This is tricky. Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation into founder and CEO Jensen Huang on Sunday, after reporting that the most powerful executive in artificial intelligence was the target of a foreign intelligence operation. A committee of independent directors, working with outside counsel, will run it. Huang stays in the job, uninterrupted.

The allegation, as ABC News reported, centers on Alice Huang (no relation) an executive at Singapore-based data center firm Megaspeed, who U.S. intelligence officials determined was passing information to Beijing. The New York Times first reported the finding. Megaspeed bought more than $4.8 billion in Nvidia chips over two years and had already been investigated over alleged chip smuggling.

Huang didn’t dodge the personal part. In an internal message to employees, he admitted he had been “unfaithful” to his wife, without naming anyone, and said he remains committed to Nvidia and to U.S. national security. The board said it has no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised, and that Huang supports the review and will cooperate.

But Washington wants more. Congressional Republicans have requested a closed-door briefing, though the accounts don’t line up on the date, the committee or how many members signed on—and whether Huang shows up at all is unconfirmed. China denies the allegations. President Donald Trump waved it off, calling Huang “an honorable guy.”

So the company at the center of the AI boom is now running a probe into its own founder while he keeps running it. The board’s “no reason to believe” is doing heavy lifting until the independent directors report back—and nobody has said when that will be.

President Donald Trump marked the midterm wipeout with a Truth Social post Sunday declaring that “America took a giant step back in History with the results of the last Election,” pointing to a global market sell-off driven by a rout in U.S. tech stocks and promising his side would return “BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”

The usual post-defeat move is to moderate. Trump is doing the opposite. Hardline aide Stephen Miller starts as chief of staff Monday, Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Walters is out, and Trump has supposedly offered the press secretary job to UFC chief Dana White. The one crack came on 60 Minutes, where Trump told Ross Douthat his deportation push may have been “too tough” on long-settled immigrants, conceding it “both helped and hurt” him. Elizabeth Warren and Robert Garcia are already promising investigations, and Trump says he has ordered the Justice Department to “look into” the Democrats conducting that oversight.

So the next two years get drawn fast: a Democratic Congress with subpoena power against a White House staffed to fight rather than negotiate. But whether any of those threatened DOJ inquiries amount to anything remains to be seen.

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday evening formally tasked Gadi Eisenkot with forming the country's next government—the clearest shot yet at ending the run of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. Eisenkot, a former military chief now leading the opposition charge, gets 28 days to build a coalition, plus a possible two-week extension.

Herzog said a majority of Knesset members backed handing him the job. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the Oct. 27 election left neither bloc with a clear majority, so every route to 61 seats runs through someone Eisenkot would rather not need. Arab-led parties made historic gains, and both Ra’am and the Joint List have signaled they'd support him. But Yisrael Beytenu, a would-be coalition partner, refuses to sit with them. Netanyahu, meanwhile, has pushed unsubstantiated claims that the election was “stolen” by Arab parties, which doesn’t exactly grease the negotiation.

The alternatives are worse. Option one: a power-sharing deal with Netanyahu himself. Option two: a pact with ultra-Orthodox parties whose price is preserving the military draft exemptions Eisenkot campaigned to abolish. Pick your compromise. If he can’t close, Netanyahu gets his turn. If both fail, Israelis vote again in early spring.