November 12, 2026

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Good morning, archivists. Nintendo might have a job for you. The company is looking to hire someone who will help keep its work “preserved for future generations.”

This only further proves that the time you spent 18 hours playing Mario Kart without stopping was one for the books.

—Holly Van Leuven, Sam Klebanov, Molly Liebergall

In today’s newsletter, we’ll get into:

Nvidia preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang
Democrat Scott Colom winning Mississippi Senate race
The Embassy of Finland in Canberra causing an internet frenzy

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Markets: The three major indexes closed as green as the female M&M yesterday. And thanks to CoreWeave’s rally, which made investors feel hopeful about AI again, the tech-heavy Nasdaq officially erased its post-election losses.

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Nvidia’s board weighs ousting CEO after 2nd affair revealed

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Nvidia’s board met last night to discuss the possibility of replacing CEO Jensen Huang hours after it was revealed that he had been involved in a second extramarital affair, this one with an Nvidia executive who reports directly to him. But as of 5:15am ET, there had been no announcement regarding the fate of the longtime leader of the $4 trillion chipmaker that sits at the heart of the AI industry.

How we got here: On Sunday, Nvidia was roiled by news of Huang’s affair with Alice Huang (no relation)—an executive from Megaspeed, one of Nvidia’s largest Southeast Asian customers, and an alleged Chinese spy. Then yesterday, the New York Times reported the identity of another affair partner: Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare. Nvidia’s code of conduct states that employees should “avoid situations where our actions create conflict,” including “personal relationships.”

You know it just ain’t easy

Replacing the CEO of the company benefiting the most from the AI era is no small feat. And Huang had not just a nearly unparalleled work ethic, but also a global following:

His huge fan base outside of Nvidia earned the moniker “Jensanity.” He frequently received rockstar treatment, and went viral when a woman at the 2024 Computex conference asked him to sign her fitted white t-shirt (“Is that a good idea?” Huang asked before brandishing a Sharpie).
An Nvidia co-founder, he has held the positions of president and CEO since 1993, and he’s made no succession plans. He remains Nvidia’s largest individual shareholder, owning about 3.5% of the company.
The executive won respect and loyalty from President Trump, who became known for making unscheduled, late-night calls to Huang to get advice on AI and other matters.

Zoom out: Nvidia stock cratered by almost 9% in after-hours trading and continued to fall in pre-market trading, as investors wondered if the company can keep the party going without a Tom Ford-clad exec at the helm. The board’s decision is likely to reverberate, as the company controls ~90% of the market for the chips used in AI, a major force in the US economy.—HVL

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World

Tour de headlines

Senator-elect Scott Colom (D-MS) speaks during a victory rally

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🗳️ Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate seat. The Associated Press called the race for Colom yesterday, after local election officials processed absentee and “affidavit” (provisional) ballots. The Democrat narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, with 49.18% of the votes to her 48.72%. Hyde-Smith was favored to win her bid for a second term, as a Democrat has not won a Senate seat there since 1982. She conceded the race to Colom yesterday, congratulating him in a social media video in which she said, “I respect the decision of Mississippi voters.” Colom will be the state’s first Black senator since Blanche K. Bruce served from 1875 to 1881, at the end of Reconstruction in the state.

⚠️ Treasury Secretary Bessent leaves home and relocates to US military base following Iran death threats. The move followed the Wall Street Journal publishing an article with a photo that allowed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s house in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC, to be geolocated, an anonymous source told CBS News. Bessent has been orchestrating Operation Economic Outcast, a whole-of-government economic campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran. In recent weeks, US officials told the New York Times, Iranian targeting of prominent Americans in government has reached a more advanced stage. Relatedly, on Tuesday, the US accused three men of plotting multiple terrorist attacks in support of Iran, including one involving RAF Fairford in September.

🇧🇷 Brazil fined Facebook $1.3 million for failing to fully comply with court orders related to election. Justices in Brazil ruled that Facebook did not fully comply with court orders last month aimed at ensuring equal treatment of both President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as “Lula,” and his challenger, Flávio Bolsonaro, during the country’s runoff presidential election on Oct. 25. Ahead of the election, Lula’s campaign filed a lawsuit saying that Meta’s algorithms were biased toward Bolsonaro. The company responded that the issues stemmed from unrelated global tech glitches and not preferential treatment. While the justices fined Facebook for inadequately meeting the court’s demands, they said there was no evidence thus far that the company tried to influence the election. Lula won the runoff election by a margin of 4.4 million votes.—HVL

Memory lane

America’s legendary Route 66 turns 100

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The road everyone imagines when they picture a quintessential old-timey road trip in a Cadillac is celebrating its centennial. The storied Route 66, a nostalgic time capsule of 20th-century roadside Americana, turned 100 yesterday.

Museum of motorist glory

Traversing rural expanses in eight states to connect Santa Monica, CA, and Chicago, IL, the 2,400-mile road became a cultural touchstone by serving as the nation’s main interstate highway.

But today, many of its iconic midcentury diners, gas stations, and motels stand as tumbleweed containers, while its famous neon signs are dim. That’s because the towns that relied on the roadside economy were hollowed out by the modern interstate highway system, which eclipsed the two-lane route in the 1980s.

Parts of it still hear the sound of engines: Thanks to state historical preservation efforts, visitors from the US and abroad flock to roadside attractions like the Wild West relic town Oatman, AZ. Meanwhile, some opt for less-touristy ghost towns. And there’s currently a bipartisan push in Congress to grant National Historic Trail status to all of Route 66 to promote economic development.

There’s been a birthday boom: The centennial gave many businesses alongside the route a boost this summer, despite high gas prices threatening roadtripping, the LA Times reported.—SK

Reader Poll

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TUNA HOUSE

We sank the world’s fastest ocean liner, on purpose

A big, unclean sea ship sits in a harbor

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Instead of sleeping with the fishes, a long-retired supership is giving fish a place to sleep. Florida officials sank the historic SS United States to the bottom of the Gulf yesterday to create the world’s largest artificial reef, after the 990-foot craft sat idle for decades.

The SS US launched in 1952 and completed the fastest-ever eastbound transatlantic crossing on its maiden journey. (The record still stands.) The ship is over 100 feet longer than the Titanic. Before its decommissioning in 1969, its 800+ voyages offered a who’s who of the era of smoking indoors: Passengers included JFK, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, Duke Ellington, and even Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” painting.

Now, a bunch of tuna, marlin, and swordfish are supposed to move in:

Florida’s Okaloosa County bought the ship for $10.1 million in 2024 as part of a $13.5 million tourism project—officials figure that if they improve the area’s marine habitats, it’ll attract more divers and fishers.
“We’re trying to be the best diving destination in the world,” county spokesperson Nick Tomecek said, noting there are ~500 other artificial reefs near the SS US’s resting place.

Anchors away: The plunge comes after some historical and preservation groups made several failed attempts to halt the ship’s final descent, despite broad support for the sinking.—ML

MOLLY EXPLAINS THE INTERNET

Finland embassy closed for one day, became meme

Finland flag blows in the wind against a blue sky

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The online world can be a beautiful yet confusing series of tubes. On Thursdays, the Brew’s Molly Liebergall untangles them for you.

Why would anyone other than Finns in Australia care that their nation’s delegation Down Under temporarily shut its doors for an admin day? We don’t know, and neither does Finland, and neither do millions of Instagram users whose algorithms inexplicably brought them to the embassy’s announcement this week.

“We were all having a nice planning day, then someone said, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s gone completely viral,’” Finland’s ambassador to Australia told Guardian Australia.

The post in question was a simple timelapse of the northern lights, overlaid with text that read “The embassy of Finland in Canberra will be temporarily closed on Tuesday, 10 November 2026. Regular hours will resume on Wednesday, 11 November.”

It’s drawn ~11 million views as of yesterday and inspired a deluge of posts from creators, meme pages, and some businesses that jokingly lamented the embassy’s closure.
In honor of the memeified event, American Airlines announced, “Due to the Embassy of Finland in Canberra being closed today, we will be having a flash sale with flights to Europe starting at 22,500 miles.”

This might be why IG’s algorithm picked up the video: The embassy’s ~24,000-follower account had already entered the limelight last week with its previous post promoting a Finnish dating program, which has millions of views. The stunt, run by Visit Finland, will fly 15 singles to Helsinki for dinner dates with Finns.—ML

Three Headlines and a Lie

Three of these headlines are real and one is faker than your day trader cousin’s Rolex. Can you spot the odd one out?

Hundreds gather at Chicago’s Bean to push it 7 inches to the left
I tested the new AI wearable helping people get through the holidays with relatives
Detroit transit officials looking into ‘unsafe’ incident where 2 horses boarded public bus
Skims offers refunds for $150 advent calendar full of hair ties and ‘junk’

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Written by Holly Van Leuven, Sam Klebanov, and Molly Liebergall

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