New York Life Investment Management global market strategist Julia Hermann warns that 'chipflation'—surging prices for AI-related logic and memory chips—will be the next major test for the AI trade, a…
Samsung Electronics America is laying off about 839 employees in the U.S., with 739 in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and roughly 100 in Plano, Texas, according to a Reuters report. The cuts target sal…
SK Hynix surpassed Samsung Electronics to become South Korea's most valuable company, with a market capitalization of 2,080.4 trillion won ($1.35 trillion) on June 23, driven by a 300% year-to-date su…
South Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix announced plans to invest roughly $518 billion (800 trillion won) in semiconductor infrastructure, building four new chip fabrication plants and doubling…
South Korea will launch a sovereign artificial intelligence model specializing in cybersecurity by the end of 2026, Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon announced Thursday, following U.S. export controls o…
South Korea plans to develop its own cybersecurity-focused AI model by the end of 2025 after US export restrictions on advanced AI models exposed risks of relying on foreign technology. Science and IC…
South Korea is developing its own security-focused AI model, expected to debut by the end of 2026, to ensure sovereign bug-finding capabilities after the US twice blocked access to Anthropic's Mythos …
Singapore's non-oil domestic exports rose 20.7% year on year in June, missing the 28.7% forecast, as a 105.1% surge in electronics shipments driven by AI demand was offset by a 2.9% decline in non-ele…
South Korea's government has posted a tender for a universal basic AI chatbot and an AI agent for government services, aiming to provide every resident with free access to a locally hosted AI service.…
Jacob Dreyer, an editor and contributing writer for Noema based in Shanghai, argues that AI-driven advances in longevity science, from protein mapping to brain-computer interfaces, are making extended…
South Korea's Lee Jae Myung administration aims to become a top AI powerhouse through three megaprojects including semiconductors and data center hubs, but Nobel laureates and AI researchers warn in a…
South Korea's Kospi index entered a technical bear market with a 20% decline from its record high last month, prompting analysts to warn of a potential spillover effect on China's AI trade. The volati…
South Korea will launch a sovereign AI model specializing in cybersecurity by the end of this year, Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon announced Thursday, citing growing digital security threats and conc…
South Korea's AI Basic Act, the first comprehensive national AI framework in Asia, took effect on January 22, 2026, requiring operators of 'high-impact AI' systems in healthcare, hiring, biometrics, o…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on July 13 for a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service agent available to all 52 million residents, making it the first G20 nation to o…
Britain's Princess Royal Anne shook hands with a robot during a three-day official trip to South Korea, where she visited a smart mobility laboratory at Korea University in Seoul. The robot waved at t…
Princess Anne shook hands with a humanoid robot during a three-day official visit to South Korea, at a smart mobility laboratory at Korea University in Seoul. The princess, accompanied by her husband …
South Korea's government unveiled a '3-4-5' economic vision targeting a 3 percent potential growth rate, becoming the world's fourth-largest exporting nation, and raising per capita gross national inc…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Wednesday called for the Ministry of Data and Statistics to serve as the nation's chief data officer and urged broader use of artificial intelligence to identif…
South Korea's ICT exports hit a record high of $253.9 billion in the first half of 2025, a 120.5% surge year-over-year driven by AI demand, the Ministry of Science and ICT reported Tuesday. Semiconduc…