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Nick Martell

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Nick Martell hosts and writes The Best One Yet . They have also been a guest on Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger and The Hustle Daily Show .

Recently: “🥸 “Whiskey Business” — Nvidia’s Chinese spy. Hershey’s flavor change. NYC’s $150M Marathon. +Pop-Biz Halloween Contest” on The Best One Yet (October 2026); “🍰 “Golden $CAKE” — Cheesecake Factory’s moment. WNBA’s 9am Final. Anthropic’s 1-person startup. +Halloween Purple” on The Best One Yet (October 2026); “💁‍♀️ “AI For Moms” — Dazzle’s FemmeBot. DoorDash’s Instacart haul. Royal Caribbean’s Panama Canal. +Octo-bull” on The Best One Yet (October 2026); “🐜 “ANTsy” — Anthropic’s IPO files. Candy Corn’s Copier. Chief of Staffs’ surge. +Bahston Ahccent” on The Best One Yet (October 2026); “🏀 “No Rings Attached” — The Knicks’ phishing debacle. Warhound’s $1B super-puppy. Country Clubs’ fun-pivot. +Pop-Biz Costumes” on The Best One Yet (October 2026); “🧹 “Don’t make the bed” — Airbnb’s chore ban. Zuck’s California empire. Skullcandy’s fighter brand. +Baby-Free airline” on The Best One Yet (October 2026).

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“Forget cocaine, Egyptian artifacts, or exotic Brazilian fruit. The top contraband in America right now is computer chips.” — Nick Martell, The Best One Yet

Opening a story about a report linking Nvidia's CEO to a woman US officials reportedly believe is a Chinese intelligence asset connected to suspected GPU smuggling. The line sets up the chip-smuggling backdrop.

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for our first story. According to New York Times reporting, one of Jensen Wong's business contacts is a Chinese spy. It's

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corporate espionage and it's bigger than at any time since the Cold War.

Nick Martell

All right, Yetis, forget cocaine, Egyptian artifacts, or exotic Brazilian fruit. The top contraband in America right now is computer chips

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because the biggest AI policy of the Biden administration was preventing China from using our most advanced chips. And

Nick Martell

everything you're about to hear sounds like it's from a Netflix screenplay. And

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scene one is Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company suspected of buying NVIDIA GPUs and then smuggling them to China like they were Cuban cigars. So

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