Bytes: Week in Review – Wikipedia urges AI companies to pay for its data, again

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This week we learned the Japanese investment firm Softbank sold all of its stake in the juggernaut chipmaker Nvidia. We'll get into why on today's “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” Plus, Apple is reportedly pushing back the release of its thinnest iPhone, the Air, and Wikipedia is asking AI companies, once again, to pay for scraping its data.

But first, back to that big move by Softbank and its CEO, Masayoshi Son. It cashed out its stake in Nvidia in October, the same month that the chipmaker hit a $5 trillion valuation. The $5.8 billion it netted will be redirected to OpenAI, part of a promised $30 billion to be invested in the maker of ChatGPT.

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Anita Ramaswamy, columnist at The Information, about what all this means.

SoftBank Sells Its Nvidia Stake for $5.8 Billion to Fund OpenAI Bet - The Wall Street Journal

SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion - CNBC

Apple Delays Release of Next iPhone Air Amid Weak Sales - The Information

iPhone Air Sales Are So Bad That Apple's Delaying the Next-Generation Version - MacRumors

Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping - TechCrunch

In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable - the Wikimedia Foundation

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0:51.9	This week, we learned the Japanese investment firm Soft soft bank sold all of its stake in the
0:58.0	juggernaut chipmaker and Vida. We'll get into why on today's Marketplace TechBites week in review.
1:04.4	Plus, Apple is reportedly pushing back the release of its thinnest iPhone, The Air. And Wikipedia is asking AI companies, once again,
1:14.5	to kindly pay for scraping its data. But first, back to that big move by SoftBank. It cashed out
1:21.2	its stake in Nvidia in October the same month that the chipmaker hit a $5 trillion valuation.
1:27.3	The $5.8 billion it netted will be
1:30.2	redirected to Open AI, according to CEO Masayashi-Song, part of a promised $30 billion investment
1:37.8	in the maker of ChatGPT. We spoke with Anita Ramoswamy, columnist at the information about what
1:43.7	all this means.
1:45.3	They've committed $30 billion that was earlier this year, and they said they would put that money into Open AI by the end of December.
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