⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Bessent:

Chinese AI models are dangerous because they don't have guardrails on them.

I predict you're probably going to see a big incident somewhere in the world.

I don't know who here saw the refrigerators in 150 grocery stores in France that got turned off. That was a Chinese model.

Probably the worst of all worlds: the Iranians using a Chinese model.

⚡️🔎🇨🇳 WATCH - Take the time with Google Maps to take a look at the remote regions of China, you will see why China has become what it is.

⚡️🇺🇸 ICYMI - NVIDIA may have a much bigger problem than anyone expected.

Jensen Huang warned that excess chip wafers and memory were coming at NVIDIA like an “avalanche” as major cloud providers started shifting towards their own AI chips.

This sparked a clash with CFO Colette Kress, who was worried about the company’s growing financial commitments. Huang called her “a deer in the headlights” for questioning the deals.

NVIDIA also cut its planned OpenAI computing guarantee from $250 billion to $125 billion.

Now, the company is asking TSMC to scale back chip orders

⚡️🇺🇸 MORE - Abdul El-Sayed:

I will likely swear on a Quran. Which Quran, we're not sure.

Thomas Jefferson had a copy of the Quran. So when Keith Ellison was sworn in to Congress, he swore on that copy.

There's also the first Quran in the state of Michigan. The University of Michigan holds it. It's very, very old, and that might be the choice.

So I don't know, but I'll swear on the Quran.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Abdul El-Sayed confirms he will swear on the Quran.

He would become the first U.S. senator in history to take the oath of office using the Quran.

⚡️🤡 UPDATE - More than 14 hours later, Microsoft is still struggling to fix its massive Outlook outage, the disruption is affecting businesses worldwide, including Europe.

Euronext, the European stock exchange operator, has advised listed companies to use phone calls instead of email for important corporate communications.

Microsoft reports early signs of recovery after implementing traffic optimization measures to improve server stability and capacity.

More than 430 million people use Microsoft 365 apps.

⚡️🔎 ICYMI - All the New Updates on Jensen Huang's exit from Nvidia:

- CNN: US intelligence still can't prove Alice Huang was spying for China. AG Todd Blanche says no conclusions have been reached.

- Bloomberg: After the FT reported the affair, Nvidia's general counsel confronted Huang at home and he confessed. The NYT report on a second affair sealed it. People close to him say he now calls himself a "piece of sh--".

- WSJ: In August, Huang called Colette Kress, now his successor, "a deer in the headlights". She had pushed back on billions in chip financing guarantees and cut Nvidia's OpenAI backstop in half.

Nvidia reports earnings on Tuesday. It's Kress's first test.

⚡️🇲🇻🇮🇱 NEW - The Maldives government has submitted a bill to Parliament to permanently ban Israelis from entering the country.

⚡️🇵🇸 NEW - Shawn Mendes posted a “FREE PALESTINE” statement on Instagram, calling the situation in Gaza a genocide, urging an end to the killing, and pointing his roughly 68 million followers to organizations he has donated to.

He urged fellow artists to speak out despite the fear of doing so, writing “I feel it now as I type this” and “Lets normalize speaking up and standing up for those suffering from oppression.”

⚡️👀 NEW - Hundreds of NVIDIA employees have signed an internal letter demanding the reinstatement of Jensen Huang as CEO and the resignation of the board