ECB chief economist Philip Lane is spotlighting tokenization and artificial intelligence at the 2026 ECB Forum on Central Banking in Sintra, Portugal, with sessions on digital money, unified ledgers, …
S&P Global Ratings reported that South Korea's corporate earnings are increasingly dependent on semiconductors, with an AI-driven memory supercycle expected to extend through 2028. The combined operat…
JPMorgan raised its 12-month target for South Korea's Kospi index to 12,500, keeping the country as its top Asia equity pick, citing AI-driven earnings that outweigh foreign selling and volatility. Th…
South Korea's top economic policymaker Kim Yong-beom warned that the AI-driven semiconductor boom could inflate housing prices as excess liquidity flows into real estate, urging a normalization of pro…
Institutional backlash against AI is mounting across public sector, media, and education, with New York City council members urging a classroom AI pause and a German newsroom caught using AI to write …
A Bank of Korea report reveals that despite 51.8% of South Korean workers using generative AI, productivity has not improved meaningfully over three years. The study identifies four reasons for the di…
South Korea's AI chip boom is driving massive bonuses at SK hynix and Samsung, with average payouts potentially reaching $900,000 per employee by 2027, prompting the Bank of Korea to warn that semicon…
The Bank of Korea held its benchmark interest rate at 2.50% for the eighth consecutive meeting while upgrading its 2026 growth forecast to 2.6% and inflation forecast to 2.7%, driven by an AI-fueled s…
Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun Song stated that the artificial intelligence boom is offsetting the economic drag from the Iran conflict, with the KOSPI index rising approximately 4% from pre-war lev…