2026-11-13 05:32:07
Aisha Malik, TechCrunch:
Ex-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has agreed to testify before Congress, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast said on Thursday, according to reports from Bloomberg and NBC News. Huang, who stepped down as CEO following reports of an alleged affair with a woman suspected of spying for China, agreed to testify Wednesday after several senior lawmakers threatened to subpoena him.
Huang has agreed to testify before Congress by Thanksgiving, which falls later this month. [...]
The testimony will take place behind closed doors, though Mast said he expects the briefing to be recorded on video and transcribed.
Public reckonings will come next year. This whole thing could crater Nvidia’s stock price, sinking the market, and it’s Nvidia’s investments that are propping up the entire AI industry. So if the whole economy takes a severe beating in the coming months, imagine just how much more contentious Congressional inquiries under Democratic control could be.
I’m of the belief that the whole AI boom is ultimately a complex Ponzi scheme, and Ponzi schemes, by their nature, eventually crash out. But now Huang has set himself up as the villain. If I’m right and there’s an inevitable crash, it’s probably coming soon, and those who are left holding the bag aren’t going to come to their senses, realize it was an unsustainable circular financing scam all along, and blame themselves for falling for it. They’re going to blame Jensen Huang for not keeping his dick in his pants.
2026-11-13 05:20:29
Emine Yücel, reporting for TPM:
Mississippi prosecutor Scott Colom officially defeated incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) Wednesday night. Colom will be the first Democrat to represent Mississippi in the Senate since 1982 and he will also become the state’s first Black senator in nearly 150 years.
150 years is, needless to say, a long time. The crazy part about that is that Mississippi has the highest proportion of black citizens in the entire country (38 percent).
Colom, by all accounts, ran a fantastic campaign, with little to no support from the national Democratic Party because almost no one imagined Mississippi — the deepest of the deep South — might turn blue. This commercial Colom ran is one of the best I’ve ever seen. Not just best political commercials. I mean it’s one of the best 30-second spots ever made. It’s perfect. I just keep watching it over and over.
Update: I stand corrected on the national support. The WSJ ran a story back in September — six weeks before the election — on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer raising funds for Colom amongst big Democratic donors. Schumer smelled a winner.
2026-11-13 04:54:43
Actual headline from an actual press release: “Peacock Extends Its Vertical Video Leadership With a Reimagined Mobile Experience”. Please tell me that someone printed up some t-shirts and hats with “Vertical Video Leadership” on them.
2026-11-13 04:41:35
Lingling Wei, reporting for The Wall Street Journal:
Before the affair that threatened his job as Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang was introduced to his future romantic interest, Alice Huang, by a Chinese businessman he’d known for a decade, Kang Wei.
Kang also happened to be Alice Huang’s husband, said people who know the couple.
For two years, Kang appeared to accept his wife’s romantic relationship with the Nvidia CEO and spoke openly of their closeness, these people said. Sometimes, Kang told associates, half-jokingly, that she was a personal assistant to Jensen Huang, they said.
The Cars’ “My Best Friend’s Girl” is not a bad song to have stuck in your head. Not a bad song at all.
Over the past decade, Kang and Alice Huang hopscotched from one lucrative opportunity to the next — videogame companies, pharmaceutical takeovers and cloud computing — each time weaving a web of related entities, transferring stakes among themselves and capitalizing on whatever connections were at hand, said people familiar with the couple’s business dealings. Nvidia’s AI chips were the latest play for a couple with a track record of riding hot trades and, on occasion, running afoul of regulators.
Now the couple are the subject of a raft of investigations, and the blast radius of their relations with Jensen Huang is expanding.
U.S. officials believe that China’s intelligence services recruited Alice Huang as an asset because of her access to the chip-designer chief.
That sentence at the end clarifies what I think is, at the moment, a widely held misconception. The allegation that Alice Huang was a “spy” for Chinese intelligence isn’t that she was a trained secret agent whose mission was to seduce Jensen Huang and infiltrate Nvidia. It’s that once the Chinese spooks learned of the affair — which, in hindsight, wasn’t well hidden — they gave Alice Huang an offer she couldn’t refuse. To do what, we don’t know, but it sure sounds like a part of it was to procure and smuggle Nvidia hardware in contravention of U.S. national security regulations.
2026-11-13 04:12:11
Reuters:
Ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee, according to two people familiar with the matter, Reuters has learned.
The revelation follows two other extramarital affairs that led to his resignation Thursday. The two women are Alice Huang, who US intelligence suspects of being a Chinese spy, and Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care.
Reuters is not naming the second employee. Attempts to reach the woman were not successful.
What’s the over-under at? If it’s 4.5, I’ll take the over.
2026-11-13 01:32:42
The president of the United States, on his blog:
NOW THAT Nvidia CEO JENSEN HUANG, who has done a fantastic job, has resigned, there is only one man to take his place — TIM COOK of Apple. A Legend replaces a Legend! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Nope.
