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TREE NEWS reports: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump held a phone call over the weekend on the Iran issue that was unusually difficult and acrimonious, with one source describing it as “a hellish argument,” Israeli media reported on the 11th, citing unnamed sources. Netanyahu’s office denied reports that the two leaders had a fierce quarrel.

TREE NEWS reports: The Bloomberg Dollar Index rose about 0.4% on the day to 1,232.23 points, its highest level since May 2025. The move marks a fresh multi-month high for the gauge, which tracks the greenback against a basket of major currencies.

TREE NEWS update: Shenzhen-listed memory maker Demingli said on the evening of Nov. 11 that it does not currently serve the humanoid robot sector, responding to an investor question on an interactive platform. The company said its products — solid-state drives, embedded storage, memory modules and portable storage — are used in data centers, phones, automotive electronics, tablets and security monitoring. It said it will track storage demand in humanoid robots as a long-term trend.

TREE NEWS update: Supermicro announced that its H15 server product portfolio has begun shipping. The company disclosed the start of shipments for the H15 lineup in a statement, marking the hardware’s move from announcement to commercial availability. No pricing, volume or customer details were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Yichun City convened a farmland protection work advancement meeting on November 9. The meeting emphasized that farmland protection is a top national priority, calling for improved political commitment, balanced coordination between farmland protection and economic and social development, and the completion of key tasks. It also stressed stabilizing inflows and controlling outflows, steadily optimizing farmland structure, and strictly enforcing the farmland protection responsibility assessment.

TREE NEWS update: Ni Runfeng, former Party secretary and chairman of the board of Sichuan Changhong Electronic Group, died of illness at Mianyang Central Hospital at 15:55 on November 11, 2026, at the age of 82. A member of the Communist Party of China, Ni held the top posts at the state-owned electronics group.

TREE NEWS update: Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining said the city will strengthen overall planning, systematic implementation and institutional solutions to improve its business environment, calling it a key reflection of Shanghai’s core competitiveness. During a research visit on Tuesday afternoon, Chen urged greater efforts on key tasks and integrated public services to build a market-oriented, law-based and internationalized first-class business environment.

TREE NEWS update: Deutsche Bank has launched crypto custody services for corporate and institutional clients, allowing them to store and transfer Bitcoin, Ether and select stablecoins. The bank manages clients’ wallets and private keys as part of the offering.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic’s planned IPO has drawn subscription demand several times the available shares, with the company targeting a $1.4 trillion valuation. Ahead of the listing, Anthropic placed an additional $11.4 billion order for computing capacity. US premarket trading saw AI-linked stocks rally, with CoreWeave up 17% and Nvidia up 5%.

TREE NEWS update: Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who heads Russia’s negotiating delegation, said peace appears closer following talks in Abu Dhabi, Interfax reported. Medinsky gave no further details on the substance of the discussions or any timeline. The comment is the first public signal from the Russian side on progress after the Abu Dhabi round.

TREE NEWS update: China’s retail ceiling prices for gasoline and diesel are set to be cut at 24:00 on Nov 12, ending a run of increases and marking the first decline since late August. The adjustment follows a sharp drop in international crude prices since early November as geopolitical risk premiums unwound. Under the pricing mechanism, maximum retail fuel prices are reviewed every 10 working days against a basket of international crude averages.

TREE NEWS reports: Baird downgraded Nvidia to Neutral and Morgan Stanley removed the chipmaker from its top-picks list after CEO Jensen Huang disclosed a probe in an internal memo to staff. Baird analyst Tristan Gerra cut his price target to $200 from $500, citing uncertainty over potential U.S. government action, an upcoming congressional hearing and Huang’s tenure. Morgan Stanley’s Joseph Moore said short-term uncertainty will persist given Huang’s importance to Nvidia’s strategy.

TREE NEWS reports: The dollar climbed 0.5% against the yen on an intraday basis, with USD/JPY trading at 159.53. The move extends the greenback’s advance versus the Japanese currency.

TREE NEWS update: The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is considering whether to revoke the United States’ measles-free status after a surge in cases. PAHO has asked all 35 member states in the Americas to submit national measles reports for review by an expert committee, which will make recommendations to the PAHO annual meeting being held in the US. PAHO Director Jarbas Barbosa will make the final decision and notify affected members.

TREE NEWS update: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on 11 December in Denmark that he had received a report from Ukraine’s delegation on the outcome of talks between Ukrainian, US and Russian representatives in the UAE, as well as on Ukraine’s coordination with European partners. The talks in Abu Dhabi reached consensus on preparing a new prisoner-of-war exchange, Zelensky said.

TREE NEWS reports: A non-invasive brain-computer interface demonstration center in Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei electronics district has drawn over 60% overseas visitors and buyers since opening less than a month ago. The center receives 600 to 800 visitors daily, with weekend foot traffic exceeding 1,000, and some entrepreneurs have placed bulk orders for the products on the spot.

TREE NEWS update: Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Notre Dame have set a world record for quantum-well LED optical switch performance. Their gallium nitride micro-LED achieved a modulation bandwidth of 2.75 GHz at just 25 milliwatts of power, offering a low-energy alternative to lasers for short-reach data-center optical interconnects. The 5-micron device, detailed in IEEE Electron Device Letters, targets the roughly 90% of data-center traffic that travels less than 10 meters.

TREE NEWS update: Shi Yunfeng, head of ByteDance’s AI chip and DPU teams, has submitted his resignation and is serving out his notice period. Shi joined ByteDance in 2018 after stints at MediaTek, Marvell and Huaxintong, and reported to Yang Zhenyuan, vice president and head of Volcano Engine. ByteDance’s AI chip team has pursued a Google TPU-style pure ASIC architecture; its chip completed tape-out in 2026 but underperformed expectations, and the team is now developing the next generation.

TREE NEWS update: Xixuan Chuangzhi Technology (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. has completed a 500 million yuan angel funding round led jointly by GGV Capital and Matrix Partners China. The company, founded in May 2026 by GPU maker Muxi and humanoid robotics firm UBTech, is building an independently controllable embodied-intelligence computing platform based on a domestic GPGPU architecture, targeting NVIDIA Thor as its benchmark. Proceeds will fund core chip and platform R&D, software toolchain development, team expansion and joint validation with robot makers.