Nvidia’s Investable Chips, the VA Governor, & AI Gone Rogue 8/11/26

Nvidia is taking in $500 billion in new financing from major Wall Street firms (cnbc.com/2026/08/10/nvidia-wall-street-asset-m…) as CEO Jensen Huang touts chips as the next “investable asset.” Former senior White House policy advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan discusses America’s tech race with China and the next opportunities in artificial intelligence, including in cyber security (cnbc.com/2026/08/08/hugging-face-ai-hack-cyber…). CNBC’s Dan Murphy reports on the new normal in the Strait of Hormuz, a Tesla-SpaceX merger could fast-track Elon Musk’s pay package, and a Staten Island judge has ordered an emergency pause on Mayor Mamdani’s new pied-a-terre tax. Plus, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger is intervening in the sale of Dominion Energy (cnbc.com/2026/08/06/virginia-governor-nextera-…) to an out-of-state company. The moderate democrat discusses Virginia’s business ecosystem and the primaries underway in multiple states (cnbc.com/2026/08/11/minnesota-wisconsin-primar…) across the country.

Dan Murphy - 04:22

Gov. Abigail Spanberger - 15:06

Sriram Krishnan - 31:53

In this episode:

Abigail Spanberger, @GovernorVA (x.com/GovernorVA)

Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick (x.com/BeckyQuick)

Andrew Ross Sorkin,@andrewrsorkin (twitter.com/andrewrsorkin)

Melissa Lee, @MelissaLeeCNBC (x.com/MelissaLeeCNBC)

Dan Murphy,@dan_murphy (x.com/dan_murphy?lang=en)

Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie (x.com/Kramer_Katie)

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