November 9th, 2026
Good Morning . Nvidia’s board is now investigating its own CEO. Plus, the Cybertruck’s last lap, Scorsese’s 39 must-see foreign films, and a quantum computer switching on in Chicago.
Friday’s most clicked link: Matt Damon wants a Tarantino movie with Ben Affleck
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Nvidia’s Probe
Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation into CEO Jensen Huang on Sunday, after he told staff he’d had an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence agencies suspect of passing information to Beijing.
She is tied to Megaspeed, a cloud company accused of helping restricted Chinese firms get Nvidia chips. Huang apologized to employees in a short email , and the board says it has no reason to think secrets were compromised.
The timing is tight: Nvidia reports earnings Nov. 17, and three House committee chairs want a closed-door briefing the next day . Separately, $11.4 million in Nvidia hardware was stolen from a shipment leaving Oakland.
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The Missing Number
Tuesday’s October inflation report will skip the annual rate for the first time. The reason dates back a year: the government shutdown kept the Labor Department from collecting October 2025 prices.
Without that baseline, there’s no 12-month change to publish , so all eyes go to the monthly number. Forecasters expect 0.3%, down from September’s 0.6% jump, when prices ran 3.7% higher than a year earlier.
That puts more weight on one month heading into the Fed’s December meeting, where another rate hike is in play. The annual comparison returns with November’s report next month.
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Godzilla Stomps
Godzilla Minus Zero opened to $31.6 million in North America, the biggest debut ever for a live-action foreign-language film. It broke the record set by China’s Hero, which opened to $17.8 million in 2002.
The Japanese sequel was the first Japanese production filmed for Imax, and premium screens drew about 74% of its ticket sales. It also beat The Cat in the Hat, which opened in 4,003 theaters.
The 2023 original, Godzilla Minus One, opened to $11.4 million and won a visual effects Oscar. See the final trailer (w/video), or catch up on all 36 live-action Godzilla films .
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Why You’ve Got Nothing Left by 6 P.M.
Half the time, nobody is interrupting us. We do it ourselves. UC Irvine’s Gloria Mark found we now last about 47 seconds on one screen , down from two and a half minutes in 2004, and getting back on track after an interruption can take almost half an hour.
When her team cut workers off from email for five days , heart-rate monitors showed them calmer, and they switched screens half as often. Author David Epstein’s fix is to batch email into set blocks.
Try it tomorrow: check email at three set times, like 9, 1 and 4.
See Cal Newport’s 3 fixes for the inbox trap →
Books Ryan Holiday Gifts the Most
Ryan Holiday owns a bookstore in Texas, and he admits he’s bad at the business part. He keeps pressing books into friends’ hands and telling his staff, “This one is on me.” Here’s who gets what:
- The friend who’s always “so busy”: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
- The one who says they don’t have time to read: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. Short, and Holiday says it packs a punch.
- The one whose inbox runs their day: Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The friend who can’t put the phone down: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- The history buff: Dead Wake by Erik Larson. The last voyage of the Lusitania, told like a thriller.
- Your dad: Ghost Town Living by Brent Underwood. Holiday says your dad will probably like this one.
- The aspiring investor: The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish. Holiday’s store can never keep the set in stock.
- The boss: The Daily Drucker by Peter Drucker. A page a day of management advice.
- New parents: Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy. Holiday says it’s a book about life, too.
- The family that never leaves the couch: Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Rinella. Holiday’s favorite line: raise kids who don’t say “ew.”
See all 33 books Holiday keeps giving away →
BUSINESS & MARKETS
▲ S&P 500
7,376.86 +0.31%
▲ Nasdaq
24,579.42 +1.09%
▼ Bitcoin
$74,187.09 −2.11%
*Stock prices as of Friday’s close. Bitcoin as of 5:01 a.m. ET; change is over the past 24 hours.
▲ Fox closed its Roku deal, putting its shows on a platform in 100 million homes What Roku holders get per share →
▲ Tesla will end Cybertruck production by mid-2027, with sales about a twelfth of Musk’s forecast Why the factory goes to robotaxis →
▲ Poppi’s founders launched Jetty, an everyday hydration drink, taking on Gatorade’s 60% share The $1.95 billion sale that funded it →
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THE OTHER 99%
▲ Ukraine talks resume Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, the first U.S.-brokered round with Russia since February Postwar security plans on the table →
▲ Measles cases passed 5,000 across 45 states this year, with eight deaths confirmed so far Track outbreaks in your state →
▲ IBM switched on its most advanced quantum computer in Chicago, built on its new Nighthawk chip The Illinois quantum campus it will anchor →
▲ Steph Curry scored 41 for his 16th 40-point game after 35, passing LeBron for the record His third 100-game three-point streak →
▲ A Pakistani astronaut will be the first foreigner aboard China’s space station, on Shenzhou 24 The two finalists in training →
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
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