AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Novaya Gazeta was a newspaper of near-legendary status in Russia.
It was the home of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose books in the early 2000s offered a searing account of human rights abuses, wartime propaganda and corruption in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In 2006, on Putin’s birthday, Politkovskaya was shot and killed in the elevator of her apartment building.
Twenty years later, Russia is back at war and Novaya Gazeta has shut down.On Monday, the paper held its last editorial meeting. One final issue will come out in the next few weeks.
I spoke to my colleague Valerie Hopkins, who was there to witness the journalists packing up their offices. But first, the latest twist in the Nvidia scandal: Jensen Huang has resigned.
ImageCredit...Gonzalo Fuentes/ReutersNvidia’s chief resigns after affairsJensen Huang, the co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia, resigned on Thursday, capping the swift, stunning fall of one of the most powerful figures in the A.I. boom. He had extramarital affairs with a woman who U.S. intelligence agencies concluded was spying for China, and with an executive who reported to him.
Colette Kress, Nvidia’s chief financial officer, will serve as interim chief executive while the search for a permanent chief executive is carried out. Nvidia shares dropped as much as 14 percent, extending a decline that has wiped out more than $1 trillion from its market capitalization in the last month.
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