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U.S. loses grip on $121 billion mobile gaming sector to China
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U.S. loses grip on $121 billion mobile gaming sector to China
In a cruel twist, China’s biggest overseas market last year was the United States.
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EU to make addictive app features easier to switch off
Official data showed “problematic” digital practices led to losses for individuals reaching �10.3 billion ($11.5 billion) a year.
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Microsoft presses Trump to scuttle ban on Chinese data center tech
At stake are imports new models of Chinese optical transceivers, which allow data to travel over fiber-optic cables within data centers.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19. As the speed of artificial intelligence development has become increasingly controversial, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is among those calling for top AI labs to "pace the frontier” in order to prioritize safety.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2026
Anthropic targets $64.4 billion IPO, nearing SpaceX’s record
By Bailey Lipschultz
At the top of the price range, Anthropic would have a market value of about $1 trillion, based on the shares outstanding listed in the filing.
A cargo ship approaches a container terminal at Lianyungang Port in Jiangsu province, China, on Oct.14.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 10, 2026
China’s trade surplus soars past $1 trillion as AI boom powers exports
The surplus highlight Beijing’s growing reliance on overseas demand to support an economy hobbled by subdued consumption and a property slump.
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is considered a key figure in effective altruism’s early days, although he now denies any link.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 10, 2026
Under fire over AI, effective altruism wants to tell its own story
By Thomas URBAIN
The movement, with close ties to the AI industry, has drawn mainstream attention and accusations of cult-like behavior and alarmism.
Anthropic will need to quell worries about risks that have loomed larger as its IPO has progressed.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 10, 2026
Anthropic IPO’s moment of truth nears as waiting period ends
The company will make the case to investors that now is the right time to go public despite last week’s swoon in AI-related stocks.
Racks of trays testing Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs), custom-made semiconductors that help develop and run AI software, in Mountain View, California, earlier this year
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 10, 2026
Google escalates Nvidia rivalry with specialized versions of AI chips
By Dina Bass
This year’s introduction of two new tensor processing units marks an acceleration in product development for Google’s chip unit.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during a keynote address at an Nvidia conference in San Jose, California, on March 16.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 10, 2026
Nvidia scandal creates risks for whole AI industry, not just CEO
By Ian King
Chipmaker’s shares slid as much as 8.8%, at one point erasing nearly $400 billion in market valuation, after Jensen Huang disclosed his infidelity.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted on Sunday that he'd had an affair and said the Nvidia board was launching an investigation.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 9, 2026
Nvidia CEO’s affair engulfs AI giant in Chinese spying probe
By Ian King
In a memo to employees, Jensen Huang left no doubt that the chip colossus was embroiled in a crisis like none before in its three-decade history.

Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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