Microsoft has introduced power efficiency as a key competitive priority in AI semiconductors. On October 12, the company unveiled its next-generation AI accelerator, Azure Maia 300, and announced plans to expand its in-house chip systems to several gigawatts beginning in 2027. The strategy aims to reduce operating costs by delivering more AI services with limited power resources. It also signals a broader shift in AI infrastructure competition from securing chips to improving service productivit

NVIDIA is expanding the boundaries of AI infrastructure with a new security architecture designed to monitor and control the actions of AI agents across both software and hardware. As the industry assessed the technology on October 3, a new security challenge was coming into focus: AI safety is no l

Hana Securities is broadening its foreign-currency funding base and strengthening its capital position as it expands investment in global investment banking, corporate finance and venture capital.The brokerage has moved beyond conventional dollar-denominated bonds by issuing foreign-currency hybrid

Coreline Soft is accelerating the expansion of its chest CT-based AI business in Japan, moving beyond lung nodule detection toward a broader multi-disease analysis portfolio.The Korean medical AI company recently received approval from Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) for it

Shinhan Financial Group is expanding its engagement with global digital asset infrastructure as it prepares for the growing adoption of tokenized finance across traditional financial markets.The group said it held talks on Sept. 29 with Yuval Rooz, co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset, and Veep Divak

KB Kookmin Bank is partnering with BNY to develop cross-border digital asset payment and remittance services, as the Korean lender seeks to strengthen its global digital finance capabilities.KB Kookmin Bank said Monday that it signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with BNY on Sept. 28, U.S.

Allegations that Chinese AI companies engaged in industrial-scale distillation of advanced U.S. AI models have entered a new phase. The first concrete regulatory move has come not from additional U.S. sanctions, but from China. Chinese internet regulators are reportedly investigating DeepSeek and Mo

Shinhan Financial Group is expanding its partnership with Vietnam’s Vingroup from auto financing into capital markets, seeking to turn its established retail finance relationship into broader corporate and investment banking opportunities.Shinhan Financial said on September 20 that Chairman Jin Ok-d

While Washington has spent years restricting China’s access to advanced GPUs, U.S. authorities now say another route has allowed Chinese AI developers to tap capabilities embedded in American frontier models. The route runs through APIs, cloud platforms and third-party networks rather than shipments

OpenAI is facing two demands for traceability at the same time. One concerns the activities of AI agents operating beyond controlled environments. The other concerns the information AI systems use and whether they have the rights to use it.The so-called “wiki incident” involving a German collaborati

The numbers that define the AI investment race are changing. GPU shipments and Big Tech capital expenditure alone no longer capture the scale or structure of capital flowing into the sector. AI companies are borrowing from banks, data center developers are raising money against long-term compute con

The South Korean steelmaker has signed a HyREX Collaboration Agreement with Australian mining giant BHP, bringing one of the world’s major iron ore suppliers directly into the process of validating its next-generation steelmaking technology.Under the agreement signed in Pohang on Sept. 3, POSCO will

Capital Group, one of the world's largest asset managers, has raised its stake in Shinhan Financial Group above 5%, drawing attention to how global long-term investors are reassessing Korean financial stocks amid stronger profitability, capital efficiency and shareholder return policies.Accordin

SK On is accelerating its expansion into the U.S. energy storage system market, leveraging its large-scale local manufacturing footprint to diversify beyond electric vehicle batteries and establish LFP batteries as a new growth pillar.The South Korean battery maker said on Aug. 31 that it has signed

South Korea’s artificial intelligence semiconductor boom is shaping both its economic outlook and interest-rate environment. Rising exports and capital spending led by Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have lifted the country’s growth forecast sharply. The Bank of Korea raised its policy rate to 3% a

Singapore is planning a new western island that could reshape its industrial and energy infrastructure for the next half-century. At the National Day Rally on August 23, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said the government intends to merge Semakau, Bukom, Pulau Sudong and several smaller islands south o

Two prices in the AI economy are beginning to move in opposite directions. Competition among model providers is pushing usage prices lower, while the capital, memory and servers needed to run those models are becoming more expensive. The widening gap between the price of AI services and the cost of

Artificial intelligence is emerging as one of the world’s largest new sources of demand for capital. As hundreds of billions of dollars flow through bond markets and private credit to finance data centers, GPUs and power grids, the AI investment race is moving beyond technology. The decisive questio

Decentralized exchanges are often defined by the absence of a central intermediary. Their more fundamental innovation, however, lies in how prices are formed. While traditional exchanges discover prices through competition between buy and sell orders, automated market maker-based DEXs such as Uniswa

Nvidia’s next expansion is moving directly into the AI model layer. The company is developing the Nemotron 4 family of open models, with its largest version expected to contain at least 1 trillion parameters, according to The Information as cited by Reuters. Final training has not been completed, an