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Jensen Huang has resigned as president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of the AI chip giant Nvidia, effective immediately, the firm announced on Thursday, amid media reports of his alleged extramarital affairs.

Pakistan released two of former prime minister Imran Khan’s sisters from prison on Thursday, after weeks in jail ahead of a planned anti-government march by their brother’s party, their lawyer said. Uzma Khan and Noreen ‌Niazi were freed from Kot Lakhpat Jail in the eastern city of Lahore after the government suspended their detention orders, lawyer Mudassar Umar said. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said another of his sisters, Aleema Khan, remained in prison. Pakistan’s government said...

Few tech leaders are as synonymous with their companies as Jensen Huang. The Nvidia co-founder has been credited with transforming the firm over three decades from a niche graphics-chip designer into a US$4 trillion powerhouse through a series of high-stakes bets. Now, allegations of extramarital affairs with two women – alongside an internal review and a potential congressional probe – have forced Nvidia’s board to confront a once-unimaginable question: who can replace Huang when there is no...

Seven Chinese tourists, a dozen villagers and a couple of journalists forded streams and bushwhacked to the downed plane of Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese admiral. Machetes proved handy.

Indonesian police said on Thursday they have enough initial evidence to pursue treason charges against four suspects in a case involving the wiretapping of President Prabowo Subianto, as lawmakers urged detectives to uncover who ordered the ‌bugging. Former police chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo, who is not related to the president, and three other senior police officials were arrested last week over accusations of unauthorised monitoring of phones belonging to Prabowo, government officials,...

Workers at New Zealand’s largest retailer have had to resort to defecating in the distribution aisles after their bathroom breaks were tracked by artificial intelligence, their union has claimed. More than 300 employees of The Warehouse protested in Auckland and Christchurch on Thursday against technology monitoring them and taking over their jobs, The New Zealand Herald reported. In recent months, the company had been using drones for stocktaking, a robot for packing orders and AI to monitor...

Nvidia’s board of directors is facing perhaps its biggest test yet as it weighs whether to oust chief executive Jensen Huang, the man credited with transforming the chipmaker into one of the world’s most valuable companies. The board was reportedly preparing to remove Huang after reports that he had an extramarital relationship with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice-president of healthcare, who reported to him, according to The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. The latest...

South Korea should use its growing economic clout over Laos to crack down on Pyongyang’s IT workers allegedly using the Southeast Asian nation as a base to secure remote jobs under false identities and funnel earnings to their regime’s weapons programmes, according to analysts. Authorities in Seoul and Washington have launched investigations into such schemes, with analysts warning that Laos is emerging as a hub for North Korea’s operatives exploiting its weak banking networks and...

A former ByteDance artificial intelligence scientist’s new venture has released a life sciences AI model that the firm claims outperforms state-of-the-art systems, intensifying the increasingly crowded competition in AI-driven drug discovery. Geodesic Intelligence’s NovaAtom-Lite, an AI model designed to predict the structures and interactions of biomolecules, topped a third-party benchmark in several drug discovery tasks, founder Quanquan Gu said on social media on Wednesday. On the FoldBench...

A six-figure dinner bill in Japan involving Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio’s family has drawn scrutiny over her perceived lavish lifestyle, as ordinary Filipinos grapple with elevated inflation and a slowing economy. The 205,007-peso (US$3,220) tab was racked up at an upscale Tokyo restaurant in 2023 by a group of 11 people. Charged to the credit card of her lawyer-husband, Manases Carpio, the expense took centre stage on Thursday at Duterte-Carpio’s impeachment trial, which is...

Jensen Huang’s affair with a woman U.S. officials say is a Chinese spy has drawn attention to the role of intimate relationships in espionage.

Singapore has opened its national gold vault to foreign central banks, a move analysts say will sharpen its head-to-head rivalry with Hong Kong for the title of Asia’s leading bullion hub. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced that it would store gold for overseas central banks, international financial institutions and sovereign entities in its currency vault. The facility can hold 500 tonnes and has room for expansion. Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, who chairs the...