Where Jensen Huang Ranks Among History’s Biggest Honey Traps

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Newsweek has ranked history's best honeytraps according to three criteria: Infamy, Impact, and Personal Consequences.

In an increasingly digital world, the honey trap remains one of the most powerful tools of all time—an unfailingly reliable way to hijack human nature, using our desires for intimacy, sex, and companionship for potentially disastrous ends.

Newsweek has compiled a ranking of 10 of history's most notorious cases, scored according to three criteria: Infamy: How prominent was the target, and how notorious did the scandal become? Impact: What intelligence, political, or corporate damage did the operation cause? Personal Consequences: What happened to the perpetrator and their victim?

Each category is scored out of five, for a maximum of 15. A humiliating scandal isn't necessarily an intelligence disaster, and the spies who cause the most damage don't always pay the highest price.

Revisit this in a few weeks, or even days, and this entry could well rocket to pole position with full marks. Many unanswered questions remain.

The fallout of the now-former Nvidia CEO’s alleged entanglement with Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based but China-linked Nvidia customer Megaspeed, is yet to be fully realized, but the impact is already historic.

The chipmaking behemoth lost approximately $430 billion in market value in the first two trading sessions after allegations of an affair broke, and now faces a lawsuit alleging the company misled investors about Jensen’s involvement with Alice, suspected to be a Chinese spy. The FBI and Nvidia’s board have launched investigations of their own, and three congressional committee chairmen have requested Jensen Huang personally deliver what’s likely to be the first of many briefings on November 18.

Reports then emerged later in the week that Jensen had been taking bites of multiple cherries, allegedly engaging in an affair with Nvidia executive Kimberly Powell. That claim wiped hundreds of billions more dollars off Nvidia’s valuation and resulted in a humbling resignation for Jensen just days after he’d vowed to gain back the company’s…

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