago

> We have no clue what actually happened.

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 2 hours ago

Who are the sources? Can you link me their claims?

[–] giantg2 8 hours ago

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.