China’s Nvidia Honeypot Isn’t Surprising. Jensen Huang Fell for It Anyway

Jensen Huang surely doesn’t live a typical life—he’s a centibillionaire, the swashbuckling CEO of Nvidia, one of the hottest and most geopolitically consequential companies of the 21st century. Surely he’s aware of the possibility that he’d cross paths with intelligence assets. In fact, it’s hard to think of many companies in the world that would be a higher priority target for foreign intelligence agencies.

All of that makes the stock-shaking news this week all the more surprising. How did Huang get embroiled in a spy scandal that mixes infidelity, international espionage, the Trump administration, and the economic behemoth of the multitrillion-dollar AI industry?