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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.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2026
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
The Nvidia CEO admitted to having an affair with a woman who could have been a Chinese spy.
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
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 with a woman confirmed to be Alice Huang in Taipei on June 7
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Nov 10, 2026
Honey traps: Sex, lies and a spy’s oldest trick
History is packed with people who found themselves ensnared by men and women tasked with winning their trust before extracting information.
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
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.
Demonstrators participate in a nationwide protest against data centers, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on July 18.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 9, 2026
Voters in U.S. reset the debate on data centers and billionaires
Building data centers in the U.S. just became more difficult, but perhaps as important, voters issued a challenge to the AI billionaires behind them.
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
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.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, delivers the keynote address at the Nvidia GTC in Berlin on Oct. 21.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 7, 2026
China’s top spy agency recruited woman who targeted Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
Alice Huang, a Chinese executive who developed a relationship with Nvidia’s leader, is believed to be an asset of the Ministry of State Security.
U.S. officials have concluded that a top executive at a Singapore-based data center company who has developed a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a Chinese intelligence asset.
WORLD
Oct 30, 2026
Nvidia chief seen as target of Chinese spy plot
An executive at a data center company who developed a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was found to be a Chinese intelligence asset.
CoreWeave's slump fueled a global rout in AI stocks, underscoring investor doubts about whether future revenue from the technology can keep pace with the spending.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2026
CoreWeave’s slump spotlights growing burden of debt behind AI boom
The loss-making cloud company has about $50 billion in debt and has become a focus of concerns that the data-center boom is being fueled by credit.
Pope Leo gives a news conference on his return flight from France on Monday.
WORLD
Sep 29, 2026
Pope Leo says concerns about AI doom scenarios are not ‘fake news’
Leo, the first U.S. pope, also directly criticized technology CEOs who argued there should be no guardrails on the technology.
World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li speaks during an AMD keynote address at the CES 2026 consumer electronics trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 5.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 29, 2026
AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs AI startup for $8.2 billion
World Labs develops AI software that can run applications in the physical world.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama speaks to the media after a meeting involving the Financial Services Agency, the Bank of Japan, the National Cybersecurity Office and top financial institutions following concerns about potential vulnerabilities linked to Anthropic's Mythos AI model in Tokyo in April.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 22, 2026
National security and the stakes of ‘technology sovereignty’
Investment in dual-use technologies is increasingly seen as an efficient way for states to acquire critical capabilities.
Protesters during a demonstration calling for a slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems outside city hall in San Francisco on Thursday.
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2026
AI’s wobbly house of cards puts markets and U.S. economy at risk
Considering the trillions of dollars that have been spent on AI bets, what happens to Wall Street if they don’t pay off?
The OpenAI offices in San Francisco on July 21, 2026. OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2026
Why it’s difficult for tech companies to rein in AI
Concerns over artificial intelligence safety are escalating at a critical moment for the AI industry.
People walk past the Huawei booth, where the Atlas 950 SuperPoD system is displayed, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 17.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 17, 2026
Huawei set to unveil China’s best answer to Nvidia AI chip reign
The company is aiming to ensure its Ascend chips can operate every single AI model, in China and beyond.
U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to extend a trade truce with China reached last year when Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the White House next week.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2026
Trump has few good options to slow China’s rise as AI superpower
The main challenge for the U.S. is keeping China at bay without prompting Beijing to further restrict rare earths.
The debate over artificial intelligence safety is looming over U.S. President Donald Trump’s upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 15, 2026
Trump’s AI defense defies voter unease heading into midterms
U.S. President Donald Trump increasingly stands alone with his rejection of tighter artificial intelligence oversight.
Yoshihisa Kainuma, chairman of Minebea Mitsumi, says the company plans to focus on ballooning orders for its ball bearings, used inside AI server fans and humanoid joints.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 15, 2026
Minebea Mitsumi pauses acquisitions to chase AI returns
The key supplier to Nintendo is eyeing climbing market forecasts for data centers and humanoid robots, and sees “unlimited” upside ahead.
"I came to like Jensen Huang's character, and bet everything on him," Shoichiro Irimajiri said in an interview.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2026
Former Sega president recalls being ‘impressed’ with Nvidia’s Huang
Shoichiro Irimajiri said he had decided to invest $5 million in Nvidia in the late 1990s because he was impressed by its CEO, Jensen Huang.
Humanoid robots work alongside employees on an automatic change dispenser assembly line at a factory for Glory in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture. The factory floor is where Japan shines when it comes to AI.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 7, 2026
Japan needs artificial intelligence its factories can plug in
今日吃瓜 competitiveness will hinge on industrial adoption of AI rather than accumulating national computing capacity.
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
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‘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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