What happened
Nvidia’s board met last night to discuss CEO Jensen Huang’s future after The New York Times reported he’d had a second extramarital affair, this time with an executive who reports to him. Nvidia launched an investigation into Huang’s relationships, and their possible national security implications, on Sunday, after he admitted to cheating on his wife, reportedly with alleged Chinese intelligence asset Alice Huang. Her former Singapore company, Megaspeed, has been under investigation since 2024 for allegedly smuggling Nvidia’s advanced AI chips into China, in violation of U.S. restrictions. 

Who said what
Nvidia’s growing “scandal has roiled both Wall Street and Washington,” The Washington Post said, “with lawmakers from both parties calling for investigations.” The board is “preparing to oust” Huang after the two affairs, according to The Wall Street Journal. “Under Nvidia’s bylaws,” Reuters said, a majority of the board can remove the CEO “with or without cause.” Firing Huang would “have widespread ripple effects” on the AI boom he stoked and the broader economy, the Times said.

What next?
The “blast radius from Nvidia’s espionage scandal” has spread to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Politico said. Lutnick “has spent the last year ‘undoing’ efforts by other administration officials” to bar Nvidia chips from being sold to Megaspeed, Axios said, citing sources.

What happened
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his top advisers were publicly reprimanded by a U.S. Army sentinel yesterday for laughing and talking loudly while posing for photos at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. “All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times,” the soldier shouted at Hegseth’s entourage, which included his wife and his chief of staff. The incident, captured by television cameras, followed a Veterans Day ceremony. 

Who said what
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is “one of the most solemn and revered war memorials in the U.S.,” The Associated Press said. The final resting place for unidentified soldiers from three wars, it has been “guarded around the clock — rain or shine — by a soldier from the Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, also known as ‘The Old Guard,’ since 1948.” The sentinel who reprimanded Hegseth’s group “correctly and respectfully reminded everyone to maintain decorum,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement. 

What next?
The public scolding put Hegseth “back in the spotlight a day after House Republicans banded together to squash an effort to impeach” him, USA Today said. President Donald Trump, “who also faced criticism for behavior at Arlington National Cemetery when he filmed a campaign video there in 2024, stood by Hegseth” before the impeachment vote, CNN said, and “vowed to continue supporting him moving forward.” 

Did you hear the world is ending tomorrow? That’s according to three physicists, six decades ago. “Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve,” they said in an article published on Nov. 4, 1960, in the journal Science. “They will be squeezed to death.”

Austrian-American physicist Heinz von Foerster and two colleagues wrote the paper with the sobering and very specific title “Doomsday: Friday, November 13, A.D. 2026.” The work is “based on a simple observation” that the “time it took for the human population to double in size kept getting shorter,” Science said last month. Drawing on population estimates from about 400 B.C. until 1958, the authors “came up with an equation that best described the trend.”

They predicted that by 2020 the human population would exceed 25 billion. The claim caused an “immediate stir,” said Alan MacEachern, a history professor at Canada’s Western University, at The Conversation. Many commentators thought the article was “strictly a tongue-in-cheek comment on population fears.”

Demographers “pointed out obvious flaws,” said Science. Nevertheless, the article was “regularly cited,” and its predictions appeared “remarkably accurate” for a while.

But in 1993, “halfway to the ‘doomsday,’” the “global population began falling behind its forecasts,” said MacEachern. Now, the global birth rate is “slightly less than half what it was in 1960,” so “hopefully, we will all wake up on Nov. 13 to an ordinary day.”