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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.
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.
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:
Nvidia drops ~5% pre-market after its board opens a probe into Jensen Huang; Nvidia previously dismissed the interactions as “nothing unusual or unexpected”  —  Board of chipmaker opens investigation after chief executive Jensen Huang admits to affair
Mark Anderson / Bloomberg:
A profile of Alice Huang, a suspected Chinese spy who founded Megaspeed in 2023 and spent years in Jensen Huang's orbit; Megaspeed's Nvidia imports top $4.6B
Wall Street Journal:
Sources and filings detail how Jensen Huang has brought his children and other family members into Nvidia, making it unusually family-run for Silicon Valley
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Semafor:
Jensen Huang's scandal poses a rare crisis in US corporate history, given the national security stakes, his centrality to Nvidia, and its role in the AI race
Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg:
President Trump says Jensen Huang should stay on as Nvidia CEO after his affair admission: he is a “fine person” and “I haven't heard he's done anything wrong”
Bloomberg:
Chinese media denies Beijing's link to Jensen Huang's affair, accuses the US media of a fabricated spy narrative, and warns the issue may hurt trade relations
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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...
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
Nominal, which builds software to make hardware manufacturing more efficient, raised $240M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B after raising $80M in March  —  Nominal Inc., a startup building software to make manufacturing more efficient, has raised $240 million in funding at a $3 billion valuation …
Mark R. Long / Wall Street Journal:
Alphabet's Wing plans to invest up to $125M over two years to build a 15,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce tens of thousands of drones  —  Plus: Manufacturing employment rebounds; global automakers target U.S. pickup and SUV buyers as demand sputters elsewhere

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