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Japan’s Mitsubishi to acquire shale gas assets in U.S. for $7.5 billion
Signage outside the Mitsubishi Corp. head office in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. Mitsubishi agreed to buy Aethon Energy Management LLC's US gas and pipeline assets for $5.2 billion, the biggest purchase by a Japanese company…
TSMC’s Arizona chip expansion isn’t done after U.S. investment: CFO
U.S. President Donald Trump (right) and C.C. Wei, chief executive officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (left), shake hands during an announcement of an additional $100 billion into TSMC's U.S. manufacturing at the White…
India’s exports to China surge in December, shipments to U.S. decline
Aerial view of cargo ship and cargo container in harbor.Adoff 01 / 500px | 500px | Getty ImagesIndia's exports to China soared in December while shipments to the U.S. declined as President Donald Trump's steep tariffs prompt New Delhi to…
Asia markets trade mixed after Wall Street rallies
The city skyline is seen with the landmark Taipei 101 building from a lookout point on Elephant Mountain in Taipei on April 14, 2025. (Photo by I-Hwa Cheng / AFP) (Photo by I-HWA CHENG/AFP via Getty Images) I-hwa Cheng | Afp |…
TSMC earnings draw investors’ eyes back to AI
A man walks past a TSMC logo at Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan April 15, 2025. Ann Wang | Reuters
Thursday offered markets a rare respite from nonstop geopolitical upheaval. Yet the week's headlines still reflected larger…
AI is taking over core operations of Indian IT companies
This report is from this week's CNBC's "Inside India" newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse. Subscribe here.Millions of techies and engineers who have built India's…
China just ‘months’ behind U.S. AI models, Google DeepMind CEO says
China's artificial intelligence models may be just "a matter of months" behind U.S. and Western capabilities, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind told CNBC.The assessment from the head of one of the world's leading AI labs and a…
Australia’s social media ban for teens, how it’s going
A notification on the Instagram app on a smartphone arranged in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIt's been a month since Australia banned under-16s from social media platforms, and some…
Automakers Ford and GM jump into energy storage, competing with Tesla
U.S. automakers are increasingly entering the energy storage business as they pivot away from electric vehicles and try make use of battery factories that cost billions of dollars.Energy storage uses a lot of the same underlying…
This former U.S. special forces officer raised $22 million for his startup
Gene Yu is the co-founder and CEO of Blackpanda.Courtesy of Gene YuAt age 46, startup founder Gene Yu seems to have lived several lives in one.Before he started his own company, he was a Division 1 tennis player, graduated with a…