Good Morning. U.S. envoys meet Putin in Moscow today, Nvidia’s board weighs Jensen Huang’s future, and the Macy’s parade turns 100 with a five-story Bluey. Plus, Paul McCartney’s first billion, the world’s southernmost hotel, and GoPro’s survival warning.
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Moscow Next
U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow this morning to meet Vladimir Putin, then fly to Dublin to see Volodymyr Zelensky (w/video). Two days of Abu Dhabi talks ended Wednesday without a breakthrough.
The one concrete result: Russia and Ukraine agreed in principle to a large prisoner swap, possibly the biggest since 1,000 soldiers from each side came home last year. Numbers are due today, with the exchange in two or three weeks.
Occupied territory and postwar security terms remain the sticking points. Moscow kept European officials out of the room, and Kushner says getting Europe into the talks is one goal of today’s meeting.
Nvidia’s Board
Nvidia’s board met late Wednesday to weigh removing CEO Jensen Huang, after reports it was preparing to oust the co-founder. No decision was announced overnight, and shares fell more than 8% in after-hours trading.
The board opened a probe Sunday into his ties to a woman U.S. intelligence believes is a Chinese spy. A second affair, with a subordinate, surfaced Wednesday. Some directors favor CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO.
Nvidia makes up about 7% of a typical S&P 500 index fund, so most 401(k)s hold a slice, and earnings land Nov. 17. A 10-minute way to check that exposure.
Parade Turns 100
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will fly a record 100 inflatables on Nov. 26 for its 100th edition. Nine balloons are new, including Hello Kitty, Underdog, Joe Cool with Woodstock and a holiday Bluey.
Bluey stands 47.2 feet tall, about the height of a five-story building. The first parade, in 1924, was called the Macy’s Christmas Parade, and Mickey Mouse joined as one of its first character balloons, co-designed by Walt Disney.
Crews took the new balloons on test flights Nov. 7 in New Jersey. The public can watch them inflate near the American Museum of Natural History the day before, from 1 to 6 p.m. (see the full lineup).
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Swap “Why” for “Help Me Understand”
Former Secret Service agent and polygraph examiner Brad Beeler has one rule for tense conversations: skip “Why did you do that?” It makes people defend who they are. Open with “Help me understand what happened” instead.
His second tip is about your face. A neutral expression can read as disapproval, so relax your forehead and let the other person finish.
Try both at the Thanksgiving table, the next time someone says something wild.
7 Podcast Episodes for the Thanksgiving Drive
Over 14 hours of listening, enough for the drive there and back:
Christopher Nolan has no email or smartphone (Founders, 51 min)
Arnold at 15, studying his hero with a magnifying glass (Founders, 43 min)
Ed Catmull on building Pixar with Steve Jobs (Founders, 1 hr 34 min)
Mike Tyson on the self-check he does now (Joe Rogan Experience, 1 hr 27 min)
Kevin Hart’s 30-day “you vs. you” challenge (Joe Rogan Experience, 2 hr 1 min)
Dan Carlin on how history’s villains saw themselves (Lex Fridman, 3 hr 21 min)
How Disney built its Renaissance and its empire (Acquired, 4 hr 33 min)
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*Stock prices as of Wednesday’s close. Bitcoin as of 5:08 a.m. ET; change is over the past 24 hours.
▲ CoreWeave jumped 24.7% on earnings, pushing the Nasdaq up 1.6% before Nvidia’s late slide
The $3.66 billion quarter behind it →
▲ United Airlines banned AI agents from booking, changing or servicing tickets on its site and app
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▲ GoPro warned it may not survive another year, with quarterly sales expected down about 41%
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THE OTHER 99%
▲ Scott Colom won Mississippi’s Senate race, its first Black senator since Reconstruction, after Cindy Hyde-Smith conceded
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▲ Paul McCartney is now a billionaire at 84, Forbes estimates, worth about $1.4 billion
His biggest asset: a $250 million song publisher →
▲ Ancient proteins suggest a South African cave held only female members of an extinct human relative
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▲ Silversea opened what it bills as the world’s southernmost hotel, a 150-room Antarctica stop in Chile
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
“Advice, n. The smallest current coin.”
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