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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 regulatory concerns raised earlier this year. The Korean biopharmaceutical company said Monday that its U.S. subsidiary, Elevar Therapeutics, and Chinese partner Hengrui Pharma submitted the application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday, seeking approval of rivoceranib in combination with camrelizumab as a first-line treatment for liver cancer. The resubmission follows an FDA complete response letter issued in July regarding an application Elevar filed in January, prompting the companies to work with regulators to address the agency’s concerns. HLB said inspections of the manufacturing facilities have recently been completed, allowing the companies to submit the application again. The filing is based on CARES-310, a global Phase 3 clinical trial involving patients with unresectable or metastatic liver cancer. In the trial’s final analysis, the combination treatment ac

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 leading the surge in recruitment demand. According to data released Monday by JobKorea, a human resources technology platform operated by Worksphere, recruitment postings mentioning generative AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini jumped 170 percent in the third quarter compared to the same period last year. Among individual tools, Claude recorded the sharpest increase, with mentions climbing 770 percent, followed by Google’s Gemini at 500 percent, ChatGPT at 165 percent, Microsoft Copilot at 96 percent and Midjourney at 46 percent. Claude’s share of postings that named specific AI tools jumped from 17 percent last year to 55 percent this year, narrowing the gap with ChatGPT, whose share remained around 70 percent over the same period, according to JobKorea. Demand also grew for skills related to how AI is applied, with mentions of generative AI, prompt engineering, AI agents and vibe cod

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 expands nuclear power, the company said Monday. The Korean cable maker said its U.S. unit, LS Cable & System U.S.A., will install the equipment at its plant in Tarboro, North Carolina. The move is intended to build a local supply system ahead of the expected expansion of the U.S. market for large nuclear plants and small modular reactors (SMRs), smaller reactors that can be factory-built and installed in modules. The plant already produces overhead power lines for the U.S. grid. Adding nuclear cables will widen the range of products it makes locally. The company said the U.S. supply chain for nuclear plant equipment, including cables, remains thin because few new reactors have been built in the country for decades. Interest in new reactors has returned as electricity demand rises with the growing number of artificial intelligence data centers and as energy security becomes a priority. A single

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 conglomerate said Monday. Participants in the initiative will receive a monthly stipend of 3 million won (approximately $2,200) to support their intensive training and practical application projects. The program, SK AIGEN, combines “AI” and “generation.” It is open to people aged 19 to 34 and will start in March 2027 with about 50 participants. Participants will receive the monthly stipend for two years, along with training, mentoring and workspace. The program does not guarantee a job at SK or grant a degree, and participants have no obligations after completing it. In the first year, participants will plan and carry out individual or team projects that use AI to tackle problems faced by individuals, companies and society. In the second year, they will gain hands-on experience in fields tied to their own career or project plans, with SK connecting them to mentors and experts. SK said this

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 research purchases before they buy, according to a new survey by Ho Chi Minh City-based market research firm Q&Me. […] The post Vietnam’s shoppers are asking AI first, but Google still gets the last word appeared first on e27.

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. Also Read: Beyond automation: How AI is reshaping the SME landscape in Southeast Asia That tension […] The post Singapore SMEs buy back time with AI, but messy data keeps pilots stuck appeared first on e27.

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 Retirement Fund (KWAP), will invest in developing startups, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said in his Budget 2027 speech to parliament on Friday. “Startups […] The post Malaysia’s Budget 2027 hands startups US$110.4M but the bigger cheques go elsewhere appeared first on e27.

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 not whether SMEs will use AI, but where AI can create measurable business value without adding disproportionate complexity, cost, or risk. This distinction matters because Southeast Asia’s SME […] The post Beyond automation: How AI is reshaping the SME landscape in Southeast Asia appeared first on e27.

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 Chinese provider of cloud-based AI tools for factories. “Just as China skipped credit cards and jumped directly to mobile payments, many factories are skipping full traditional digitalisation and jumping directly to AI agents,” Zhou Yuxiang said in a recent interview with the South China Morning...

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-specific catalyst appeared in the data. No clear macro catalyst appeared either. The rally came from a mechanical clearing of leverage. It did not […] The post Below US$82,620 Bitcoin could test US$81,154 next appeared first on e27.

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 not an open market. It is a short list that changes slowly, and every new consumer app is […] The post Don’t build another app. Build inside the ones people already open appeared first on e27.