Trump says FBI probing Nvidia CEO

Plus, the Cybertruck is EV pickup market's latest casualty.

Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Hello. US President Donald Trump says the FBI is probing Nvidia CEO Huang as China controversy deepens, he also says he will hold off on fresh Iran strikes for now. Plus, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that 71% of Americans support legislation ending conflict with Iran. Today's Top News   A photo shows NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang with a woman confirmed by a Reuters source to be Alice Huang in Taipei. Obtained by Reuters/via REUTERS US President Donald Trump said the FBI was looking into Nvidia CEO ‌Jensen Huang's affair with a Chinese businesswoman alleged to be a spy for Beijing. Courtney Rozen tells the Reuters World News podcast that with Democrats poised to take control of Congress, investigations into Huang and Nvidia could be one of their first major targets. This is what we know about Alice Huang. Trump said he plans to hold off on new military strikes against Iran for the time being after appeals from countries in the region, including from Qatar's prime minister in White House talks. Russian and Ukrainian officials met for their first US-brokered talks since February, after President Trump suggested last week that a broad deal was possible on ending the war in Ukraine and guaranteeing security ‌in Europe. British police said that detectives were assessing a number of new reports about comedian Russell Brand in the wake of his jailing for rape and sexual assaults. United States Majorities of Americans want the newly elected Democratic-majority US Congress to act to end the war with Iran and to repeal tariffs put in place by President Trump, signaling demand for quick action to address ‌the high cost of living, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. One week after the massive election defeat that repudiated their fealty to President Trump, Republicans in the US Congress are set to decide who will lead their party next year when Democrats take over the Senate and House of Representatives. A billionaire tax that US Senator Bernie Sanders and other progressives championed as an antidote to economic inequality and a potential model for the ‌rest of the country was defeated in California, US media projected. Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, calls himself the secretary of war, part of his effort to rebrand a military he said was too weak and "woke" when he took office last year. Now, with an expected House impeachment vote this week, he could soon share something in common with an actual secretary of war. Business & Markets   A drone view shows Microsoft data center in Middenmeer, Netherlands November 4, 2026. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw Microsoft has been pressing the Trump administration to halt plans to bar Chinese imports of a key component used in AI ‌data centers, three people familiar with the situation said. Anthropic's IPO is set to raise as much as $64.4 billion, a regulatory filing showed, in a landmark test of whether Wall Street's faith in the AI boom outweighs concerns over its risks. Reuters exclusively reported that Anthropic and some of its investors plan to sell shares in an indicative price band of between $70 and $78 per share. Tesla’s move to discontinue its Cybertruck next year is perhaps the highest-profile flameout in a category that automakers had once hyped: huge electric ‌pickups. China's trade surplus surged past $1 trillion in the first 10 months as a global race to build AI infrastructure buoyed sales of high-tech products and helped offset weak domestic demand, a dynamic likely to sharpen tensions with major trading partners. Three contract workers have died at a Tata Electronics factory that makes parts for Apple iPhones in India's southern Tamil Nadu state, the latest supply chain incident affecting the US company in its most critical manufacturing base after China. The scientist and investor Kai-Fu Lee has spent decades working on self-teaching computers. In this episode of The Big View podcast, he tells Peter Thal Larsen why most companies aren’t seeing benefits from AI, and why those that develop new applications will reap the biggest reward Vanishing vessels and missing sailors: The Iran war's human cost at sea   V. Pandiselvi with her husband, V. Vadivel, and their son, Prithiv Kumar. REUTERS/Praveen Parmasivam V. Pandiselvi, the mother of Indian sailor Naveen Kumar, has not heard from her son for more than six months yet she still clings to hope he will return. Kumar was one of six crew members assigned to work on two Iran-linked cargo vessels last seen in Iranian waters in May before disappearing. The vessels' fate is still unclear. Commercial ships ‌have come under fire since the US-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28.  Reuters spoke to shipping sources, Iraqi officials and the families of missing sailors in Iraq's Basra and India's Tamil Nadu state to reveal the human cost of Hormuz attacks. Read more And Finally... People take photographs near a giant statue of Pope Leo after its unveiling ahead of the pontiff's visit to Peru, in Callao, Peru, November 9, 2026. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril  Before Pope Leo reaches Peru later this week, a larger-than-life version is already waiting for him on the Pacific shore. ‌A towering white statue of the pontiff, arms stretched wide, was inaugurated ahead of Leo's final and most personal leg of his South American tour. The 6-foot monument stands in Callao, a port city adjoining Lima, and is billed by its municipality as the world's tallest sculpture of a pope. It depicts the first US-born pope in flowing white robes in a country that has embraced him as one of its own. Leo’s arrival in Peru on Wednesday will cap his ⁠12-day, three-country tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, his first to South America as pope and a return to a region where he spent years as a missionary.  Read more   Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on the Reuters website   Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you’ve engaged with its contents. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions   © 2026 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036

Nvidia probes CEO over alleged spy affair

Plus, how the US was left exposed to the flesh-eating screwworm.

Go beyond the headlines with Reuters on the stories shaping the day. Subscribe for $1/week. Daily Briefing Daily Briefing By Kate Turton Hello. Today's top story is Nvidia's sliding shares as the chip giant probes its CEO over spy claims. Plus, how the US was left exposed to the flesh-eating screwworm, years into the outbreak. Today's Top News   Jensen Huang in Berlin, Germany, October 19, 2026. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner Nvidia has launched an investigation into whether its CEO Jensen Huang was the target of foreign intelligence as he admits to having an affair. Ken Li tells the Reuters World News podcast that with markets already nervous about the long-term economics of AI, the timing couldn't be worse. A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month's riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest on uncontrolled immigration and portray the government as having lost control, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters. Read our exclusive. US President Donald Trump said he was highly unlikely to order fresh attacks on Iran as long as talks to end the conflict progress, even as both countries reported that shipping had been hit in or near the Strait of Hormuz. At home though, he's seen to be on a course for conflict with the appointment of Stephen Miller as his chief of staff. According to administration officials and other Republicans, the appointment indicates that he plans to ramp up confrontation in his final two years in office. Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requested a new passport and identity card ‌so she can return from self-imposed exile in India, according to a letter seen by Reuters, her first such communication since fleeing in 2024. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon looks set to hang on to power as the head of a coalition government with a razor-thin majority following Saturday's election, but his National ‌Party could lose control of key government ministries to right-wing coalition partners. A young gunman who killed six people in central Krakow in an unprecedented Polish mass shooting has died in ‌hospital. Very little information has come out about the shooter, who was shot by police officers and arrested minutes after he opened fire at people from his car in Krakow's historic main square. For decades, planes dropped billions of factory-bred sterile flies to keep the flesh-eating New World screwworm out of North America’s cattle. That controls the pest because sterile males mate with wild females – whose eggs then fail to hatch. But the strategy works only if the supply of flies never runs short. Business & Markets   Utilities, developers and firms racing to power AI data centers are scouring the world for second-hand gas turbines, reviving mothballed machines and converting retired jet engines, as lead times for costly new equipment stretch into the next decade. The Trump administration's push to bring novel offshore perpetual futures to the US is raising alarms, according to interviews with four executives at incumbent exchanges and other key market participants who warned that the products will introduce serious new risks to the multitrillion-dollar derivatives market. Tesla will have to refund Cybertruck deposits for many customers as orders far exceed production capacity, CEO ‌Elon Musk said, following last week's announcement that the electric vehicle maker is winding down the pickup truck's production at its Texas factory. A blockbuster US jobs report has boosted expectations of another Fed rate hike. With fresh inflation data due this week, investors are watching closely. More on the Reuters Morning Bid podcast. Tears and joy as Ukrainian couple divided by occupation meet again   Serhiy and Larysa Ryndovy during their reunion outside a hospital in Kyiv, November 5, 2026. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko Larysa Ryndova hurried to see her husband as if they were going out on a first date — makeup on and perfume spritzed in the car. It was the first time she had laid eyes on 68-year-old Serhiy in four and a half years — time he had spent trapped with others in the Russian-held town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine. They last saw each other in 2022 when Larysa fled to England to live with their son, three months into the occupation following Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine. Serhiy stayed to look after the family home, ending up stuck in the town peppered with Russian-laid landmines and facing a mounting humanitarian crisis. Read more And Finally... A member of the Orthodox Jewish community prepares backstage during the "Kosher & Chic" fashion show in Budapest, Hungary. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo Orthodox Jewish women in Budapest held a "Kosher & Chic" Fashion Show to challenge stereotypes and to show that dressing modestly and according to the rules ‌of their religion doesn't mean "having to give up who you are." Since the 1989 fall of communism, Jewish community life has revived in the Hungarian capital. The organiser of the event, Monika Ungar, said the fashion show challenged stereotypes around Orthodox Jewish women and showed that they can dress "really, really beautifully, even though according to the rules." View images   Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on the Reuters website   Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here. Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. This email includes limited tracking for Reuters to understand whether you’ve engaged with its contents. For more information on how we process your personal information and your rights, please see our Privacy Statement. Terms & Conditions   © 2026 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036