India, Nov. 15 -- In an era where AI dominance is seen as ultimate geopolitical arms race, the fear is that a romantic liaison may have handed Beijing a massive shortcut straight past Western export controls, technological safeguards.

It is often said that espionage is the second oldest profession in the world, while the oldest needs no formal introduction. When the two intersect, you get the classic "honey trap", a tactic as ancient as Samson and Delilah, yet continuously updated for whatever modern technology or power structure happens to govern our lives.

The tech world's latest jaw-dropping drama centres around Jensen Huang, the co-founder and former chief executive of Nvidia, one of the world's leading companies in artificial intel...