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1. China manufacturing activity expands for the first time since March, beating expectations

2. Fed minutes show officials were in tight split over December rate cut

3. China to restrict silver exports, echoing rare earths playbook

4. SoftBank has fully funded $40 billion investment in OpenAI, sources tell CNBC

5. Asia-Pacific markets fall in year-end trade; investors parse China manufacturing data

6. Elon Musk envisions humanoid robots everywhere. China may be the first to make it a reality

7. China EVs in 2026 look less like a boom and more like a survival test as global expansion ramps up

8. He has been walking around the world for the last 27 years—Here’s the no. 1 lesson he learned about happiness

9. From data center spas to servers in space: How the energy crunch is reshaping cloud computing

10. We asked a humanoid robot if there is an AI bubble. Here's what it said

11. Copper on pace for best year since 2009 as AI demand, supply fears fuel record price rally

12. A Swedish city is being moved — building by building — amid Europe’s minerals push

13. I've studied hundreds of highly successful kids: This popular parenting style worries me—what we should be focusing on instead

14. Silver rebounds 10% from worst day in 4 years as metal's roller-coaster end to a big year continues

15. U.S. sanctions Iranian, Venezuelan groups tied to weapons trade

16. Russia and Ukraine trade barbs over alleged drone attack on Putin residence

17. Eurostar warns of ‘major disruption’ as power outage halts services between France and England

18. Novo Nordisk's 'long game' on weight loss drugs sparks hope in science, but the Street is impatient

19. Mining stocks jump as precious metals recover; European shares hit record as 2025 draws to a close

20. UK's Octopus Energy to spinoff AI unit Kraken at $8.65 billion valuation