SEOUL, November 13 (AJP) -The New York Times has identified seven potential successors to Jensen Huang at Nvidia, highlighting the challenge of replacing a founder whose technical expertise and industry relationships helped shape the AI boom. Internal possibilities include Colette Kress, Nvidia’s chief financial officer and interim CEO, and Ian Buck, a vice president credited with developing the CUDA software foundation behind its AI computing business. Kress brings operational knowledg

SEOUL, November 13 (AJP) -U.S. President Donald Trump urged Jensen Huang to fight to keep his job in a phone call Tuesday, two days before the Nvidia chief resigned amid an unfolding espionage scandal, The New York Times reported, citing two people briefed on the conversation. The call underscored Trump’s continued support for Huang, who had become a prominent ally and influential adviser on artificial intelligence. According to the newspaper, Trump maintained that backing even after U.S.

SEOUL, November 13 (AJP) -North Korea is unlikely to send another large contingent of troops to support Russia’s war against Ukraine this winter, a former senior Ukrainian official said, despite President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent warnings of a planned deployment, according to U.S.-based outlet NK News. Andrii Kovalenko, former head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, wrote on social media this week that the thre

SEOUL, November 13 (AJP) -Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have been asked to testify before the Senate Banking Committee next month as lawmakers investigate national security concerns surrounding Huang’s reported relationship with a suspected Chinese spy and exports of advanced AI chips to China. Committee Chairman Tim Scott requested separate appearances by Huang on Dec. 3 and Lutnick on Dec. 10. Huang resigned Thursday, ending his leadership o

SEOUL, November 13 (AJP) -A global Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot for tens of thousands of users across 74 countries from Thursday, with connectivity problems persisting for more than eight hours, the BBC reported. Reports of Outlook problems peaked at nearly 140,000, according to Downdetector. Microsoft said unexpectedly unavailable servers had strained its infrastructure across multiple regions and that a cyberattack was unlikely. Recovery remained uneven as the compa

SEOUL, November 13 (AJP) -Some of President Donald Trump’s top advisers are blaming Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick for the political fallout from outgoing Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s reported affair with a suspected Chinese intelligence source, The Wall Street Journal reported. Lutnick has drawn criticism over his efforts to stall chip export restrictions and his longstanding ties to Huang, according to people familiar with the discussions. The dispute extends the scandal into

SEOUL, November 13 (AJP) -U.S. envoys met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday before heading to Ireland for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Washington sought to revive stalled peace efforts, The Associated Press reported Friday. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, had brokered the first direct talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives in nine months in Abu Dhabi earlier this week. Witkoff and Zelenskyy

SEOUL, November 13 (AJP) - The United States no longer needs a deal with Iran, President Donald Trump said Thursday on Truth Social, directing Vice President JD Vance, the lead negotiator, to focus instead on alleged corruption in Democrat-run cities. “We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait,” Trump wrote, referring to the Strait of Hormuz.