South Korean Prime Minister Han Seong-sook met Bill Gates, chairman of TerraPower, in Seoul on Friday to discuss cooperation on small modular reactors and energy solutions for the artificial intellige…
The White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy released a report on Thursday identifying South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the European Union, and dozens of other economies as facing 'elevated' tr…
President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday called for a swift overhaul of South Korea's conscription system to introduce a 'selective voluntary enlistment system' that retains universal service while expandi…
South Korea's finance ministry announced plans to ease regulations, including administrative procedures, to support three megaprojects centered on semiconductors and artificial intelligence facilities…
Kazakhstan and South Korea will launch a dual-degree bachelor's program in Information Security and Artificial Intelligence (6B06107), following an agreement between Almaty University of Humanities an…
President Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday that South Korea should identify and nurture seven future industries as new growth engines and strategic national assets, including small modular reactors, nucle…
OpenAI expanded its ChatGPT Ads test to the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea on August 11, following the initial U.S. launch on February 9. The ads appear below responses for free…
South Korean lawmakers proposed a bill to criminalize AI-generated pornography featuring fictional characters after a court in Goyang acquitted a man accused of distributing deepfake images in a Teleg…
South Korea's exports rose 45.3 percent year-on-year to $21.3 billion in the first 10 days of August, the highest ever for the period, driven by a 155.4 percent surge in chip exports to $9.95 billion …
Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) raised its 2026 economic growth forecast to 4.5-5.5% from 2-4%, citing an accelerating global AI investment boom. The economy expanded 6.1% year-on-yea…
Stripe data shows AI companies are expanding globally, with the 100 largest reaching 120 markets on average by their third year and drawing 48% of revenue from outside their home markets. Mexico led g…
South Korea announced the creation of the Future Response Fund on July 5, a vehicle that will channel surplus semiconductor tax revenues into chips, physical AI, and AI data centers, as part of a broa…
Malaysia is seeking to deepen economic ties with South Korea in semiconductors, AI, electric vehicles, renewable energy, and the halal sector, according to Malaysian Investment Development Authority (…
South Korea's semiconductor sector is driving economic recovery, with investment in semiconductor manufacturing equipment surging 75.9% in May, according to the Korea Development Institute's July Econ…
South Korea is restructuring its workforce as top students shift from law and medicine to electrical engineering and materials science, driven by the AI chip boom and HBM demand, with pay gaps reversi…
A 24-year-old hedge fund manager known as "AI Jesus" lost 78% of his $45 billion fund in six days after secret 5x leverage triggered margin calls, according to George Hahn on The Prof G Pod. The colla…
The United States imposed fresh tariffs on 60 economies, including China, Japan, South Korea, India and European Union member states, on June 24, hours before a temporary 10 per cent blanket levy was …
President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea returned home Sunday after a five-nation trip that included meetings with U.S. tech leaders such as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and summits with leaders of Brazil, C…
A June 2026 survey found that about 7 in 10 Americans support requiring AI companies to transfer half of their stock to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, coinciding with Sen. Bernie Sanders' legislation t…
South Korea's exports surged 62.8% in July to $98.89 billion, beating economist forecasts, driven by a 179% jump in semiconductor exports and a 404% surge in computer exports, according to preliminary…