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    Softbank dumps its entire Nvidia portfolio worth $5.8 billion as its CEO goes all-in on OpenAI to the tune of $30 billion

    Masayoshi Son, the 68-year-old CEO of SoftBank, has a mixed track record when it comes to massive, high-stakes investments.

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    November 11, 2025

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    Warren Buffett credits Japan’s trading houses for their ‘superior’ shareholder-friendly policies, days after the country’s stock market broke a 35-year-old record

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    ‘Markets are brutal’: China’s hedge funds flail in pre-Lunar New Year ‘quant quake’ as authorities promise more regulation

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    Korean doctors are some of the best-paid in the world. Now many are refusing to work to protest plans to make it easier to attend medical school
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    A treasure trove of allegedly leaked documents on GitHub could show the scale of Chinese hacking—including an attack on NATO’s secretary general
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    The Biden administration highlights a new alleged national security threat: Cheap cranes from China
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    Nvidia’s China sales are down to a ‘mid-single-digit percentage,’ as U.S. controls restrict exports of the $1.7 trillion chipmaker’s leading AI chips
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    Nvidia’s China sales are down to a ‘mid-single-digit percentage,’ as U.S. controls restrict exports of the $1.7 trillion chipmaker’s leading AI chips

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    The CEO of Hyundai’s electric air-taxi subsidiary thinks we’ll be flying in them by 2028—but admits batteries aren’t there yet
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    The CEO of Hyundai’s electric air-taxi subsidiary thinks we’ll be flying in them by 2028—but admits batteries aren’t there yet

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    Japan is still selling chipmaking tools to Chinese buyers, and it led to an almost 30% jump in exports to China last month
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    Japan is still selling chipmaking tools to Chinese buyers, and it led to an almost 30% jump in exports to China last month

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    The world’s biggest miner reported an almost 90% drop in net income after cheap Indonesian nickel, key for EVs, sends prices cratering
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    China shows off its COMAC C919 jet at the Singapore Airshow in challenge to Boeing’s troubled 737 Max
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    Lionel Messi takes to Chinese social media to assure fans that his decision to skip a match in Hong Kong had nothing to do with politics
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    Controversial ex-general Prabowo Subianto is likely Indonesia’s next president. Here’s what that means for Southeast Asia’s largest democracy
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    EV giant BYD is getting serious about a Mexico plant, as Chinese EV makers hope the country can be a path into the U.S.
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    EV giant BYD is getting serious about a Mexico plant, as Chinese EV makers hope the country can be a path into the U.S.

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    ‘Success breeds success’: How a 1,400-hectare plot became the hub of the global chip industry—and the world economy
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    Biden administration may restrict imports of Chinese EVs and their parts no matter where they are built
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