Most in new poll oppose bets on elections
Most Americans regardless of party oppose betting on election results through prediction markets such as Kalshi or Polymarket, according to a new survey. A Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Monday, found t...
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OpenAI’s GPT-6 may lead to robotics breakthrough as soon as next year: Unitree founder
US start-up OpenAI’s latest advances in artificial intelligence may be a tipping point that leads to a breakthrough for the robotics industry as soon as next year, according to the founder of Chinese ...
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3 telecoms' Q3 profits to jump 84% to $1.04 bil.
Three major telecom companies — SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus — are expected to report an 83.56 percent year-on-year jump in combined third-quarter operating profits to 1.37 trillion won ($1.04 billion)...
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Lawmakers slam Coupang for refusing to cooperate with antitrust probe
Lawmakers from both the ruling and opposition parties criticized Coupang on Monday for refusing an on-site investigation by the antitrust regulator, warning that its actions could undermine law enforc...
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Lee orders stern response to alleged abuse of workers at car battery plant
President Lee Jae Myung ordered the authorities Monday to respond sternly to allegations that a car battery manufacturer duped its workers into getting shots to discharge heavy metals from their bodie...
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Google Korea finally wins tax dispute against Korean tax office
The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Korea's tax authority, effectively upholding a lower court's ruling in favor of Google Korea in a corporate tax cancellation case involving about 154 billi...
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Celltrion Q3 operating profit tops W500 bil. mark for 1st time
Biotech company Celltrion said Monday that its operating profit for the third quarter of 2026 is expected to surpass the 500 billion won ($374.3 million) mark for the first time, driven by robust sale...
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Less paperwork, AI-powered banking: KakaoBank joins race for foreign customers
KakaoBank on Monday launched a range of financial services for international residents in Korea, joining local lenders in the race to attract customers from the country's growing foreign population. T...
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Civic group files complaint against Kakao over alleged privacy law violations
A civic group filed a complaint against Kakao with the privacy watchdog on Monday, alleging that the tech giant's corporate advertising service uses personal data to target users without their consent...
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AI pioneer sees Korea's role in developing world model
Developing industrial artificial intelligence (AI) requires "world AI" capable of understanding the physical world, and Korea has an increasingly important role to play in this field, according to Yan...
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Air Premia captures 20% market share on LA route in 4th year of service
Korean budget airline Air Premia has captured more than 20 percent of passenger traffic carried by domestic carriers on the Incheon–Los Angeles route, marking four years of service on its flagship tra...
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Hyosung Chemical brings high-performance plastics to Europe for EVs, robots
Hyosung Chemical, a major Korean producer of advanced industrial polymers, is pushing its high-performance plastics into the European market. The company is targeting automakers and robotics manufactu...
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HLB resubmits FDA application for liver cancer treatment
Korean drugmaker HLB has resubmitted its application for U.S. approval of a combination therapy for advanced liver cancer, renewing its push to bring the target treatment to market after addressing re...
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Claude emerges as fastest-growing AI skill in Korean job postings
Korean employers are no longer just asking job candidates if they understand artificial intelligence (AI). Instead, they are requiring hands-on expertise with specific platforms — and Claude is leadin...
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Naver Map to offer voice guidance on Meta, Google, Samsung smart glasses
Naver Map, Korea’s most widely used online map service, will offer real-time, step-by-step voice navigation through artificial intelligence (AI)-powered smart glasses, becoming the first Korean map se...
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Gaon Cable to make nuclear power plant cables in US
Gaon Cable, an affiliate of LS Group, will build production lines for nuclear power plant cables at its U.S. plant in North Carolina, aiming to get ahead in a market expected to grow as the country ex...
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SK Group opens 2-year AI academy with $2,200 monthly allowance
SK Group will launch a two-year, full-time, non-degree program for aspiring developers and early-career innovators focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve real-world problems, the congl...
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SK Group chairman challenges court's property division in divorce suit with ex-wife
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won on Monday is said to be challenging the court's property division in his ongoing suit with his former wife, which set the wife's share at 33 percent of their shared prop...
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Football Manager 27 launches on 11 November, giving United and Spurs fans a chance to do better
The latest entry in Sports Interactive’s long-running series arrives with refreshed stadiums, crowds and match-day conditions....
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Razer’s swaps hall effect for capacitive thumbsticks on its new Wolverine V4 controllers
The triggers also now feature adjustable actuation, alongside the dual-mode actuation methods....
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Vietnam’s shoppers are asking AI first, but Google still gets the last word
Before a Vietnamese shopper adds anything to a cart these days, there is a good chance a chatbot has been consulted. As many as 62 per cent of Vietnamese buyers use AI, including generative AI, to res...
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Singapore SMEs buy back time with AI, but messy data keeps pilots stuck
Ask a Singapore small business owner what AI has done for them, and the answer is time. Ask whether their systems are ready to let AI run more of the business, and the answer gets a lot less certain. ...
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Malaysia’s Budget 2027 hands startups US$110.4M but the bigger cheques go elsewhere
Malaysia has put a number on its startup ambitions: MYR450 million (US$110.4 million). That is how much the National Fund of Funds Jelawang Capital and Dana Perintis, the startup vehicle of the Retire...
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Beyond automation: How AI is reshaping the SME landscape in Southeast Asia
Artificial intelligence is increasingly moving from an experimental technology to an operational tool for small and medium-sized enterprises across Southeast Asia. Yet the more important question is n...
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China’s factories leaping straight into agentic AI and taking it global: Black Lake CEO
China’s manufacturing sector is leapfrogging straight into the era of agentic artificial intelligence and is now exporting that playbook to global supply chains, according to the CEO of Black Lake, a ...
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Below US$82,620 Bitcoin could test US$81,154 next
Bitcoin climbed 0.87 per cent to US$83,666.22. The move looked calm on the surface. The underlying mechanics told a different story. A derivatives-led short squeeze drove the advance. No clear coin-sp...
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Don’t build another app. Build inside the ones people already open
The average smartphone user opens around ten apps a day and about 34 in a month, according to Sensor Tower’s State of Mobile 2026. Global app downloads grew 0.8 per cent last year. The home screen is ...
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Your deeptech company does not have one capital problem
Open a deeptech company’s use-of-proceeds slide and one number often sits at the top: the size of the next round. Underneath, however, the money may be doing very different jobs—funding an unproven pr...
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Apple said to be planning a second launch event on 27 October
Apple could unveil its first touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro, new M6-powered Macs, and an OLED iPad mini at the event....
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Why SEA’s retailers need to protect AI-powered customer experience with observability
Southeast Asia’s retail sector is racing to embed AI into every layer of the customer journey and nowhere is that race more visible than in Singapore. The government announced a 400 per cent tax deduc...
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