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Huang’s resignation has sent shockwaves through the AI industry, after revelations of extramarital affairs, including one involving a suspected Chinese spyFull report: Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEOAnalysis: Jensen Huang built an AI kingdom. Now he’s gone, will Nvidia’s ramparts be breached?The hunt is on for a new Nvidia CEO after the company head and co-founder, Jensen Huang, resigned amid multiple allegations of extramarital affairs, including one that involved an alleged Chinese spy and two with company employees.Nvidia immediately named Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, as the interim CEO. It’s possible she could stay on permanently, but the company could also name another candidate for the full-time role. Continue reading...

Cummins speaks about allegations in Usman Khawaja’s book about the 2018 ball-tampering incident‘Complete and utter nonsense’: Australia captain Pat Cummins hits back at Khawaja ‘sandpapergate’ claimsCummins says there’s a ‘proper way to do things’Cummins says he believes there was a proper way to handle the sandpaper incident, pointing to the Cricket Australia investigation shortly afterwards.There’s a very proper way to do things and improve. I think that investigation was a proper way to do it.Everyone was asked in the circumstances about a game very quickly after. So that’s for CA. I think you can maybe argue whether the judgements were fair, but what can you do? I got asked all the questions, answered them all fairly.That’s my story, so I think he’s wrong.The details really matter in that difference. So perhaps there was conversations with Cameron Bancroft around taking sandpaper out and how to do it. That doesn’t mean that everyone in that dressing room knew what was going on. Continue reading...

Defense secretary issues commendation to US army sentinel who told him and his aides to be quiet after laughter was heard at Tomb of the Unknown SoldierPete Hegseth awards medal to soldier who reprimanded himSign up for the Breaking News US emailPerhaps you saw this ad from Scott Colom, who was just elected to serve as Mississippi’s first Democratic senator since 1989:The New York Times spoke to Russ Hudson, the man who is grilling in the first part of the ad and uttered the “sheeeit” that has now become an emblem of Colom’s successful campaign. Here’s what he had to say, from the Times:The lines, he said, felt natural. He left thinking maybe a couple thousand people would see it.“I just did it like a Mississippian would,” Mr. Hudson said in an interview. Continue reading...

Huang co-founded Nvidia, alongside Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, back in 1993 — and, up until Thursday, had led the company ever since, with no clear successor in sight.

Authorities identify suspect as Matt Wade Lambert, 55, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot woundWashington DC shooting latest updatesFour people were injured and one person died after a shooting in Northwest Washington DC on Thursday morning, local police said.In a Thursday afternoon press conference, law enforcement identified the suspect as 55-year-old Matt Wade Lambert, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Continue reading...

Russian president says he would target any foreign troops sent to Ukraine and refuses to soften territorial demandsVladimir Putin warned US negotiators that Russia would target any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine, in a series of hardline remarks that came as the Ukrainian military faced renewed disruptions to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service.During the talks at the Kremlin with the US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff on Thursday, the Russian president refused to soften his territorial demands, insisting on full control over four Ukrainian regions that Moscow claims to have annexed. Continue reading...

Chris Minns’s move to address the threat of undeclared lobbying falls well short of what the commission recommended five years agoGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastA dirt file on a state minister peddled to journalists. A subterranean campaign to discredit the building commissioner. Convincing the Liberal party to unseat councillors in the Hills district who were blocking a developer.The New South Wales corruption watchdog’s recent inquiry, Rosny, revealed the ease with which the key protagonists – a group of rightwing Liberal operatives known as the Reformers, most of whom were former staffers – could move along the corridors of NSW parliament. Continue reading...

In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, that Huang has done a "fantastic job" and that there is "only one man" who should take his place, which is Tim Cook of Apple.