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Keio University President Kohei Ito (left) and OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon sign a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 10, 2025
Keio and OpenAI sign MOU on integration of AI into university
The maker of ChatGPT will work closely with the ÐÔÊÓ½çese institution on a range of projects.
SpaceX is targeting a valuation of about $1.5 trillion for the entire company in a planned initial public offering, which would leave it near the market value that Saudi Aramco established during its record 2019 listing.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 10, 2025
SpaceX to pursue 2026 IPO raising far above $30 billion
Such a transaction would make it the biggest listing of all time, exceeding the $29 billion that Saudi Aramco raised in 2019.
A man walks outside Tencent's headquarters in the Nanshan district of Shenzhen, China, in September 2022. Long a passive investor in successful game companies, Tencent has become more assertive in steering its acquisitions.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Dec 10, 2025
Tencent goes hands-on to reshape $10 billion global games empire
By building on its signature dealmaking to actively share expertise and resources, it has built a gaming behemoth that generated $10 billion in revenue over the past year.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on April 30.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Dec 10, 2025
Trump¡¯s reprieve for Nvidia¡¯s H200 spurred by Huawei¡¯s AI gains
The U.S. president concluded the move carried a lower security risk because Huawei already offers AI systems with comparable performance.
Jensen Huang, president and chief executive of Nvidia, delivers a keynote address during the Nvidia GTC conference in Washington on Oct. 28.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 9, 2025
U.S. to allow Nvidia H200 chip shipments to China, Trump says
The U.S. government will collect a 25% fee on such sales, an approach the U.S. president says will apply to other AI chipmakers.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police stations receive around 4.4 million lost items annually.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 9, 2025
Tokyo startup envisions a world where nothing stays lost
Find Inc. is a Tokyo-based startup that provides a cloud service dedicated to lost items.
The European Commission on Friday imposed a €120 million penalty on Elon Musk's X for breaching European Union online content rules.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 6, 2025
Europe continues Big Tech crackdown with X fine in defiance of Trump
Europe is forging ahead with its crackdown on Big Tech, levying fines on Alphabet's Google and Elon Musk's X and opening new investigations, asserting its sovereign right to enforce its laws in defiance of U.S. President Donald Trump.

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