Jensen Huang Sued
By Emory Quill · Monday, November 9, 2026
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Jensen Huang Sued
Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, was sued today by one of his own shareholders. The shareholder is Mark Kistenmacher. He filed the lawsuit in a federal court in California.
His lawsuit says this. Nvidia and Huang told investors that Huang’s dealings with a company called Megaspeed were routine, just ordinary business. Megaspeed is a company in Singapore that buys Nvidia’s computer chips. The lawsuit says the dealings were not ordinary, because Huang had a personal relationship with a Megaspeed executive named Alice Huang. The lawsuit calls her a suspected Chinese spy.
That is what the lawsuit claims. No court has tested it. Nvidia has not yet answered it in court.
The timing is part of the story. The lawsuit was filed on Monday, the first day the stock market was open since the weekend. On Sunday, Nvidia’s board of directors announced its own investigation. The board’s investigation is into reports that Huang was the target of a foreign spying effort. The board says it has no reason to believe American national security was harmed, or that Nvidia’s secrets were taken.
The market answered the same day. Nvidia shares fell 4.27 percent, closing at $178.67, down $7.97. The fall was Nvidia’s alone. The Nasdaq rose 2.74 percent and the S&P 500 rose 2.35 percent on the same day.
China’s Foreign Ministry rejected the espionage allegations on Monday, calling them a smear against China.
President Donald Trump has weighed in twice. On Sunday, he called Huang “an honorable guy” and said he had not spoken to him about the reports. On Monday, at the White House, that changed. He said he had spoken to Huang that day. Huang told him he had no idea the woman was a spy. The President said he believed him. He also said the FBI is looking into it. The FBI has not confirmed that. He expects Huang will be “in good shape.”
Huang’s answer to three chairmen of the United States House of Representatives is due Wednesday, November 11. They have asked him to attend a closed-door briefing on November 18 about his contacts with Alice Huang. Nvidia reports its quarterly results on November 17.
The Count, and the Attorney General
United States Attorney General, Todd Blanche, walked into Jackson City Hall on Monday, across the street from the courthouse where Mississippi voters go to fix their affidavit ballots.
The count itself has not moved. Democrat Scott Colom still leads Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by 2,574 votes, 467,930 to 465,356, with about 97 percent counted, according to the Associated Press.
Demonstrators protested Blanche’s appearance. They accused him of obstructing the ballots. That is an accusation by demonstrators. It is not a finding.
The fight is over affidavit ballots. These are ballots cast by voters whose names were not on the poll books, or who did not have an acceptable photo ID. In an early tally of 503 processed affidavit ballots, Colom took 401 to Hyde-Smith’s 96.
Voters have until 5 p.m. Tuesday, November 10, to present a photo ID or sign a religious-objection affidavit. Counties must certify their results by November 13. Mississippi has no recount right for a candidate.
If Colom wins, he would be Mississippi’s first Black United States senator since Reconstruction.
In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola still leads Republican Senator Dan Sullivan by 637 votes, 102,962 to 102,325, with about three-quarters counted. The next batch of ballots comes Tuesday, November 10. The state’s ranked-choice count runs November 18.
Nothing is certified anywhere yet. The new Congress sits on January 3, 2027.
Four More Coins Back
Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange that lost about $6.3 billion to hackers on October 29, reopened withdrawals for its Alpha tokens on Monday on four networks: BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum.
Binance says its proof of reserves is ready. The proof covers 44 tokens. No independent check of the proof has been published.
The two sides still do not agree on the size of the theft. Binance puts it at $6.34 billion. Elliptic, the blockchain analytics firm, puts it at $6.43 billion.
Wars rage on and AI is playing a role.
Komyshuvakha: The Seventh Day
Rescue workers are still digging in Komyshuvakha, seven days after Russian forces dropped nine large glide bombs on a school there, where residents had gathered to collect humanitarian aid.
They dig in short stretches, fifteen to twenty minutes at a time. Then they have to pull back to safety. Drones and guided bombs are still a threat over the site. A Russian drone struck the crews as they worked on Sunday. No one was hurt. The strike damaged specialized rescue equipment. Still, they climb back in and dig again.
The toll stands at at least 55 dead. Police said on Monday that 30 of the 55 recovered bodies have been identified. Up to 19 people may still be under the rubble.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia dropped 1,900 guided bombs, 115 missiles, and more than 3,000 drones on Ukraine in the past week. That is his claim.
Russian strikes left 600,000 people without electricity in the Dnipropetrovsk region by Sunday. The United Nations Security Council met in New York on Monday about the power strikes.
American officials will mediate working-level talks between Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11. France will take part. Moscow’s demand for the rest of Donbas is unchanged.
Gaza: The Rain Did What the Bombs Had Not
In Gaza, the first winter storm did what the bombs had not. It killed a family in their tent.
On Sunday night, a sand embankment collapsed onto tents at a displacement camp south of Deir al-Balah after heavy rain. Gaza’s health ministry named the dead: Tahrir Nabhan, a woman, and three children, Mariam Nabhan, her brother Salah, and Habiba al-Zein.
Other counts put the collapse dead at five. Two people are still missing. No single total is settled tonight, and none is printed as one.
The United Nations aid office reported separately that an infant drowned in the flooding. That is a separate report, not part of the collapse toll.
The rain on Saturday flooded about 70,000 tents. More than 26,000 households have appealed for help with damaged shelters. More than 150,000 tents are waiting outside Gaza for dispatch.
No single total for the dead since the ceasefire is settled tonight. The figures in circulation disagree, and they have not been reconciled.
Sudan: The Grid, Again
In Sudan, the drones went back to the power grid on Monday.
Drone strikes hit three more electricity substations in eastern and northern Sudan, causing widespread outages. That brings the number of reported strikes on Sudan’s electricity network to 18 in the past week.
The fighting reached Damazin, the capital of Blue Nile State, over the weekend. A drone strike hit the city’s electricity substation and stopped work at the local dialysis centre, leaving patients without treatment.
On Monday, Sudan’s army said a group of Rapid Support Forces fighters had surrendered to its forces in Damazin. The army said their commander provided information about Ethiopian support for the Rapid Support Forces. That is the army’s claim.
Sudan’s government said on Sunday it had filed complaints against Ethiopia with the United Nations Security Council and the African Union, accusing Addis Ababa of involvement in the attacks on civilian infrastructure. That is an accusation, not a finding.
Editorial — By Hand
Strip tonight down and two things are left. The machines, and the people answering for them.
The machines first. Artificial intelligence runs on Nvidia’s chips. Today a shareholder sued Jensen Huang, saying investors were told his dealings with a chip buyer, Megaspeed, were routine business, while his personal relationship with a Megaspeed executive, a woman the lawsuit calls a suspected Chinese spy, went unmentioned. No court has tested that. But the board is investigating, and Congress has set its deadline. The hardware of the AI age passes through very few hands. Tonight, every one of those hands is being examined.
In the wars, the machines do the watching and the striking. Over Komyshuvakha, drones set the rescuers’ clock. Fifteen to twenty minutes of digging, then back to safety. Over Sudan, drones take the power grid apart one substation at a time. Aimed by people. Fired by people.
And in Mississippi, no machine settles anything. A voter whose ballot was set aside walks into the courthouse and fixes it in person, by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
That is the edition. The machines struck, watched, and sold. Every answer owed tonight is owed by a person, and every one carries a date.