Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
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Chinese chipmaker Hygon calls off merger with top shareholder
Shares fall as companies blame 'market environment' for change of plan
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Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May
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Nintendo's shares slid as much as 4.7% on December 10 to their lowest level since May, amid concerns that rising memory chip prices will erode its profit (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/nintendo-sheds-14-billion-value-after-chip-squeeze-fears-grow
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Nintendo
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Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a "lower level" since the start of age checks; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M in mid-August and now stand at 900K (The Guardian)
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UK porn traffic down since beginning of age checks but VPN use up, says Ofcom
Visitor numbers to UK’s 10 most-visited services have settled at a β€˜lower level’ than before 25 July, report finds
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Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a “lower level” than before age checks began; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M+ in mid-August and now stand at 900K
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Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M+ people was compromised (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/coupang-ceo-resigns-after-south-korea-s-largest-ever-data-breach
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Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea
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Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-builds-location-verification-tech-that-could-help-fight-chip-smuggling-2025-12-10/
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Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in
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Microsoft Research, Providence, and UW develop the GigaTIME AI model, aiming to perform tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods (Lisa Stiffler/GeekWire)
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Microsoft, Providence and UW create AI that unlocks tumor insights at a scale previously out of reach
Tech and cancer researchers are publicly releasing an AI tool that can perform sophisticated tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of e...
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Microsoft Research, Providence, and UW develop the GigaTIME AI model, which they say can analyze tumors in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods
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Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho opened up 54% in its stock market debut, giving the company a ~$8.4B market cap after raising ~$603M in its India IPO (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/meesho-to-debut-after-603-million-ipo-as-india-deals-hit-record
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Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho
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DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped and humanoid robots, raised a $70M Series C to expand R&D and production capacity (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
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China’s Deep Robotics raises US$70 million as sector draws more investors
Company founder Zhu Qiuguo says the new funding would be used for research and the recruitment of top robotics talent.
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DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped robot dogs and humanoid robots, raised a ~$70M Series C to expand R&D and recruit robotics talent
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Stellantis partners with Estonian ride-hailing service Bolt, which serves 200M+ riders, to test Level 4 driverless vans across Europe in 2026 (Romolo Tosiani/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-partners-with-bolt-2026-driverless-ride-hailing-trials-europe-2025-12-09/
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Stellantis partners with Estonia-based ride-hailing service Bolt, which serves 200M+ riders in 50+ countries, to test Level 4 driverless vans in Europe in 2026
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Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-09/the-ai-boom-is-absorbing-everything
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Boom modifying its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of some key industrial input being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain
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