Nvidia’s board said Thursday that founder Jensen Huang has resigned as president, chief executive and a member of the board, effective immediately, and named chief financial officer Colette Kress as interim CEO.

In a Reuters/Ipsos poll, 45% of registered Republicans rated Marco Rubio an excellent candidate and 43% said the same of JD Vance. Among registered Democrats, Jon Ossoff and Pete Buttigieg each scored 29%.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin on Thursday that Moscow wanted any Ukraine settlement to be an “eternal peace.”

Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed said in an NPR interview Thursday that he will likely swear on a Quran when he takes his Senate seat in January, though he has not yet chosen which copy.

President Donald Trump said Thursday the U.S. does not need a deal with Iran and asked Vice President JD Vance to give his “complete and total attention” to crime and corruption in Democrat-run cities and states.

A U.S. bill awaiting Senate action would let the Commerce Department regulate remote access to restricted technology. Chinese AI developers use overseas data centers to train and run models on NVIDIA chips.

Senior Ukrainian officials told the Financial Times they believed the U.S. imposed renewed Starshield speed restrictions to pressure Kyiv during peace talks with Russia, as U.S. envoys met Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday in Dublin that “without Europeans, there is no support for Ukraine” and that “there is no more U.S. support,” arguing the coalition of the willing now provides all of Kyiv’s war aid.

Iran’s Assembly of Experts said Thursday that reviewing withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, revising the defense doctrine and building “the necessary deterrence” had become an “unavoidable necessity” and a “national demand.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders told Jon Stewart the United States should pause advanced AI development and ban superintelligence, citing warnings that systems smarter than humans could slip beyond control.

Ukrainian officials told The New York Times that the Lima Quant electronic-warfare system diverted two Russian Oreshnik missiles fired toward the Kyiv region on May 24, 2026, a claim that could not be independently verified.

Roketsan CEO Murat Ikinci said Thursday that autonomous systems, integrated air and missile defense, rocket and missile propulsion, and space systems are priority areas for work with Saudi Arabia.

Navy leaders told USS George H.W. Bush families at a Nov. 9 Norfolk town hall to plan for a worst-case 12-month deployment and that the ship will miss the holidays, MS NOW said.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot will meet Thursday at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem for a diplomatic and security briefing, with military secretary Maj. Gen. Guy Markizeno present, a joint statement said.

Baykar said Thursday its AKINCI combat drone fired two ASELSAN TOLUN-P munitions under electronic jamming and scored direct hits, in a test also posted by Chairman Selçuk Bayraktar.

Sarah B. Rogers, under secretary of state for public diplomacy, valued at $11,900 her share of a November 2025 Mediterranean trip paid for by Stripe co-founder Patrick Collison, The Washington Post reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has flown government aircraft to Gainesville at least 23 times since taking office, the Washington Post reports, with flight costs exceeding $1.2 million under Defense Department rates.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that Starshield, SpaceX’s military satellite service, is again under a systematic 161 km/h speed cap, complicating the interception of Russian jet-powered drones.

China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Thursday the United States should stop fabricating a “Chinese spy” narrative as a pretext for technology restrictions, after questions about the Nvidia case.

Türkiye’s Ministry of National Defence dismissed reports it will send 15,000 troops to Somalia, saying the claims “do not reflect the truth.” It said training and advisory work there continues.