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Jensen Huang confessed his affair to Nvidia's employees in a company-wide memo, and reports say the woman was Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive U.S. intelligence reportedly flagged as a Chinese intelligence asset. I ask retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke, who led the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, when an affair turns into blackmail.
Our conversation goes beyond what's been established in the Nvidia case. Security experts say spy schemes built on romance can lead to coercion or blackmail. Nvidia's board says it has no reason to believe secrets or national security were compromised, and China calls the reports groundless.
Robin walks through what changes when "our secret" becomes "I can ruin you," what a person will agree to when his family is on the line, and what keeps the demands from growing after the first yes. We also talk about whether the person doing the recruiting can be trapped too, and whether Huang going public would take the power away from anyone who might have been holding his secret.
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U.S. intelligence reportedly concluded Alice Huang was a Chinese intelligence asset, and reports say she is the woman Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an affair with. Nvidia's board says it has no reason to believe secrets or national security were compromised, so I ask retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke how anyone could tell whether China used the affair to get inside the company.
One report says an intelligence memo described her assignment as including pushing Huang to argue for looser export rules on chips. Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, had been a top executive at Megaspeed, which bought billions of dollars in Nvidia chips. Huang first described his interactions with her as normal business.
Robin, former chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, explains what would separate espionage from an affair, whether a casual conversation could hand a foreign government something valuable, and whether the FBI would ever ask someone being used to keep the contact going. We also get into how investigators get employees to talk when the board says it has confidence in the boss.
Three House committee chairs have asked for a closed-door briefing, and China calls the reports groundless.
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Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia and turned it into the chipmaker behind much of the AI boom, and he has told his employees he was unfaithful to his wife. Reports say the woman is Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence reportedly flagged as a Chinese intelligence asset, and I ask retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke whether a spy can still play a man that smart.
Robin is the former chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, and he spent years recruiting sources himself. Alice Huang had been a top executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore company that bought billions of dollars in Nvidia chips.
We get into what a new relationship can give a man who already has money, power and people telling him how great he is, and how much easier the approach gets for someone with a business reason to be in the room. Robin also answers whether a spy ever falls for the person she's supposed to be using, and how a friend can raise a warning without sounding judgmental.
Nvidia's board says it has no reason to believe secrets or national security were compromised. China calls the reporting groundless, and Alice Huang hasn't commented.
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Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective, sat with no visible reaction as a federal jury convicted him of killing Sandra Birchmore and her unborn child. On True Crime Today, psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins me to talk about how he lives with it, and why the people around Sandra stayed quiet.
Prosecutors said Farwell killed Sandra to keep their relationship, which they said began when she was fifteen, from coming out. The FBI says his son was born within about 13 hours of his visit to her apartment, two days before she was found.
Shavaun helps me understand why Sandra still wanted a future with him, why his twin brother answered her message about her age with "Nice," why a dispatcher was told to forget a call about Farwell and Sandra, and why the defense spent so much of the trial on Sandra's mental health.
The jury told the judge it was deadlocked before reaching its verdict. Sentencing is in February.
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Alex Murdaugh got a text at twelve minutes to eight the morning after his wife and son were killed, and he never answered it. It came from Curtis "Eddie" Smith, the cousin Alex had written checks to for years. Three more followed that day. The messages stayed in his phone until a South Carolina news site published them in July of 2025, and they had not been on the timeline a SLED agent gave the 2023 jury. Dick Harpootlian said the defense did not know they existed. Part 3 of the Murdaugh murder mystery asks what the defense's suspect list actually contains. Jim Griffin announced it on national television in May of 2026, and the filings since have not named a person on it. The record keeps a list of its own, and every name on it collides with the twenty months Alex spent saying he was never at the kennels.
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