Nvidia’s Scandal Is Spreading to Washington
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Nvidia’s Scandal Is Spreading to Washington

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 10, 20261 min
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  • Business & money

Plus: Japanese tech investment firm Softbank posts quarterly losses linked to U.S. data centres projects. And oil prices fall, following President Trump’s Iran comments. Sandra Kilhof hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Here's your morning brief for Tuesday, November 10th. I'm Sondra Kihlhoff for The Wall Street Journal. The fallout from Revelations, NVIDIA's CEO had an affair with an executive suspected of working for Chinese intelligence is spreading to Washington, where both Democrats and Republicans

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are calling for new laws to cut off China from top AI chips. For now, markets seem to be taking the NVIDIA news in stride. This morning, investors continue to pile into tech stocks that plunged in last week's sell-off.

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sector is getting a further boost from news that Anthropic is sticking with its plan to list before Thanksgiving, despite its investors expecting a much lower valuation. Meanwhile Japanese tech investment firm SoftBank released a disappointing earnings report this morning booking a net loss after its push into power generation for US data centers

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