Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick was sent a classified memo warning about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence officials believe is a Chinese spy, multiple sources told Axios. Commerce did not comment, and it is unclear whether Lutnick read it. The New York Times reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw the memo, which circulated before Trump’s May 2026 trip to China. The Times also reported that Rubio warned Trump aboard Air Force One before a stop in Anchorage, where Huang joined the delegation. Trump said Monday he did not recall seeing the intelligence saying “Certainly, it didn’t make much of an impact on me.” Reuters reported on May 14 that Commerce cleared about 10 Chinese companies to buy Nvidia’s H200 chips, though Axios says some approvals predated the warning. Lawmakers want Huang to give closed door testimony next week.

Following the unusual movements of aircraft today from RAF Mildenhall, a joint U.S. and British airbase in the United Kingdom, with U.S. Air Force aerial-refueling tankers and other military assets being repositioned to secondary bases across Europe, a U.S. official has told The War Zone, “Enhanced force protection measures are in effect across RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall.”

UFC President and CEO Dana White commented today on U.S. President Donald J. Trump offering him the role of White House Press Secretary, saying that he was “flying to Washington right now,” and that he is set to meet with President Trump Monday. Following earlier reports from CNN, White still didn’t specify whether or not he would take on the role, but said he imagines there would be more information following his meeting with the president.

The story keeps getting crazier. To recap everything that has been reported so far: - The US intelligence community discovered that Jensen Huang, the CEO of the largest company in the world, was sleeping with Alice Huang, a Chinese spy and an executive at Megaspeed. (FT) - Multiple independent investigations have concluded that Megaspeed is likely a Chinese cutout, which helps Chinese companies access AI chips or circumvent export controls. (NYT and Bloomberg) - The US intelligence community also concluded that Alice Huang’s goal was to convince Jensen to lobby the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced AI chips. (NYT) - The intelligence community relayed this information to “a small group of top US government officials” earlier this year. (FT) - Over the last year, Jensen Huang has repeatedly lobbied the U.S. government to loosen export controls on advanced chips. @BISgov has done so, not only by permitting the export of H200 chips to China, but also not enforcing export controls that would have required a license for exports of the most advanced Blackwell chips to Megaspeed and Southeast Asia. - Although @CommerceGov leadership was presumably briefed on this information by the U.S. intelligence community, @BISgov has taken no actions to tighten controls on Megaspeed or Southeast Asia. - Megaspeed remains a preferred cloud partner of Nvidia, and continues to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips despite employing a Chinese spy who reportedly is romantically engaged with the CEO of Nvidia. - Tens of billions of dollars worth of AI chips have been exported to Southeast Asia this year alone, and Malaysia and Singapore are now two of the four largest importers of AI chips in the world. What is going on here??? We need answers. The question of who gets the most advanced AI chips in the world is literally the defining strategic question of our time. And not only does it seem like the MSS may be directly influencing the debate on export controls in the United States, but also @CommerceGov is refusing to listen to the warnings of the IC on this issue. What is a POSSIBLE good explanation for why Megaspeed is still receiving chips? Why is there not a license requirement for AI chip shipments to all of Southeast Asia? This is beyond strange at this point. The fallout from this story will be massive. Obviously, the motivations underpinning Nvidia’s policy views opposing export controls must now all be questioned. But also, how did @BISgov sit on this information and has still taken no actions? We need answers.

He said a series was ok for Veterans Day. So here it is. This is a picture i had the nurse at the kuwait hospital take for proof of life after being taken for smoke inhalation & TBI after going back into the port of Shuaiba TOC to get wounded out on March 1st.

The U.K. Office of Maritime Trade Operations is reporting an “incident” involving a bulk cargo vessel and military forces in the Gulf of Oman, approximately 18NM east of Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates. This appears to coincide with reports of U.S. and Iranian exchanges of fire tonight near the Strait of Hormuz.

Initial reports of a fire currently burning at the Port of Jask in the Hormozgan Province of Southern Iran, following possible U.S. strikes earlier on Iranian coastal areas near the Strait of Hormuz.

According to a release from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), CENTCOM forces subjected a commercial vessel in the gulf of Oman to disabling fire after it ignored warnings that it was in violation of the U.S. blockade of vessels traveling to and from Iran. Per the release, U.S. aircraft fired precision munitions at the stern of the vessel, the St, Kitts-flagged M/V Huda, after they warned the crew to evacuate the areas of the vessel that were to be targeted.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, pointing towards a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on how the Democrat takeover of Congress may effect the Iran War, appears to inadvertently suggest that the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and conflict with Iran will continue until at least January 2027.

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According to U.S. President Donald J. Trump he has offered the position of White House Press Secretary to UFC president Dana White. According to President Trump, they have also requested that he bring “assistants” in the form of actual UFC fighters, saying “we need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left.”

At least five people have been killed and about a dozen more injured in a shooting at Krakow’s Main Market Square in Poland today, according to Polish police. A gunman drove into the square, a major tourist area in the city’s historic center, and opened fire. Authorities have neutralized the shooter. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said police are investigating and that he is being updated by the interior ministry. U.S. Ambassador to Poland Tom Rose posted a statement to X saying, in part, that "America stands with Poland at this dark hour as Poland stands with her beloved citizens of Krakow. May the blessed memory of those lost today assuage the grief of those who mourn." The U.S. State Department also issued a security alert for U.S. citizens to avoid the area.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) commander Admiral Brad Cooper has directed the creation of 'Task Force Iron Gate', an internal staff of about 20 civilian and military personnel at CENTCOM Headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, to help prevent Iran from moving advanced weapons and other materials over land routes, announced today CENTCOM. The task force will coordinate with other U.S. government agencies on stopping the movement of advanced weapons systems, dual use technologies, sanctioned materials and illegal revenue across Iran’s land borders and the Caspian Sea. Adm. Cooper said it “reinforces the success of our ironclad blockade against Iran at sea” and will “further constrain Iran’s ability to finance terrorism, rebuild weapons factories, and replenish their military.” CENTCOM says the naval blockade has prevented Iran from exporting more than $25 billion in crude oil in recent months. Since the blockade began, Iran has turned to land, rail and Caspian Sea routes, according to the New York Times. They reported shipments from Russia across the Caspian Sea, trucking from Pakistan and Turkey, and Iranian efforts to export oil by rail to China.

In the weeks and months leading up to her apparent “removal” as White House Chief of Staff yesterday, Susie Wiles had grown increasingly critical of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's management of the Pentagon, the ongoing Iran War, as well as his high-profile firing of top military officers, officials with knowledge of the situation have told the Washington Post.

Jensen Huang, the CEO of the American technology and chip manufacturer Nvidia, had a close relationship with a Chinese businesswoman who was a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security, according to The New York Times citing a memo circulated last spring among top policymakers in the Trump Administration. Along with the memo, U.S. intelligence officials believe that the businesswoman, Alice Huang, was recruited to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, as part of a drive by Beijing’s top spy agency to learn more about American A.I. chips and potentially influence the company to push for its most advanced chips to be made available to China.