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Good Morning! Anthropic’s IPO is reportedly multiple times oversubscribed as the company seeks to raise as much as $90.4 billion. OpenAI’s revenue jumped ~50% quarter over quarter to $10 billion. And Nvidia received a rare downgrade from Baird over uncertainty surrounding its CEO.

CoreWeave shares surged after a higher outlook eased concerns about an AI slowdown. And New York workers can now see what their bosses have written about their job performance.

Plus: Why a private equity firm suddenly halted deportation flights for ICE, Blackstone targets $3 billion for real estate secondaries, and how to get out of your own head.

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Sir a 2nd Jensen affair has hit the US economy

If you’re having a rough week at work, don’t worry, because Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is definitely having a worse one. 33 years after coming up with the idea to start Nvidia over breakfast at Denny’s and $5 trillion in market cap later, Huang is reportedly facing an effort by his own board to remove him.

Nvidia was already reeling from reports that Huang had an extramarital relationship with an alleged Chinese spy. Huang has since apologized to both his family and his employees, and the company has shed hundreds of billions of dollars in market value amid the fallout.

And yesterday, The New York Times reported that Huang had a second extramarital relationship, this time with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare. Powell, who is also married, has worked at the company since 2008 and reports to Huang.

Huang and Powell were reportedly seen in March 2026 being affectionate at a San Jose hotel after an Nvidia conference. A bystander allegedly filmed the encounter before Huang’s security team approached him and asked him to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

The board is working with an external firm to explore potential replacements for Huang, with Tim Cook reported as a possibility, and Nvidia shares were down 8% in aftermarket trading. And it will be interesting to see what happens. Huang has long argued against succession planning and has around 60 direct reports, and there’s no clear-cut deputy he can pass the torch to. 

Takeaway: It’s hard to imagine Nvidia without Jensen Huang, but he could reportedly resign or be fired as soon as today. Investors spent the past couple of years debating whether Nvidia and AI demand would live up to lofty expectations, but nobody had the CEO’s extramarital affairs as the downside case. Charlie Munger once said “there are only three ways a smart person can go broke: liquor, ladies, and leverage.”

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HEADLINES

Top Reads

  • Anthropic's IPO is said to be multiple times oversubscribed (BB)

  • OpenAI continues to suffer heavy losses as revenue rises to $10 billion (WSJ)

  • Nvidia gets rare downgrade as Baird raises CEO uncertainties (BB)

  • Another potential Palm Beach teardown hits the market for $75 million (WSJ)

  • CoreWeave stock pops 15% after outlook raise eases AI slowdown concerns (CNBC)

  • Workers in New York can now see what their bosses say about their job performance (Syracuse.com)

  • Why a private equity firm suddenly halted deportation flights for ICE (BB)

  • Blackstone aims to raise $3 billion for real estate secondaries (BB)

  • Anthropic's PE-backed venture, Ode, pushes to get paid for AI results (The Information)

  • Nvidia hires law firm once retained by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani amid Jensen Huang affair scandal (Forbes)

  • Fed's Goolsbee calls inflation report 'borderline disturbing' as central bank weighs more hikes (CNBC)

  • Utah-based startup raises $500 million for modular AI data center (BB)

  • Private equity due diligence startup raises $31M (Axios)

  • AI debt blowups become fodder for ETFs aimed at retail investors (BB)

  • The global economy looks vulnerable to an AI bust (WSJ)

  • CoreWeave finds a workaround to capital constraints—for now (WSJ)

  • Semi-private jet service to offer flights from Boston to NYC starting at $199 (BB)

CAPITAL PULSE

Markets Rundown

Market Update

  • Stocks closed higher as the Nasdaq led after strong CoreWeave results and reports of heavy investor demand for Anthropic’s planned IPO, which could value it at $1.5 trillion or more.

  • Oil edged higher on Middle East diplomacy; U.S. bond markets were closed for Veterans Day.

  • Most Asian markets finished higher and European markets advanced.

AI Trade

  • CoreWeave revenue rose 168% year over year with a smaller-than-expected adjusted loss, and it raised 2026 revenue, operating income, and capex guidance.

  • The AI theme remains intact, though capital spending and profit growth are expected to moderate as the buildout matures.

  • U.S. large-caps trade at a discount to their 10-year average forward P/E, and U.S. mid-caps are also favored.

The Fed

  • The three-month annualized pace of core CPI accelerated to 3.7% in October from 1.6% in July.

  • Futures fully price at least a 0.25 percentage-point December hike, with roughly a 15% chance of 0.5.

  • The base case is a quarter-point hike in December and another in 2027, with more possible if core inflation accelerates further.

Movers & Shakers

  • (+) CoreWeave ($CRWV) +25% after the AI cloud provider beat Q3 estimates with revenue up 168% to $3.66 billion.

  • (+) Oracle ($ORCL) +9% because Bernstein reiterated an Outperform rating with a $325 price target.

  • (–) Rigetti ($RGTI) -9% after the quantum computing company reported Q3 revenue of $1.4 million, down 28% year over year.

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Private Dealmaking

  • Pliant, a Berlin-based provider of modular B2B payment solutions, raised $80 million

  • Charta Health, a medical chart review platform, raised $55 million

  • Bay, an Israeli developer of the trust layer for agentic enterprises, raised $50 million

  • Dreeze, a provider of cloud application recovery software, raised $33 million

  • SRTD Biotech, a German developer of precision mRNA therapeutics, raised around $36 million

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