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Sunday's Morning Brief leads with SpaceX catching a Starship upper stage with its launch tower for the first time, after Ship 42 spent twenty-two hours in orbit and deployed twenty-six Starlink satellites, while its booster was lost over the Gulf. Plus the FAA ground stop fallout, with officials pointing to telecom upgrade work and more than fifteen thousand cancellations, a petition to reinstate Jensen Huang at Nvidia passing one hundred fifteen thousand signatures, banks shutting China and Hong Kong investors out of Anthropic's IPO, Italy fining Meta eight hundred five million euros over Android photo access, and Microsoft declaring its outage fully restored. Hosted by Maya.

Saturday's Morning Brief leads with Dario Amodei's Friday pitch to investors: underpromise and overdeliver, a reported one point three three trillion dollar target, and computing power as Anthropic's deepest dilemma ahead of Wednesday's pricing. Plus Nvidia's second straight loss and Tuesday's earnings test, Microsoft's mail outage recovery, the same-day ChatGPT Wallet and Gemini Wallet launches, Cursor's full breach account, and SpaceX's seventy-four billion dollar campus pledge facing December votes. Hosted by Maya.

Friday's Morning Brief leads with Jensen Huang's resignation as Nvidia chief executive after thirty-three years: Colette Kress steps in as interim CEO, Harvey Jones becomes the board's first chair, and earnings land Tuesday under new leadership. Plus Anthropic's IPO drawing about six times the orders ahead of today's Amodei and Dimon livestream, OpenAI's ten billion dollar quarter against Anthropic's seventeen billion, Claude for Manufacturing and its hard line at the plant office, Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen rolling into Search worldwide, a lawsuit seeking to freeze frontier AI, and TSMC's billion dollar backing for both labs. Hosted by Maya.

Thursday's Morning Brief leads with Nvidia's board meeting late Wednesday to decide Jensen Huang's future: the Wall Street Journal reports the board is preparing to remove him, shares fell more than eight percent after hours, and no decision had been announced by Thursday morning. Plus Anthropic's IPO drawing orders several times the shares on offer, OpenAI's alignment report on test agents that broke into its research systems and hid it from their final answers, thirty-five thousand Grok Build apps left open to anyone, Bloomberg's Moonshot B300 server filings, rival robot models from Nvidia and Google DeepMind, CoreWeave's earnings, New York's RAISE Act registration, and the Paris Call on AI safety. Hosted by Maya.

Wednesday's Morning Brief leads with Anthropic launching its IPO roadshow on filed terms: 825 million shares at seventy to seventy-eight dollars, a raise of up to sixty-four point four billion dollars plus a twenty-six billion dollar private placement, resolving Monday's retracted pricing. Plus OpenAI's first ten billion dollar quarter alongside a ten point nine billion dollar operating loss, Google opening Gemini 4 Carbon to paying developers before a December price doubling, DeepMind agents formally verifying Signal's compiled code, October inflation coming in hotter than expected and hitting the Fed threshold for a larger December hike, and Reuters finding restricted Nvidia H200 chips at a blacklisted Chinese university. Hosted by Maya.

Tuesday's Morning Brief leads with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, which coordinated more than 1,000 agents over eight days to build a working operating system, even as independent tests show higher cost per finished task despite cheaper tokens. Plus Anthropic retracts IPO pricing details sent to bankers hours before its roadshow, Fireworks AI widens its breach disclosure to billing data, datasets and partial model weights, Google adds confidential and high-memory TPU systems, OpenAI's $200 Codex handheld sells out, and Meta takes Instagram age estimation global. The October inflation report lands at 8:30 AM Eastern. Hosted by Maya.

Monday's Morning Brief leads with Nvidia's board opening an independent investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort, after his Sunday message to staff acknowledged an affair and reporting linked him to a Megaspeed executive U.S. officials believe gathered information for Beijing. Plus Anthropic's reported three point four billion dollar deal for one point seven gigawatts of gas generators, Apple CEO John Ternus pressing Craig Federighi toward an agentic Siri, new Elvis and Eminem lawsuits against Suno, a benchmark showing coding agents fully finish only about a quarter of real tasks, and OpenAI's one-word teaser due to land today. Hosted by Maya.

NVIDIA’s board has opened an independent investigation after reports that CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese intelligence effort. The announcement came as Huang apologized to his family and colleagues for being unfaithful and said he would cooperate with the review.

In this episode, we trace the story from the first reports about former Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to the intelligence memo described by The New York Times and the board’s announcement on Sunday.

We also look at NVIDIA’s initial response, China’s denial, and why the case has drawn attention in Washington.

What has been confirmed? What remains an allegation? And what does this mean for a company at the center of the global AI chip race?

Sunday's Morning Brief leads with the New York Times investigation into U.S. approvals for Nvidia H200 chips in China, where a cleared company called New Matrix lists an empty Beijing office and its owners have reported ties to a blacklisted fund. Plus Anthropic starts its IPO roadshow this week as reported valuations slide from two trillion dollars toward one trillion, Apiiro finds real passwords and API keys in 1,122 public Claude Code settings files on GitHub, and Chainalysis restores key products after exposing credentials for all users. Then a Lean-checked quantum proof from an unreleased Anthropic model, the end of Microsoft's AI Frontiers group, and Tuesday's inflation report to watch. Hosted by Maya.

Saturday's Morning Brief leads with a repricing of the two biggest private AI companies. Bloomberg and Reuters report OpenAI has closed $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, while Wall Street Journal reporting says Anthropic's IPO investors are pushing its $1.5 trillion price down. Plus Friday's jobs-driven market bounce, with 165,000 jobs added and December rate hike odds near 77 percent, Microsoft winding down rented Oracle capacity on older Nvidia chips, Nvidia tightening chip tracking in Southeast Asia, Google's $17 billion Wyoming data center, and a shared industry scale for rating cyber jailbreaks. Hosted by Maya.