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CNBC: 30 mins ago
Unsealed documents detail a US operation that stopped the alleged smuggling of $160M worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China between Oct. 2024 and May 2025
The Information: 2 hours ago
Sources: Uber is in talks to acquire the parking space reservation app SpotHero; the parking app was last valued at $290M
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: 3½ hours ago
Trump Media, owner of Truth Social, plans to distribute a new token to shareholders with partner Crypto.com, expected to operate on the Cronos blockchain
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Wall Street Journal:
How Manus distanced itself from its Chinese roots to court US investors; a source says Meta's $2.5B deal includes a $500M retention pool for Manus' employees
Reuters:
Sources: Nvidia has approached TSMC to ramp up H200 chip production; Chinese companies have placed orders for 2M+ H200 chips for 2026, while Nvidia holds 700K
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Wency Chen / South China Morning Post:
Sources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Trump Media, owner of Truth Social, plans to distribute a new token to shareholders with partner Crypto.com, expected to operate on the Cronos blockchain
Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI financial data: its stock-based pay averaged ~$1.5M per employee in 2025, ~7x Google pre-IPO and ~34x the average pay of other pre-IPO peers, per Equilar
Essi Lehto / Reuters:
Finland seizes a ship suspected of damaging an undersea cable linking Helsinki and Estonia in the Gulf of Finland; Estonia says a second cable was also damaged
The Information:
Sources: Uber is in talks to acquire the parking space reservation app SpotHero; the parking app was last valued at $290M
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries
Alice French / Bloomberg:
Japanese NAND flash memory maker Kioxia is up 500%+ in 2025 so far, outperforming all other MSCI World Index members, after its Tokyo IPO debut in December 2024
Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg:
Chinese AI firms are leading a wave of IPOs in Hong Kong, where at least 25 companies debuted in December 2025, the busiest month for deals since November 2019
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says xAI bought a third building called “MACROHARDRR”, reportedly adjacent to Colossus 2, that will take the company's training compute to almost 2GW
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: bids for GroqCloud, Groq's AI inference platform, are expected to exceed $1B after Nvidia's $20B non-exclusive licensing agreement with Groq
Reuters:
Filing: China's top DRAM maker CXMT plans to raise $4.2B in a Shanghai IPO; CXMT held a 4% global share in Q2 2025 and targets HBM production by the end of 2026
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:
Data storage stocks led the S&P 500 in 2025, with SanDisk up 560%+ to become the top performer, followed by Western Digital in second and Seagate in fourth
Bob Tita / Wall Street Journal:
How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar's power and energy unit; generator sales are up 28% YoY through Sept. 2025, after growing 22% to $7.8B in 2024
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