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Nvidia’s hunt for Jensen Huang’s successor: insiders, rivals and a Trump pick

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Newsrooms: 14
Last 3 hours: 2 reports
Momentum: Slowing

Reports per hour, last 24 hours

How the coverage splits

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Where it’s heading

Probably peaked. Likely 15 to 16 newsrooms by 2:40pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we know

Against the past week

More newsrooms than 98% of the past week’s 4173 stories, and number 6 of 329 in Tech.

President Trump floated former Apple CEO Tim Cook as a possible successor to Jensen Huang at Nvidia Thursday.

South China Morning Post didn’t include a summary, so this is New York Post’s, from its report on the same story.³

Background: Jensen Huang

Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang is a Taiwanese and American electrical engineer and businessman. He co-founded the technology company Nvidia, one of the world's most valuable companies, and served as its president and CEO from its founding in 1993 until his resignation in 2026. As of November 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth at over $150 billion, making him the eleventh-wealthiest individual in the world.⁴

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The story so far

14 newsroomsCooling

Reports: 15
Newsrooms and sources: 14
Last 3 hours: 2
Last 24 hours

Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (2 in the last three hours, 7 in the three before).

First with it: 9to5Mac, 4 min before anyone else.

Reported by 14 newsrooms.

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How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from

Where the coverage is from

How it spread

Newsrooms: 14
Reports: 15
Over: 5.4 hr
To three newsrooms: 4 min

Newsrooms on it each counted once

Newsrooms reporting over time
Time	Newsroom	Total
2:46am AEDT	9to5Mac	1
2:50am AEDT	New York Post	2
2:50am AEDT	Business Insider	3
2:50am AEDT	The Times of India	4
2:51am AEDT	Fox Business	5
2:56am AEDT	The Independent	6
3:03am AEDT	CNA	7
3:10am AEDT	Digital Trends	8
3:16am AEDT	Tom's Hardware	9
3:21am AEDT	MacRumors	10
3:25am AEDT	The Hill	11
3:31am AEDT	Washington Examiner	12
6:51am AEDT	The Daily Caller	13
8:08am AEDT	South China Morning Post	14

When	Likely range	Most likely
Now	15	15
In 1 hours (9:40am AEDT)	15 to 15	15
In 3 hours (11:40am AEDT)	15 to 16	15
In 6 hours (2:40pm AEDT)	15 to 16	15
In 12 hours (8:40pm AEDT)	15 to 17	15
In 24 hours (8:40am AEDT)	15 to 17	16

Nvidia’s hunt for Jensen Huang’s successor: insiders, rivals and a Trump pick

Background: Jensen Huang

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Nvidia’s hunt for Jensen Huang’s successor: insiders, rivals and a Trump pick

Background: Jensen Huang

Where the coverage is from

How it spread

Newsrooms on it each counted once

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Two headlines

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