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Asia stocks tumble amid AI jitters on Wall St; KOSPI plunges 5% - Investing.com
business 2026/02/02 04:12:08

Asia stocks tumble amid AI jitters on Wall St; KOSPI plunges 5% - Investing.com

Asia stocks tumble amid AI jitters on Wall St; KOSPI plunges 5%

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Bitcoin holds below $80,000 as January prediction contracts miss liquidation-driven slide: Asia Morning Briefing - CoinDesk
business 2026/02/02 02:38:58

Bitcoin holds below $80,000 as January prediction contracts miss liquidation-driven slide: Asia Morning Briefing - CoinDesk

Options markets signaled rising tail risk as liquidations mounted, but January prediction odds adjusted slowly as bitcoin volatility unfolded.

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Trump family crypto firm sold major stake to UAE investment firm - The Washington Post
business 2026/02/02 02:35:36

Trump family crypto firm sold major stake to UAE investment firm - The Washington Post

The investment, worth a reported $500 million, gave Emirati-backed investors a 49 percent stake in World Liberty Financial, a Trump crypto company.

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Nvidia’s not investing $100 billion in OpenAI because the chip designer doesn’t want to pay the OpenAI valuation tax - Sherwood News
business 2026/02/02 01:52:35

Nvidia’s not investing $100 billion in OpenAI because the chip designer doesn’t want to pay the OpenAI valuation tax - Sherwood News

The upshot of the WSJ report on Nvidia’s relationship with OpenAI is that the former wants you to know they’re not going to be dependent on the latter.

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Oracle to Raise Up to $50 Billion in 2026 for Cloud Buildup - Bloomberg.com
business 2026/02/02 01:50:00

Oracle to Raise Up to $50 Billion in 2026 for Cloud Buildup - Bloomberg.com

Oracle Corp. plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion this year through a combination of debt and equity sales to build additional cloud infrastructure capacity, reflecting the scale of financing needed to feed AI’s growth.

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Disney is Close to Picking Parks Chief D’Amaro as Next CEO - Bloomberg
business 2026/02/02 01:31:00

Disney is Close to Picking Parks Chief D’Amaro as Next CEO - Bloomberg

The board of Walt Disney Co. is aligning on promoting theme-park division chairman Josh D’Amaro to the role of chief executive officer and will vote on naming a new leader in the coming week, according to people familiar with the matter.

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