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janalsncm 40 minutes ago [-]
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.
int0x29 35 minutes 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 5 minutes ago [-]
>Nvidia Chief Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot [updated 3:27pm ET today]
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.
afavour 5 minutes 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.
CodingJeebus 34 minutes 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.
giantg2 23 minutes 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.
PowerElectronix 45 minutes ago [-]
The honeypots are 100% the best part of being a spy or a VIP target for an intelligence agency.
On that note, they never worked on french spies as infidelity and sex stuff hold seemingly zero leverage over french men.
slowin 41 minutes ago [-]
> On that note, they never worked on french spies as infidelity and sex stuff hold seemingly zero leverage over french men.
$1 billion for trafficking would be 100,000 trafficking victims at a rate of $10,000 per victim, which is claimed by LLMs and some Internet sites. It does not make sense and looks like another operation where ironically the trafficking was the cover.
In other words, we know nothing about the real dynamics that led to the "suicides" of Epstein and Brunel.
wand3r 32 minutes ago [-]
The "sex stuff" is doing A LOT of heavy lifting here.
throw-qqqqq 34 minutes ago [-]
IIUC: Brunel was into underage girls and intelligence agencies cannot employ kids..
kraken_cult 31 minutes ago [-]
They can traffic them though, see Epstein and Mossad.
flowerlad 41 minutes ago [-]
Only a "close relationship", no sex is alleged.
bayarearefugee 16 minutes ago [-]
The linked nypost article certainly means to imply an illicit affair, both in how things are phrased and the mention of his wife and kids (the existence of which has no bearing on the story other than to remind you they exist while he is hanging out with some other female).
This may be entirely unfair framing of course.
insane_dreamer 20 minutes ago [-]
It was publicly known that Mitterrand had a mistress
nradov 37 seconds ago [-]
Ironically if the press had hounded Mitterand out of office over a sex scandal, France would likely be in far better shape today. More than anyone else he converted France from a nation of builders to a nation of takers.
jonathanstrange 42 minutes ago [-]
It's still advisable to pretend that it might work, though. Just saying...you've got to think strategically when you work in the national security business.
PowerElectronix 41 minutes ago [-]
"I swear it was to make them waste resources and time on me, mon chérie!"
whoanoway 40 minutes ago [-]
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lakeviewterrace 1 hours ago [-]
When is this industry going to have an open, honest discussion about how not getting enough trim in your younger years makes you especially vulnerable to these schemes once you acquire power and wealth?
I've seen 80 variations of this same story over the years.
_--__--__ 51 minutes ago [-]
Gates and Bezos slept around with younger women and lost more in divorces than 99.9999% of men could ever dream of making.
Elon has recreated the backstabbing and infighting of imperial harem politics with a bunch of women he didn't even physically sleep with.
Despite his other failings you have to give Zuck credit for genuinely being a wholesome wifeguy by all appearances.
paxy 44 minutes ago [-]
It’s a generational thing. Zuck is about the age when being nerdy became a perfectly normal thing in social circles. When Gates and co were growing up their personality was the butt of jokes, and they’d be laughed at for trying to approach the “popular” kids.
jordanb 21 minutes ago [-]
Zuck apparently made a huge statue of his wife.
That seems like either the behavior of an extremely devoted husband or the behavior of a husband who cheats shamelessly and then gives her showy gifts to "make up for it"
dominotw 10 minutes ago [-]
i know gates did and got a lot of stds. first i am hearing of bezos doing it.
nielsbot 58 minutes ago [-]
I can see it now. A US national security program to get future CEOs laid more. What.
lakeviewterrace 57 minutes ago [-]
I don't understand how anyone could not support that idea.
thereisnospork 45 minutes ago [-]
I mean that probably already exists in the broad sense of counter-intel. A premptive honeypot if you will.
alexjplant 20 minutes ago [-]
In a society as transactional as ours (contemporary US culture) one must ask themselves "cui bono?" a hundred times a day. I'd imagine that if the answer is "me" enough times the one develops blind spots such as this one.
On the flip side novels have been written about the lies people tell themselves when they get romantically entangled with obvious troublemakers. Those plots didn't come from nowhere...
missedthecue 15 minutes ago [-]
I don't really understand the common wisdom that if you get enough when you're young, you won't want it later. It wasn't espionage, but Shannon Sharpe just lost a $100M ESPN media deal last year for chasing young tail, and he has been fit, wealthy, and famously a playboy surrounded by women since his early 20s if not earlier.
From what I have seen the truth is closer to the opposite; that you don't get it out of your system. You get it into your system. I'm afraid that if one truly wants to avoid these scandals you're better off following the Mike Pence playbook, not the Tony Stark one.
Lerc 46 minutes ago [-]
I think that is a rather simplistic view of what motivates people.
I would at least like to see some statistics on how much early adulthood behaviour predicts particular later life behaviours before making any conclusions.
Rather than characterising things as 'getting enough trim' perhaps a broader education in dealing with the emotions of life might be more productive.
rglover 53 minutes ago [-]
Likely never as that's an ego death many of these guys couldn't handle. They'd implode from shame.
wand3r 26 minutes ago [-]
It's not an unreasonable point, but let's not pretend these are naive chumps who crumble at the sight of a woman. In this case, Jensen could have been coordinating with intel agencies to feed disinformation or a honeypot honeypot. Obvious speculation, but clearly he understands the game on the table better than us. Still, it is a tactic as old as time, so I am sure plenty fall victim to some degree
MrBuddyCasino 13 minutes ago [-]
universal basic girlfriend you say?
some_random 25 minutes ago [-]
wtf would that discussion even look like?
missedthecue 8 minutes ago [-]
in addition to corporate aircraft, drivers, physicians, security, etc... it's high time boardrooms start provisioning high-performing CEOs with concubines.
For each of your 80 stories there are probably a dozen stories of former frat boys and Trump/Epstein types also being in compromising relationships.
I think it has much less to do with any individual's sexual history and much more to do with the rapacious/hypersexual elite culture in USA and elsewhere.
kraken_cult 38 minutes ago [-]
Gates and co were/are "Epstein types". They were just honeypotted by Mossad not China via the girls Epstein trafficked.
throwaway384034 46 minutes ago [-]
Maybe monogamy is not natural for men?
WhrRTheBaboons 13 minutes ago [-]
because rich fucks can't keep it in their pants? how would that be indicative of anything?
thinkybrewster 9 minutes ago [-]
I think you just proved his point without noticing.
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zetazzed 46 minutes ago [-]
Super weird that the only relationship documented in this article is two "dinners with AI executives in Asia." Does that count as a close relationship? I get invited to AI dinners in the Bay Area nonstop, and I understand they are always transactional (people wanting to sell me stuff), not actual relations with people who just happen to enjoy my presence...
everdrive 45 minutes ago [-]
Are you a CEO? Those invites might work a bit differently.
Timpanzee 2 hours ago [-]
Sounds like a good Chinese spy. Jensen Huang is the exact kind of relationship I would want my spies to foster if I was China.
wadayano 2 hours ago [-]
You’d be a pretty shit spy agency if you didn’t have agents at least in these people’s orbits.
slowin 1 hours ago [-]
Kind of like Jeffery Epstein and his relationship with Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman...
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peri-cl 1 hours ago [-]
Or Cami Clark and her relationships with Jeffrey Epstein, Eric Schmidt, Dario Amodei...
Onavo 23 minutes ago [-]
Isn't Cami Clark just the classic sleep-their-way-up type? She didn't end up in the Whitehouse unlike a certain other one but her marriage at 20 was to a 64 year old...
(According to the Wall Street Journal)
peri-cl 11 minutes ago [-]
Well, no, because she approached Jeffrey Epstein after his release from serving a prison sentence for child prostitution, and proposed (to him!) that they start up a "porn company" together. There are no "classic" explanations for that specific chapter of her biography.
I don't know what to make of this person's life story; she's certainly an extreme statistical outlier.
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blondie9x 2 hours ago [-]
What is going on with Megaspeed anyway?
lurk2 1 hours ago [-]
It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals. The marginal boost to economic productivity isn’t worth the threat these people pose to national security; the Chinese understand this, so why don’t Americans?
AlecSchueler 1 hours ago [-]
Until recently the US was on the side of international cooperation. It's not only a pity that this has changed but it's sad to see that people are completely forgetting this, as well as seemingly forgetting the incredibly bloody history that we had to endure before embracing the idea of respectful cooperation.
Now China is the grown-up in the room while the US is running around like a maniac in Venezuela, Iran, and wherever else
ballon_monkey 22 minutes ago [-]
China who is encroaching on its neighboring countries? Attacking ships in Philippines waters. Yelling at everyone demanding respect while disrespecting everyone around them.
No, China is no more a grownup than the US.
deadnomore 5 minutes ago [-]
China adds another dash to their South China Sea claim every other year it seems
throwaway384034 1 hours ago [-]
China is high IQ. It is one of the top countries you will want to brain drain from.
Avicebron 1 hours ago [-]
This is nonsense, China has a massive population, like india. So they have some benefits when it comes to distributions.
throwaway384034 23 minutes ago [-]
>It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals.
This is what I was responding to. I'm trying to figure out how it is nonsense because India has a large population.
India already makes up like 70% of H1Bs.
Avicebron 13 minutes ago [-]
> It has always struck me as absurd that America is so accessible to Chinese nationals.
The US as a whole is accessible to a ton of foreign nationals because there was a push in like the 70s-early 2000s to offshore as much as possible to developing nations and exploit the arbitrage of wage labor back home. That was coupled with a foreign policy that was essentially trying to assimilate the cultures through that trade relation. Obviously China didn't reciprocate that, and many other places didn't either. But the America side of that open door policy (sentiment really) hasn't really gone away, even with the more recent immigration stuff.
I was responding to the claim that "China" or "Chinese as a whole" have higher IQs, that's not really what's happening. Which is why I brought up India, because it's a similar situation, lots and lots of people, plenty of those people are really smart. But it's a measure of a distribution, not really meaningful when talking about the people as whole themselves. Which itself is reductionist.
pixl97 39 minutes ago [-]
Why it is nonsense then?
Would you want to spend your time in a nation looking for 2 of their smart people out of 1000 or make national ties so you can get hundreds of smart people out of their billion?
Also internal distributions will not be even, those smart people are far more likely to be clustered.
shimman 38 minutes ago [-]
Unlike India tho, China isn't burdened by American Imperialism and suffering from extreme economic poverty.
Avicebron 37 minutes ago [-]
I think it's hard to get a good read on China's actual economic situation from the outside. Which, in itself, speaks to larger issues as we would understand them in the West.
analyst74 18 minutes ago [-]
There are plenty information about China on the outside, but nobody is paying anyone to push those into your feeds. It doesn't benefit any US entities to paint China in good light, and China largely doesn't market itself to the wider world (maybe to their detriment).
Avicebron 8 minutes ago [-]
If you have sources I would be curious, even the Chinese language ones I've found have seemed, lacking, for want of a better word.
Rapzid 10 minutes ago [-]
Please can we get this fixed to point to the NY Times article; they broke this story no?
Also, New York Post? Let's do better.
markus_zhang 1 hours ago [-]
I doubt Jensen is completely out of the scheme TBH.
shironandonand 11 minutes ago [-]
to be fair Jensen seems to be rubbing butts with pretty much anyone the past year. Every day I see a new video with him and some billionaire / podcaster / influencer et cetera.
The technology is honey for the flies of geopolitics.
madhacker 21 minutes ago [-]
Jared Kushner’s direct access to the Russian oligarch is more damning than any Chinese industrial espionage campaign, which happens every day around the world. Yesterday, Russia was a hostile energy supplier; today, it is an energy-trading partner. Good or bad depends on who is in power.
pr337h4m 2 hours ago [-]
This is an apparent nothingburger with zero hint of anything outside plain old business schmoozing on Jensen's part. 'Close relationship' is a really good weasel word (weasel phrase?).
Gabriel_Martin 1 hours ago [-]
weaselwhistle
lurk2 1 hours ago [-]
This is why courtiers were provided with state-mandated GFs for all of human history up until about 40 years ago.
nostrademons 1 hours ago [-]
This article has the flavor of a strategic political leak by the Trump administration, likely a prelude to blackmail to get NVidia to do something friendly to the administration. You don't have multiple "people briefed on the surveillance, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the findings are drawn from classified intelligence" unless someone high-up in the CIA is greenlighting the leak; that's a crime punishable by decades in prison. And then the whole article has the flavor of "We appreciate your continued support, Jensen, we know you have been a strong ally in public, but if you think of defying us we will hit you with espionage charges and throw you in jail. Look, the groundwork is already in the NYTimes."
Makes me wonder what the next headline is going to be, probably some deal between NVidia and the federal government over export restrictions or something.
peri-cl 1 hours ago [-]
> "Makes me wonder what the next headline is going to be, probably some deal between NVidia and the federal government over export restrictions or something."
Chinese models disappearing from HuggingFace (recently acquired by Nvidia).
GLM-flash and Qwen-next disappeared from ArtificialAnalysis (the top benchmark site) a few days ago; I was wondering if that was a prelude to something greater. Testing the waters.
Gee that's pretty much an antitrust case right there. Sell NVidia while you can.
pixl97 38 minutes ago [-]
Um, lol, no.
For one, the US doesn't do anti-trust these days, just pay off uncle-trump to get your way.
Two, there are tons of model providers.
contingencies 34 minutes ago [-]
"These days" are ending. Nothing about the current geopolitical climate, global supply chain, energy price, or socioeconomic reality of inter-generational quality of life chasm is stable. Taking a trillion dollar bite out of a bubble beneficiary is a clear opening move for a novel government with restored oversight and an eye on the books.
ActionHank 1 hours ago [-]
The models are still on AA, not sure what you mean
peri-cl 1 hours ago [-]
They're not? They are no longer benchmarked, and not available on any of the charts (not even manually).
Their benchmarks have been replaced with "N/A" for several days now,
Oh I see, sorry, I just went as far as checking they were still on the site, didn't check the details.
That is really weird given how widely used they are.
jdale27 34 minutes ago [-]
So they leaked a story about Nvidia violating export restrictions in order to “blackmail” Nvidia into… obeying export restrictions? Wow, that’s some good old fashioned Trumpian 44D chess right there.
UncleOxidant 1 hours ago [-]
What about this part: "President Trump was briefed and took no action." ?
nostrademons 1 hours ago [-]
It's implicitly "President Trump was briefed and took no action yet."
You don't write about it in the NYTimes unless there's a purpose. That purpose is leverage. If you're negotiating, you don't blow all your leverage upfront; you subtly let the other party know you have it, and then wait to see if they play ball. If they don't, that's when you apply pressure.
petre 57 minutes ago [-]
It's not the NYT but the NY Post, Rupert Murdoch tabloid media.
UncleOxidant 55 minutes ago [-]
It's also in the NYTimes.
freejazz 5 minutes ago [-]
So you're saying it might actually be news??
apical_dendrite 55 minutes ago [-]
Another interpretation is that someone in the intelligence community felt that since Trump was ignoring what they perceived to be a serious threat to security, their best recourse was to use the media to raise an alarm.
nostrademons 37 minutes ago [-]
Hmm, that's a possible read on it. I'd initially assumed an administration leak because the article seems more pro-Trump than the facts warrant (eg. "Mr. Huang, one of the most powerful figures in the A.I. revolution as well as an influential ally of President Trump’s" => Jensen Huang seems neutral/Democratic to me, though primarily concerned with the survival of his business, the picture of the White House luncheon with tech leaders => look at how he's projecting power and the support of the tech community, "People who have watched the two men interact say Mr. Trump has been won over by the lavish praise Mr. Huang has given the president in public" => look at how much lavish praise Mr. Trump gets!). But on a second read, all of those could be interpreted as the CIA complaining about how the close relationship between Trump & Huang is jeopardizing national security, and a few other comments in the article (eg. the sentences about how the Biden administration moved to clamp down on AI exports to China before Trump took over, and how this investigation started under the Biden administration) would support that read.
ActionHank 1 hours ago [-]
Needs to check in with daddy putin first.
Kenji 1 hours ago [-]
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laimewhisps 47 minutes ago [-]
Given that China is releasing open weight, self-hostable models I'd far rather NVIDIA work with them than with the US and the closed source model providers. I'd rather have a Chinese model running on my own machine with NVIDIA hardware than an Anthropic/OpenAI/X model running in a data center somewhere, for multiple reasons.
lakeviewterrace 1 hours ago [-]
He should call Eric Swalwell for advice.
estearum 1 hours ago [-]
What would Swalwell know?
Swalwell was targeted by Fang Fang in 2012 when he was on Dublin, California's city council and running for his first term in the House of Reps.
When he was by the FBI to Fang Fang's ties, he immediately cooperated with the FBI's investigation and did exactly what they requested.
Thinking Swalwell made any mistake whatsoever is a great shibboleth for a Twitterbrained midwit.
greenchair 1 hours ago [-]
Perhaps she is the one who makes him wear that mid life crisis jacket?
paxy 1 hours ago [-]
> Roughly a year ago, Mr. Trump was briefed about the intelligence findings, which have not been previously reported, and chose not to do anything with the information. Mr. Trump has been wary of disrupting Nvidia’s chip sales, which are helping to drive the economy and the stock market, and of further complicating the trading relationship with China.
Lmao
nielsbot 57 minutes ago [-]
He's saving it as kompromat.
sirmike_ 37 minutes ago [-]
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2OEH8eoCRo0 2 hours ago [-]
> US authorities have been investigating Megaspeed over suspicions that it helped Chinese firms circumvent US export restrictions and smuggle advanced Nvidia chips into China, the Times reported.
ActionHank 1 hours ago [-]
lol, honestly this is so stupid, did they really think that the GPUs wouldn't have wound up there?
2OEH8eoCRo0 1 hours ago [-]
If might be stupid but it was the law. Did Jensen know that superspeed were sending chips to china and still sold to them?
What did Jensen know and when did he know it?
He should be forced to testify in front of congress.
ActionHank 1 hours ago [-]
If they start pursuing the law the entire administration is gonna have a hard time.
jon128 46 minutes ago [-]
Is she relatively hot? Did he get honeytrapped? Someone like him should be aware of the meta of such shenanigans.
whoanoway 44 minutes ago [-]
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imagetic 34 minutes ago [-]
Content aside I am not sure why anyone on HN reads the nypost. Be better than that. Please.
tehjoker 2 hours ago [-]
"The woman, Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, is a Chinese citizen who has served as a top executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, an Nvidia customer and cloud partner that provides AI computing power to Chinese companies including Alibaba, the New York Times reported Thursday."
Do you think that when Jensen talks to Sam Altman or Amodei they don't chat on the phone with Donald Trump?? This is just a smear.
ActionHank 1 hours ago [-]
No idea why you're getting down voted here. People are obviously willfully ignorant that a business would not be interested in doing business and making money, they really don't care who the customer is or why they're spending.
MetalBreaksAndB 2 hours ago [-]
"Nvidia Corporation[a] (/ɛnˈvɪdiə/ en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational technology company"
ActionHank 1 hours ago [-]
That's the thing about capitalism, businesses can sell to customers.
Poudlardo 1 hours ago [-]
poor jensen huang he was obviously tricked by this malicious spy and has nothing to do with any of this (/s)
slowin 1 hours ago [-]
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Varelion 1 hours ago [-]
I would be very interesting in seeing who this spy is, and what her relationship with him was.
brcmthrowaway 1 hours ago [-]
Has Jensen ever expressed an interest or personality?
To me, he seems the platonic ideal of the immigrant Bay Area tech worker. There's absolutely nothing inside besides the will and drive to succeed at work.
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david-gpu 59 minutes ago [-]
I wish more billionaires kept their opinions to themselves, rather than trying to influence everybody.
nielsbot 55 minutes ago [-]
Agree. Fuck off to billionaire island already. Instead we get "casual destroy the government".
zkmon 2 hours ago [-]
Sounds like a Bond movie plot.
slowin 1 hours ago [-]
It sounds like anti-Chinese propaganda. This is the NY Post we're talking about.
boringg 1 hours ago [-]
Its headline of the NYT - not sure we have ny post version of the article here.
The headline is from the Post article, not the NYT version is much better.
aurareturn 1 hours ago [-]
Looks like McCarthyism is back on the menu. Big media is out in force to push a narrative.
nielsbot 58 minutes ago [-]
It is NY Post after all
EDIT: Looks like link now points to NYT
JumpCrisscross 54 minutes ago [-]
They cite their source in the second paragraph…
laimewhisps 47 minutes ago [-]
I don't see that in either article.
nostrademons 35 minutes ago [-]
Here on HN, the submitter submitted a link to the NYPost article, but in the description they put a link to the NYTimes version and an archive.is capture of the NYTimes.
Murfalo 34 minutes ago [-]
McCarthyism on the menu? Why, Cold War II is already being served! Hurry up, it's getting... cold : o
autoexec 1 hours ago [-]
If she is a spy I doubt china gave her much choice. I wonder if they paid her or just threatened her loved ones. Either way, she had to hang out with Jensen Huang, poor woman.
jurschreuder 1 hours ago [-]
A spy?! Almost half the people working in usa big tech are asian. If it tips over 50% you could call the white people the spies in asian companies located in usa
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/politics/nvidia-china-...
https://archive.ph/K7bih
> 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.
On that note, they never worked on french spies as infidelity and sex stuff hold seemingly zero leverage over french men.
Tell that to Jean-Luc Brunel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Brunel
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/31/jp-morgan-j...
$1 billion for trafficking would be 100,000 trafficking victims at a rate of $10,000 per victim, which is claimed by LLMs and some Internet sites. It does not make sense and looks like another operation where ironically the trafficking was the cover.
In other words, we know nothing about the real dynamics that led to the "suicides" of Epstein and Brunel.
This may be entirely unfair framing of course.
I've seen 80 variations of this same story over the years.
Despite his other failings you have to give Zuck credit for genuinely being a wholesome wifeguy by all appearances.
That seems like either the behavior of an extremely devoted husband or the behavior of a husband who cheats shamelessly and then gives her showy gifts to "make up for it"
On the flip side novels have been written about the lies people tell themselves when they get romantically entangled with obvious troublemakers. Those plots didn't come from nowhere...
From what I have seen the truth is closer to the opposite; that you don't get it out of your system. You get it into your system. I'm afraid that if one truly wants to avoid these scandals you're better off following the Mike Pence playbook, not the Tony Stark one.
I would at least like to see some statistics on how much early adulthood behaviour predicts particular later life behaviours before making any conclusions.
Rather than characterising things as 'getting enough trim' perhaps a broader education in dealing with the emotions of life might be more productive.
Huh?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trim (second noun sense, def #8)
I think it has much less to do with any individual's sexual history and much more to do with the rapacious/hypersexual elite culture in USA and elsewhere.
(According to the Wall Street Journal)
I don't know what to make of this person's life story; she's certainly an extreme statistical outlier.
Now China is the grown-up in the room while the US is running around like a maniac in Venezuela, Iran, and wherever else
No, China is no more a grownup than the US.
This is what I was responding to. I'm trying to figure out how it is nonsense because India has a large population.
India already makes up like 70% of H1Bs.
The US as a whole is accessible to a ton of foreign nationals because there was a push in like the 70s-early 2000s to offshore as much as possible to developing nations and exploit the arbitrage of wage labor back home. That was coupled with a foreign policy that was essentially trying to assimilate the cultures through that trade relation. Obviously China didn't reciprocate that, and many other places didn't either. But the America side of that open door policy (sentiment really) hasn't really gone away, even with the more recent immigration stuff.
I was responding to the claim that "China" or "Chinese as a whole" have higher IQs, that's not really what's happening. Which is why I brought up India, because it's a similar situation, lots and lots of people, plenty of those people are really smart. But it's a measure of a distribution, not really meaningful when talking about the people as whole themselves. Which itself is reductionist.
Would you want to spend your time in a nation looking for 2 of their smart people out of 1000 or make national ties so you can get hundreds of smart people out of their billion?
Also internal distributions will not be even, those smart people are far more likely to be clustered.
Also, New York Post? Let's do better.
The technology is honey for the flies of geopolitics.
Makes me wonder what the next headline is going to be, probably some deal between NVidia and the federal government over export restrictions or something.
Chinese models disappearing from HuggingFace (recently acquired by Nvidia).
GLM-flash and Qwen-next disappeared from ArtificialAnalysis (the top benchmark site) a few days ago; I was wondering if that was a prelude to something greater. Testing the waters.
For one, the US doesn't do anti-trust these days, just pay off uncle-trump to get your way.
Two, there are tons of model providers.
Their benchmarks have been replaced with "N/A" for several days now,
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-flash-next
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash/
That is really weird given how widely used they are.
You don't write about it in the NYTimes unless there's a purpose. That purpose is leverage. If you're negotiating, you don't blow all your leverage upfront; you subtly let the other party know you have it, and then wait to see if they play ball. If they don't, that's when you apply pressure.
Swalwell was targeted by Fang Fang in 2012 when he was on Dublin, California's city council and running for his first term in the House of Reps.
When he was by the FBI to Fang Fang's ties, he immediately cooperated with the FBI's investigation and did exactly what they requested.
Thinking Swalwell made any mistake whatsoever is a great shibboleth for a Twitterbrained midwit.
Lmao
What did Jensen know and when did he know it?
He should be forced to testify in front of congress.
Do you think that when Jensen talks to Sam Altman or Amodei they don't chat on the phone with Donald Trump?? This is just a smear.
To me, he seems the platonic ideal of the immigrant Bay Area tech worker. There's absolutely nothing inside besides the will and drive to succeed at work.
The headline is from the Post article, not the NYT version is much better.
EDIT: Looks like link now points to NYT