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4 picks · curated
01
AP Wire 11h

Nvidia investigates whether CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese spy with whom he had an affair

Nvidia's board opened an independent investigation after Huang admitted an affair with Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive whom U.S. intelligence reportedly concluded was feeding information to Beijing; Megaspeed has bought more than $4.8 billion of Nvidia chips in two years. Huang stays on as CEO, the board says it has no reason to believe secrets were compromised, and China calls the spy claims a smear.

02
Hacker News txt 424 c · 799 pts

Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders

Internal guidance updated in October limits Claude Code and GitHub's coding agents to Goldman's roughly 12,000 engineers and its strats, cutting off traders who had used them to monitor client flows and model positions, four months after the bank's CIO praised their "vibe coding." Goldman is also a lead underwriter on Anthropic's IPO.

03
Marginal Revolution 4 am

End the state veto on power lines

New research by Liscow, Shapiro and Williams finds that after Congress ended states' veto over interstate gas pipelines in 1947, miles built per year rose nearly sixfold while oil pipelines, still subject to state approval, stayed flat. Interstate power lines still need every state's sign-off; a bill facing a Senate cloture vote Monday would let FERC approve a line a state has blocked or stalled for a year.

04
NPR txt today

Supreme Court weighs effort to shield federal law enforcement as ICE complaints rise

The Supreme Court hears a federal prisoner's suit against a nurse who told him to "stop being a cry baby" about back pain later diagnosed as a fractured tailbone. The case could further narrow, or overrule, Bivens, the 1971 precedent that lets people sue federal officers for violating their constitutional rights, just as complaints about immigration agents mount.