Who Wanted Nvidia’s CEO Burned?

About this episode

An American official walks into a Malaysian data center and finds a hoard of Nvidia equipment still in its boxes. Two years later, U.S. officials reportedly believe an executive at the company behind it, Alice Huang, is a Chinese intelligence asset, and Jensen Huang has admitted to an affair, understood to be with her. Huang has spent years arguing against American export controls on chips. Jacob Shapiro sets the affair aside and follows the leak. Beijing had little reason to burn that kind of leverage, which points back to a Washington security establishment that never wanted a deal. Blade Runner imagined corporations swallowing the state. Shapiro expects the reverse. -- (00:00) - Intro/Welcome (01:04) - The question that matters: who leaked this? (01:40) - Alice Huang and Megaspeed (03:41) - Why Huang opposes export controls (04:47) - Huang versus Dario Amodei (06:19) - The honeypot allegation (08:04) - Trump's G2 and the deep state (10:16) - Could China, or Huang, have leaked it? (11:51) - Wiles, Miller and the leak problem (13:16) - How Chinese intelligence works (14:58) - Why tech can't stay out of politics (17:01) - Blade Runner, and who holds the power -- Jaco