While the Japanese investment giant recently overtook Toyota Motor as Japan’s most valuable company, there are market concerns over SoftBank’s high-risk bets on AI, even as its share price has risen about 70% year-to-date on investor enthusiasm over the new technology.
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Justina Lee,
CNBC,
4 June 2026
One of the faster-moving CMEs overtook and absorbed a second CME (hence the cannibal term) and is expected to strike Earth's outer atmosphere Thursday night.
The sale on Monday far outstripped those, no doubt due to the truly top material in the sale, including what Christie’s called the largest Pollock drip painting still in private hands.
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Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
18 May 2026
Demand outstripped supply by more than 20 times before the roadshow finished.
Lemieux galloped across the Forum, diving as his teammates embraced him.
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Dan Robson,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
The estate is best known as one of the homes of Thunder, the iconic Arabian horses that have galloped down the sidelines after every Denver Broncos home touchdown.
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Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
27 May 2026
The rock was streaked in a range of colors—red, green, purple, and blue—flecked with poppy-seed-like dots and decorated with what the Perseverance scientists compared to dull yellow leopard spots.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
1 June 2026
On court, Osaka wore a blue-and-green Nike dress streaked with vertical ruffles.
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