Her name is Kimberly Powell. She is 48 this year and joined Nvidia in 2008.
> November 8, 2026. Jensen Huang sends a letter to every Nvidia employee.
> “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.”
> The affair was with Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman suspected by US intelligence of being a spy.
> The board opens an investigation.
> The FBI is involved.
> Nvidia’s stock falls.
> Then, three days later, the story gets worse.
> November 11, 2026. The New York Times publishes a second report.
> Jensen Huang had another affair.
> A second woman.
> A subordinate.
> Someone who reports directly to him.
> Her name is Kimberly Powell.
> Vice president of healthcare at Nvidia.
> Joined the company in 2008.
> Promoted to senior director in 2016.
> Vice president by the end of 2017.
> Eighteen years at Nvidia.
> One of Huang’s roughly sixty direct reports.
> She is 48. He is 63.
> Both are married.
> March 2026. Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose.
> Powell presents on AI and healthcare.
> Her slides use animated images of Huang.
> Then executives gather at a nearby hotel.
> Huang and Powell are seen together.
> Affectionate. Intimate.
> A witness records it on their phone.
> Huang’s security team spots the witness.
> Escorts them away.
> Asks them to sign a confidentiality agreement.
> The video still exists.
> Five former Nvidia employees confirm the relationship was discussed inside the company.
> Nvidia’s code of conduct has a rule.
> Personal relationships can create conflicts of interest.
> The company says it promptly investigates reports of misconduct.
> The CEO wrote the letter that begins the code.
> He is now the subject of the investigation.
> November 12, 2026. The board prepares to meet.
> The Wall Street Journal reports the board could determine his future as soon as that day.
> The board is preparing to oust the CEO who built the most valuable chip company on Earth.
> Nvidia’s stock sinks more than 7% after hours.
> Huang, Powell, and Nvidia have all declined to comment.
> None of the allegations have been confirmed by any of them.
> The first affair cost him his reputation.
> The second affair may cost him his company.
> He admitted one. He has said nothing about the other.
> The board is meeting.
> The investigation is expanding.
> The man who kept his promise to Lori Mills is running out of promises to keep.
He built the most powerful company in the history of computing.
He admitted to one affair.
Then a second woman’s name surfaced.
The board is deciding whether he still runs the company he founded.
His name is Jensen Huang.
He is 63 years old.
And for the first time in his life, the next move is not his to make.
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Holy shit!! Fable 5.2 is literally the most insane model I've ever seen take on the Star Wars Blender Bench.
Done in 1.5 hours (20 min rendering time), Fable 5.2 presents the "First Battle of Geonosis"
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Grok Bot summary: IAC 2026 presentation by SpaceXAI President Michael Nicolls.
🎯 The main message
- SpaceX was founded in 2002 to make life multi-planetary and "extend the light of consciousness to the stars."
- He said the biggest risk as constellations grow is not debris. It's satellite operators not sharing data with each other.
🌍 How Starlink grew
- Starlink began in 2019 with 60 V0.9 satellites. User service started in late 2020 as the "Better Than Nothing Beta."
- V1.5 added space lasers, which let the satellites link into a mesh. That's when Starlink really took off, reaching oceans, Antarctica and airplanes.
- V2 (2023) has 4x the capacity of V1. Falcon launches V2 satellites 2–3 times a week, and each launch adds about 3 terabits of capacity.
- V3 launched on Starship about a week before the talk. Each V3 satellite has another 10x capacity, and each Starship launch carries 20–30x what a Falcon launch does.
- Starlink now has over 11,000 satellites, about 60% of all active satellites in low Earth orbit.
- It serves more than 13M customers in about 170 markets, plus ships and planes.
- The laser mesh means Starlink doesn't depend on local ground infrastructure. During last year's fires and power outages in Spain, it kept tens of thousands of customers and emergency responders online.
🚀 The life of a Starlink satellite
- **Before launch:** SpaceX checks that deploying the satellites won't bring them close to anything else, and shares where they'll be.
- **Deploy:** satellites are released below 300 km, where almost no other operators fly.
- **Orbit raising:** each climb path is checked against other satellites and crewed space stations, and SpaceX publishes the satellites' positions every hour on the way up.
- **Lower orbits for safety:** the original plan was about 1,000 km. Now every satellite flies below 500 km, and V3 will fly at about 350–360 km. At these heights a dead satellite falls back to Earth within months instead of staying up for centuries.
🛡️ How they avoid collisions
- Each satellite makes small station-keeping moves about once a day and a collision-avoidance move about every 10 days.
- Across the fleet, that's about 1,000 avoidance moves a day.
- Starlink's threshold for moving is nearly 100x more cautious than the industry standard, so the whole fleet's collision risk is about the same as a much smaller constellation's.
- "Ducking" moves turn the satellite so it presents a smaller target during a close pass, cutting the collision risk about 10x more.
- Automated software makes these decisions, which is why Starlink tries to stay in contact with every satellite at all times.
📡 Always connected
- Starship's live launch video was streamed over Starlink.
- The new V3 satellites connected to the network within 2 minutes of release, because Starlink terminals are built into the satellites. Their lasers link into the mesh within tens of minutes.
- The goal is to make contact right away and never lose it.
🌬️ Space weather
- During a 2024 solar storm, air density in orbit jumped 5x in a few hours, which throws off predictions of where satellites will be.
- Starlink is "probably one of the best sensors" for this. It measures density in real time and automatically corrects its position forecasts.
🔭 Working with astronomers
- **Optical:** SpaceX tried Vantablack paint and sun visors. What finally worked was a mirror-like film that reflects sunlight away from the ground, combined with careful steering. A V2 satellite now looks about as bright as a sheet of paper. This was done with groups like the Vera Rubin Observatory.
- **Radio:** working with observatories like the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Starlink steers its beams and frequencies around where the telescopes are pointing. As a result, the telescopes can now observe more often.
♻️ End of life
- SpaceX uses statistics to predict when parts will fail and deorbits satellites early. Many of those satellites would have kept working.
- Retired satellites are steered down within weeks, not left to drift for the 5 or 25 years regulations allow.
- They're built to burn up completely, and reentry is aimed over the ocean.
- Of about 10,000 satellites launched by early 2026, only a few dead ones remain in orbit. The goal is zero.
- "Reliability and rate go together."
⚠️ The biggest danger: other operators
- Tracked debris is like obstacles on a road: if you can measure it, you can avoid it.
- What you can't avoid is a satellite that maneuvers without telling anyone. Starlink has had passes as close as tens of meters this way.
- Starlink has maneuvered around satellites from about 650 operators in recent months, but shares position data with only about half of them. "That number is too low."
- SpaceX shares data with China's space station and some Chinese operators. Many operators don't share at all, including some in the US, Europe and Japan.
⭐ Stargaze: Starlink's own space tracking
- Over 30,000 star trackers on Starlink satellites spot passing objects as streaks against the stars.
- Stargaze now tracks over 17,000 objects, including about 90% of the maneuvering satellites that cross Starlink's orbits.
- In one example, an untracked satellite's predicted 9 km miss shrank to about 60 m after it maneuvered toward Starlink. Stargaze caught the move and the Starlink satellite dodged in time.
- He said it's still no substitute for operators sharing their plans in advance.
🤝 The ask: share your data
- SpaceX runs its own space safety data platform, and over 100 operators have signed up.
- Operators can upload their satellite positions and check them against Starlink and against Stargaze tracking.
- His message to every operator was to join the platform and share their positions.
🧠 StarMind: AI compute in space
- StarMind is SpaceX's planned AI satellite constellation, starting launches and scaling next year.
- The goal is to move AI compute off Earth. He expects StarMind to drive demand for Starship launches the way Starlink did for Falcon.
- On the ground, SpaceX is building over 2 GW of compute in Memphis. He said AI demand will be nearly limitless, and Earth's resources make that hard to keep scaling there.
- In space, the satellites run on solar power and shed heat through large radiators.
- Each satellite is simpler than a Starlink: basically a computer with big solar panels and radiators.
- Each one has about 250 kW, roughly one NVL72 rack of compute.
- They'd fly in tight clusters of about 10 satellites linked by about 10 terabits of bandwidth, then connect to Starlink.
- SpaceX has filed for up to **1 million satellites**, in low-inclination and sun-synchronous orbits. Building them could mean thousands of satellites a week.
- New challenges include much higher reliability and redundancy, flying in close formation, and micrometeoroids. Dead satellites might be sent away from Earth instead of burning up in the atmosphere.
🌙 Beyond Earth
- Starlink is developing very high-bandwidth lasers to connect the Moon, then Mars, building an "interplanetary mesh."
- All of that depends on getting safety right in low Earth orbit first.
💡 Key takeaways
- Starlink is the world's biggest constellation, and it's moving lower to be safer.
- It makes about 1,000 collision-avoidance moves a day, with nearly 100x more caution than the industry standard.
- The biggest risk is operators who don't share where their satellites are going.
- StarMind could scale to 1 million AI satellites, with launches starting next year.
- "Coordination is a key element for realizing all of our ambitions."
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Nicolas Ghesquière presents his Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2027 Collection live from Paris.
$ABEG: PRESERVING A CULTURE, BUILDING A MOVEMENT, SOLVING REAL PROBLEMS.
By Godspower Odok | Connect The Dot Global
There are words that communicate meaning, and there are words that carry the identity of a people. $ABEG represents both.
In Nigeria, “abeg” is more than a word. It is part of our everyday conversations, our humour, our relationships, our negotiations, and our expressions of compassion.
From the streets of Lagos to homes across Nigeria, from informal conversations among friends to serious requests for assistance, abeg has become a familiar expression in our social vocabulary.
We say it when we need help. We say it when we want someone to reconsider a decision. We say it when we are appealing for understanding. Sometimes, we use it playfully. At other times, it carries the weight of a genuine need.
Abeg is a cultural expression that connects people through the language of appeal, humanity, and shared experience.
And this presents us with a question:
What if we could build something meaningful around a word that millions of people already understand?
WHY $ABEG DESERVES SOMETHING UNIQUE
Cultures are not preserved merely by remembering their words. They are preserved when people find new, meaningful ways to express them across generations.
We live in a world where technology is changing how people communicate, transact, organize, and solve problems. Blockchain introduces another opportunity: the ability to build digital communities and coordinate resources around shared ideas.
But the real opportunity is not simply to turn a popular word into a token.
The opportunity is to transform cultural familiarity into practical value.
Imagine a community built around $ABEG where the spirit behind the word inspires organized charitable giving, support for vulnerable families, educational assistance, food relief, and initiatives that help communities respond to real needs.
Imagine a digital community where people do not merely recognize a cultural expression but actively participate in the values it represents.
Imagine a project that takes a familiar Nigerian word and gives it a purpose that can travel beyond Nigeria, across Southern Africa, and eventually into the wider world.
That is the kind of uniqueness worth pursuing.
FROM A CULTURAL EXPRESSION TO A SOCIAL MISSION
The strength of $ABEG should not be measured only by how many people recognize the word or how much attention the token receives.
Its long-term significance should also be reflected in what its community accomplishes.
Cultural preservation: Keep a familiar part of Nigerian expression alive in a changing digital world.
*Charitable impact: Create transparent, accountable initiatives that direct resources toward people who genuinely need help.
Community participation: Give holders, supporters, and partners meaningful opportunities to contribute beyond speculation.
Regional expansion: Introduce the story to new communities while respecting their cultures and needs.
*Real-world solutions: Develop measurable programs around food, education, welfare, and other clearly identified community challenges.
These ambitions require more than a compelling narrative. They require sound leadership, responsible financial management, transparent reporting, strategic partnerships, and consistent execution.
Good intentions must become organized action before they can produce lasting impact.
MAY WE NOT ALLOW THIS CULTURE TO DIE.
A generation that fails to preserve its cultural expressions risks losing pieces of its collective identity.
But preservation does not mean refusing to evolve. It means carrying the meaning of what we have inherited into new spaces, new technologies, and new possibilities.
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Caleb Williams’ reaction to Case Keenum getting the game ball in his robe is my dad on Christmas morning watching 7 year old me unwrap presents.
ZERO ALPHA Research Preview | Reframing NVDA
NVIDIA’s latest earnings report is the trigger event for a new round of deep research.
A company already among the largest in the world just delivered 106% year-over-year revenue growth, with Data Center revenue up 117%. What is striking is not simply that NVIDIA beat expectations again, but that its core business has returned to a doubling growth rate from an already enormous base, even as AMD GPUs, hyperscaler-designed chips, and custom AI accelerators continue to enter the market.
That prompted us to go back and re-examine NVIDIA’s full growth trajectory since 2023.
When revenue growth, earnings growth, stock-price appreciation, and P/E are viewed together, a very different pattern begins to emerge.
The first NVIDIA spring was largely top-down. The market recognized the potential of generative AI first, the stock price moved ahead, and earnings later caught up.
The second spring now looks increasingly bottom-up. Revenue growth re-accelerated from:
56% → 62% → 73% → 85% → 106%
while valuation multiples moved lower rather than higher.
In simple terms:
First Spring: P led E.
Second Spring: E is beginning to lead P.
This earnings report therefore may represent more than another earnings beat. It may be a signal that NVDA itself needs to be reframed.
It also raises a broader question:
What actually defines a true mega-cap growth stock?
A high P/E alone does not define growth. The rarest structure may be a company that is already enormous, still grows its core business near 100%, generates earnings faster than its stock price rises, avoids excessive valuation expansion, and continues to create new TAM.
Applying this framework to AMD, MU, SNDK, LITE, ALAB, DELL, and the hyperscalers makes the leadership hierarchy increasingly clear. Many of them have strong growth, but each still carries a weakness in valuation, cyclicality, pricing dependence, platform control, or growth durability.
NVDA currently presents a more unusual combination.
More importantly, at least four additional growth engines are still developing:
Pricing Power
Supply Efficiency
Open Models
Inference Specialization
If these continue to develop, today’s NVIDIA may not yet represent the peak of this second growth cycle.
And NVIDIA’s second spring may not belong to NVIDIA alone. Memory and storage, optical networking, and AI data-center operators could all benefit if another AI infrastructure expansion cycle is now beginning.
ZERO ALPHA will therefore use this earnings report — a mega-cap company returning to 100%+ core growth — as the starting point for a six-part NVDA Research Note series:
1/6. NVDA: The Second Spring — From P Leading E to E Leading P
2/6. NVDA: What Defines a True Mega-Cap Growth Stock?
3/6. NVDA: Why It Is Still in Its Prime, Not Near the Peak
4/6. NVDA: Four New Growth Engines — How Far Can the Second Spring Go?
5/6. NVDA: Why Leaders Lose Leadership — Lessons from Intel, Tesla, and AMD
6/6. NVDA: Will the Second Spring Reignite the Entire AI Infrastructure Chain?
Each note will focus on one independent question and can be read on its own.
ZERO Insight
The most important message from this earnings report may not be that NVIDIA beat expectations again.
It may be this:
When a company already this large returns to 100%+ core growth while trading at a much lower P/E than during its first AI explosion, what needs to be revalued may not be just NVDA’s stock price — but our entire understanding of mega-cap growth.
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For crypto founders, the biggest lesson from
@fomo and
@Pumpfun ascendance is that the distribution model of the last 5 years for apps is moot.
Web3 is dead, wallet connect is dead, dApps are dead.
The new plan is vertically integrated mobile: hide the crypto mechanics entirely. Single balance across chains, integrated onramp (Apple Pay is king), no bridges, no seed phrases or private keys (sign in with Google or X).
For wallet apps themselves, this presents an existential crisis. The user demands simplicity & the feeling of safety. In the past, your wallet was a gateway to crypto. Now, I hold a deposit in each app I use and I don't yet care if they talk to each other.
As always, we go through bundling and unbundling cycles. If Phantom and Jupiter and Metamask were bundling, we are now seeing a great unbundling.
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ScreenRant presents an exclusive clip from #
CoyoteVsACME#, featuring John Cena's Buddy Crane engaged in a serious discussion with Foghorn Leghorn.
After such a long wait, Coyote Vs. Acme finally arrives in theaters on August 28!
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