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What stands out

CNBC's Squawk Pod led with Jensen Huang pitching chips as the next "investable asset" while Nvidia lines up roughly $500 billion in new financing, a reminder institutional capital is treating hardware like a standalone allocation. Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger stepping into the Dominion Energy sale shows how state politics can slow or reshape corporate deals even as money floods tech. Add talk of a Tesla-SpaceX merger to accelerate an executive pay package, and you get a rare collision of capital markets, public-interest politics, and corporate governance across three very different businesses.