The Front

Jensen Huang’s future at the multibillion-dollar company he co-founded is hanging in the balance after alleged affairs with an employee and a woman American officials believe is a Chinese spy. But the so-called honey trap is a lesson for boardrooms in Australia and around the world.
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Nvidia is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang ‘had affair with staffer’; Republicans set to subpoena Nvidia boss
Nvidia Chinese spy scandal puts $6bn of Australian retirement savings at risk
Jensen Huang’s ousting could leave Firmus and other neocloud side bets out in the cold
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Joshua Burton. Our team includes Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack, and Jasper Leak, who also composed our theme.
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Australian test cricket captain Pat Cummins will on Friday address allegations made by his former teammate Usman Khawaja about a notorious ball-tampering saga on Friday.
Plus, The Australian reveals plans to save David Jones were drawn up months ago.
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Pat Cummins to front media over Usman Khawaja’s ‘long, full list’ of ball-tampering claims
Pat Cummins in tense exchange with wife Becky amid fallout from Usman Khawaja claims
‘It didn’t’: Mitchell Starc rejects Usman Khawaja ball-tampering claims in new book
Landlords rebuffed plan to save David Jones through staged closures
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After fighting all the way to the UK’s High Court to protect his identity and warning he was suicidal, the world’s most successful living children’s author and wildly popular entertainer David Walliams has lost his legal bid to silence the media. In this episode of The Front, host Claire Harvey and The Australian’s literary editor Caroline Overington break down the lifting of reporting restrictions, the explosive allegations of predatory behavior that followed, and the wider cultural reckoning that has stemmed from his dumping by publisher HarperCollins and hot mic disaster on Britain’s Got Talent.
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Crude jokes and TV winks: David Walliams’ circle of enablers
Ice cream and wildly inappropriate jokes: my day with David Walliams
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Jasper Leak and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, and Joshua Burton.
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David Jones has announced the closure of 19 stores and the shedding of thousands of jobs as FTI Consulting attempts to navigate the retailer's difficulties. Also in The Front’s afternoon headlines, documents from Anthropic reveal federal government plans to consider an AI copyright 'opt out' model for Australian creators.
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David Jones to close 19 stores, thousands of jobs axed
David Jones collapse signals wider retail crisis as changing consumer habits hit stores
Anthropic reveals plan to compromise creator copyright for AI
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Usman Khawaja has re-opened Australian cricket's deepest wound, revealing in his new autobiography Sabr that the entire team knew about the 2018 Sandpaper-gate ball-tampering plot in Cape Town. With former teammate David Warner publicly endorsing his claims and fresh pressure mounting on current test captain Pat Cummins, does Australian cricket finally have to face a complete investigation?
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Every other bombshell in Khawaja’s book Sabr
Damning silence as the building burns down: Andrew Webster comment
Why Cricket Australia is holding the line
This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Jasper Leak and edited by Tiffany Dimmack. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou and Joshua Burton.
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