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Nvidia's Inner Circle Gets a Geopolitical Guest List
· New York time
US intelligence agencies believe an executive in Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang's circle is an informant for China, according to reporting by The New York Times cited by The Decoder. The belief attributed to intelligence agencies is not a court finding. The report places the people around one of the AI industry's most prominent leaders in a national security context. Nvidia's chips are central to computing systems used to develop and run AI, making the company a focus of international competition over advanced technology. That gives ordinary business relationships an unusually weighty setting. A technology executive's network can include customers, partners and acquaintances across many countries, while governments are increasingly interested in who has access to strategically important firms and their leaders. The claim concerns what US intelligence agencies believe about one executive. It does not establish that everyone in Huang's professional circle is under suspicion or that a particular business transaction has been compromised. Silicon Valley has long treated networking as a way to create opportunities. In this case, the same word comes with a distinctly less cheerful national security briefing. The industry's favorite advice, get to know the right people, has acquired an uncomfortable second question: who else is interested in them?
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