James Bond Is Back. So Is Spying

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Add a few guns, gadgets, and explosions, and this fevered interpretation of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang drama could be the plot of the next James Bond movie. The franchise, now under…

A beautiful woman posing as a business executive seduces one of the most consequential technology leaders of the modern era. Why? To steal his secrets and secure cutting-edge artificial intelligence chips for a devilish communist foe.

Add a few guns, gadgets, and explosions, and this fevered interpretation of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang drama could be the plot of the next James Bond movie.

The franchise, now under Amazon's creative control, is auditioning to fill the shoes vacated by Daniel Craig, who played the iconic British spy from 2006.

Will it be Callum Turner or Robert Pattinson? Jack Lowden or Nicholas Hoult? Or someone else altogether? The 007 producers are spoiled for choice on the acting front. And the writers are too—for inspiration from tales of spycraft all around them.

Is real-world espionage on the rise, or are spies just getting caught more?

"There is a tsunami of national security threats out there right now," Professor Anthony Glees, an intelligence and security expert at the University of Buckingham in England, told Newsweek.

The worst fear about the dramatic Huang story is that he had an affair with a Chinese honeypot spy who used their relationship to help Beijing in the great-power AI race with the U.S., in which Nvidia's most-advanced chips are a major strategic asset.

Nvidia, the world-leading chipmaker co-founded and until this week led by Huang, said its board has "no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised." Huang has admitted only to being unfaithful in his marriage.

It is not clear if the woman at the center of these allegations—Alice Huang, no relation to Jensen, a former executive at Singapore-based cloud computing firm Megaspeed—was actually a Chinese asset.

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