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Nvidia's chief executive Jensen Huang has stepped down following reports of an alleged affair with an individual suspected of espionage. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress will take over as interim CEO while the company — the most valuable chipmaker on the planet — navigates what is an extraordinary moment of leadership uncertainty.
The resignation lands at a particularly sensitive time for Nvidia, given how central the company is to the global AI supply chain. Any questions about who holds the wheel at Nvidia are questions the entire technology industry will be watching closely, and answers may not come quickly.
Meanwhile, on the conflict front, the International Committee of the Red Cross is sounding a stark alarm. Its president, Mirjana Spoljaric, says the organization is currently classifying the highest number of armed conflicts since the Second World War. Her message was pointed — brutality, she argued, is not an inevitable human condition, even if war sometimes is. The warning comes as pressure mounts on nations to honor the boundaries set by the nineteen forty nine Geneva Conventions, boundaries she says are under serious strain right now.
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