Bloomberg Daybreak: US Edition

Today's top stories, with context, in just 15 minutes.

On today's podcast:
1) House Republicans blocked the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for US military actions in the Middle East and Latin America, effectively killing the effort until Democrats take over Congress in January. GOP leaders forced a procedural vote to block quick consideration of the impeachment measure introduced on Monday by Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie. That procedural step, which sends the measure to the Judiciary Committee where it’s expected to languish, passed 211-204.

2) Nvidia Corp.’s investigation of Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy is raising questions about the company’s future and sending its stock into a tailspin. In the wake of Huang’s shocking disclosure in a memo to Nvidia employees on Sunday, Wall Street is wondering if the biggest and most important artificial intelligence chipmaker will be able to keep its leader and public face. Nvidia shares had been under pressure prior to this crisis as investors increasingly questioned the durability of the AI trade and the hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expenditures that are funding it.

3) CoreWeave Inc. eased fears about its debt-laden business during a high-stakes quarterly report, indicating that sales growth remains strong despite challenges facing the data center industry. The AI computing provider projected revenue of $13 billion to $13.3 billion this year. That exceeded its previous range of up to $13.2 billion and sailed past the $12.9 billion that Wall Street had predicted. The outlook offered some solace to the battered neocloud industry, which provides computing power to AI developers. Though the company has been signing new customers and adding infrastructure, its rapid spending and heavy debt load have worried investors.
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Today's top stories, with context, in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
1) President Trump said the FBI is looking into Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s extramarital relationship with a suspected Chinese spy, and offered his support to the embattled chip magnate a day after the affair was disclosed. Despite the allegations, Trump said Monday that he spoke to Huang earlier in the day to ask how he was doing, and praised Huang as a “very honorable man.” Trump’s remarks on Monday marked the second day in a row that he has defended the Nvidia chief following Huang’s admission that he had cheated on his wife of four decades, a revelation that has plunged the chipmaker at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom into an unprecedented crisis.
2) Anthropic PBC is set to kick off the formal marketing of its blockbuster initial public offering as early as Tuesday after an apparent snafu over the filing documents added a dose of last-minute drama to a nervous market. Monday’s brief clerical misstep, in which a leaked prospectus mistakenly dangled a $69.3 billion fundraising target before getting retracted, provided an unexpected jolt to investors preparing for the Claude chatbot maker’s offering. The number, which the company reportedly later said was outdated, indicated a target that would fall short of an earlier goal of matching SpaceX’s record-setting debut.
3) President Trump offered full-throated support for Pete Hegseth, signaling that the embattled defense secretary’s job was safe for now amid a congressional effort to impeach him for his conduct of the Iran war. Republican Representative Thomas Massie introduced a measure on Monday to impeach Hegseth, roughly one week after the president’s party lost its majorities in both chambers of Congress in part because of the conflict in the Persian Gulf.
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Today's top stories, with context, in just 15 minutes.

On today's podcast:

1) Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang admitted he had an affair with a woman identified in a series of reports as a suspected Chinese spy, plunging the chip colossus into a crisis like none before in its three-decade history. Huang disclosed the romantic relationship in a memo to employees on Sunday, saying the Nvidia board was launching an investigation. He had previously said there was nothing inappropriate about his relationship with the woman, who worked for a Singapore-based customer.

2) President Trump said it’s possible his administration has been “too tough” with its deportation policies, conceding that it may have hurt the Republican Party in the midterm elections. “I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally,” he said in an interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes that aired Sunday.

3) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio played down the chances of a breakthrough in talks on ending the conflict with Iran, saying Tehran’s demands to date are unacceptable and in some cases “outrageous and ridiculous.” Rubio’s comments to reporters contrasted with President Trump’s tone after CNN quoted the president earlier Sunday as saying it’s “highly unlikely” he’ll order more strikes on Iran if negotiations make substantial progress.
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In the series finale, our reporters try to crack the secretive companies behind nudify apps that let users create deepfakes in minutes. And a new case rocks another small town high school.
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Bloomberg Daybreak Weekend with Host John Tucker take a look at some of the stories we'll be tracking in the coming week.
In the US – a look ahead to U.S CPI data, with a focus on 3 stocks for the week ahead. They include: Paramount Skydance (PSKY) Hims & Hers (HIMS) and TakeTwo Interactive (TTWO)
In the UK – a look ahead to Ireland’s biggest summit ever.
In Asia – a look ahead to China's Singles Day holiday.

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