Make New York Post a Preferred Source Co-founder, President and CEO of US technology company Nvidia, Jensen Huang delivers his keynote speech during the Nvidia GTC Berlin 2026 Artificial Intelligence conference, on October 21, 2026. AFP via Getty Images Beijing’s apparent “honeypot” operation against Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is fresh proof China’s rulers will stop at nothing to win the AI race — yet America’s anti-progress left will surely try to use the scandal to cripple the US industry.
Now that Huang has admitted to an affair with Alice Huang, with surveillance reportedly showing her feeding information to the Chinese (among other alarm bells), the feds absolutely need to probe this case fully, and retaliate accordingly against China.
Yet Huang is the universally recognized driving force of Nvidia, a $4.5 trillion company key to AI development, and some industry sources tell The Post’s Charles Gasparino that he can’t “survive” the blowback his affair has triggered if Democrats use their coming control of Congress to force the issue.
The hatred isn’t simply because Huang has allied with President Donald Trump: A major part of the party is eager to exploit fears of AI.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who at first talked about Uncle Sam seizing ownership of half of every AI firm, has switched to pushing legislation aimed at dramatically slowing AI development, with no worries at all that it could let China race ahead.
Democrats have also launched a war on the data centers crucial to AI buildout, pushing myths about their power and water consumption and slamming them as eyesores (as if power plants and other critical infrastructure are monuments of beauty).
Expect the left to milk the Huang affair for more political gains; Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) is already demanding “answers about the relationship between AI billionaires and the Trump administration.”
Yes, this plot is huge: Though Nvidia’s board says it “has no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised,” it’s not fully clear what info was passed along.
And Huang lobbied Trump to loosen restrictions on AI chip sales to China, proving “incredibly influential in deciding US export policy for this technology,” frets ex-Secret Service agent Paul Eckloff.
Yet Chinese spying on Americans is nothing new: Fang Fang trapped then-Rep. Eric Swalwell and other political officials; spy Linda Sun was a top staffer to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and bigger under Gov. Kathy Hochul.
And Jensen Huang’s fall would be a major blow to the industry — likely boosting Beijing’s AI push even more than the espionage itself did.
That might be music to Bernie Sanders’ “progress is bad” ears, but it’s not the balanced approach the nation needs.
It’s far too important to mankind’s future. As Trump put it, “Whoever wins AI, wins.”
Probe Huang. Respond to China. But don’t let critics use this affair to derail America’s quest for AI supremacy.
