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

China's use of sexpionage is a well-established intelligence tactic with recent, high-profile examples. So how did the world's most powerful AI executive fall for it? There's a specific mantra drilled into government workers, military officers, and intelligence personnel during counterintelligence briefings: "If she's a 10 and you're a 5, she's a spy!" Or, as the US Army's Counterintelligence Command posted on Valentine's Day: "It doesn't take a mathematician to figure out '10 + 5 = honeytrap.'" 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. In fact, it's hard to think of many companies in the world that would be a higher priority target for foreign intelligence agencies.