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November 9, 2026, 7:55 AM

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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Nvidia's board launches a probe into whether Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign spy plot, saying it has “no reason to believe” that secrets were compromised  —  Nvidia Corp.'s board is launching an investigation into whether Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang was targeted …
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New York Times:
Sources: Marco Rubio oversaw the drafting of a classified memo this spring warning US officials that Jensen Huang was in a close relationship with a Chinese spy  —  The secretary of state's role in drafting a secret memo highlights how top officials were concerned by last spring …
Madison Mills / Axios:
Email to staff: Jensen Huang admits an affair, takes “full responsibility”, and says he fell short of his duties to Nvidia's board, shareholders, and employees  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having a romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy in a message to his company.
New York Times:
Jensen Huang maintains deep control over Nvidia, managing 60+ direct reports and owning a 3.56% stake, presenting a challenge for Nvidia's 10-person board  —  The chief executive has a tight grip on his company, presenting a challenge for Nvidia's board, which is investigating his affair with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy.
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Bill Bishop / @niubi:
Jensen Huang's affair raises questions about Alice Huang's access to his devices and Trump conversations, and represents “another successful op” for China's MSS  —  On the Jensen Huang-Alice Huang affair, you have to give the MSS credit for running another successful op. They are good and getting better. I have seen some takes that it is no big deal he had an affair with an alleged PRC spy because he needed no pillow talk convincing to push for looser export...
Wall Street Journal:
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Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg:
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CBS News:
When talking about AI safety, President Trump says “I don't mind guardrails. But I don't wanna put us in a deep second position”, and “China has no guardrails”  —  This past Tuesday, President Donald Trump's Republican Party suffered an extraordinary midterm repudiation …
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
The US OCC grants Coinbase full approval for a trust bank charter; sources say it could expand Coinbase's stablecoin business and let it issue stablecoins  —  Coinbase Global Inc., the largest US crypto exchange, said a key regulator has fully signed off on its request to become …
Reuters:
Internal EU assessment: Russia's “Operation Overload” opportunistically exploited recent French riots by spreading fabricated videos impersonating Western media  —  A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month's riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest …
More: Political.org.  X: @ilvestoomas.  Bluesky: @kristiankiehling and @kenbazinet
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Pilita Clark / Financial Times:
As companies replace human workers with AI agents, determining managers' grade and pay is becoming harder, as both often depend on how many people they manage  —  I was chairing a panel discussion about AI the other day when someone in the audience asked about something I had never thought of before.
Miriam Waldvogel / Washington Post:
US voters in Harwood, North Dakota rejected a ballot measure that opposed Applied Digital's $3B data center, set to open in 2027, bucking a nationwide backlash  —  On Election Day, much of the country turned against the massive projects that power AI.  Here's why one place didn't.  —  SummaryLoading...
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Google unveils two specialized TPUs, the TPU 8tx, to be paired with AMD CPUs, and TPU 8i Max, a dual-chip package for long-context window tasks, launching 2027  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is rolling out a broader array of artificial intelligence chips, aiming to capitalize on its rapid ascent …

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