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South Korea's Blue House announced plans to relocate military facilities and develop a semiconductor industrial complex on the Gwangju military airport site by the end of 2028. A senior Blue House official stated on the 10th that the timeline represents the fastest possible schedule after multiple w

Elon Musk endorsed Cloudflare's forecast that artificial intelligence agent traffic will vastly exceed human internet usage, calling the projection accurate. Cloudflare Chief Financial Officer Thomas Seifert told investors during the company's second-quarter earnings call on Thursday that non-human

South Korean government bond yields rose sharply on the 10th, with 30-year bonds leading the surge at 6.3 basis points. The sell-off was driven by foreign investors' recent sales of ultra-long non-benchmark bonds, alongside a rebound in US Treasury yields during Asian trading hours and foreign

The Korean government faces industry pushback over its Individual Savings Account (ISA) restructuring announced on May 3 as part of the 2026 tax reform plan. On the 9th, Democratic Party policy chief Han Jung-ae indicated existing ISA accounts may remain unchanged, stating there appears to be no

Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong (stock code 00215) reported interim shareholder profit of HK$11 million for the period ending June, an 83.33% year-on-year increase, with earnings per share of 0.23 HK cents and an interim dividend maintained at 2.28 HK cents. The profit growth was driven by ri

Nebius (NBIS) reports second-quarter 2026 results on 12 August 2026 before US market open, with shares trading at $190.28 on 10 August 2026 and options pricing a 15.9% move around the release. The company exited Q1 2026 with annualized run-rate revenue of roughly $1.92bn and guides to $7bn–$9bn of A

CoreWeave (CRWV) trades at $92.19 ahead of second-quarter earnings on August 11, 2026, with options markets pricing a roughly 15% move in either direction to a bull target near $106 or bear target near $79. The company guided Q2 revenue to $2.45 billion–$2.6 billion in May, approximately $160

AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton, involved with the volunteer Bitcoin Red Team initiative, said on X that his access to OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber capabilities was restricted, forcing him to return to Chinese open-source AI models for Bitcoin security research. Hamilton described the

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Aug. 3 directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to audit every data center advancing through the interconnection queue. ERCOT postponed Aug. 7 classification notices and will request permission to miss

The International Monetary Fund recently highlighted an analysis indicating that tokenization could reshape how financial markets operate. Tokenization involves representing assets, financial claims, or money as digital tokens on blockchain or programmable ledgers. The IMF's acknowledgment marks a s

Toobit won 'Global Exchange of the Year' from FinanceFeeds Awards 2026 for its rapid growth, product innovation, and secure trading platform. The award recognizes Toobit's position as one of the industry's fastest-growing exchanges, serving more than 4 million active traders across global markets an

Hong Kong's three major stock indices closed higher on Monday (10th), with the Hang Seng Index rising 1.05% to 25,937.49 points, the H-Share Index gaining 1.06% to 8,621.84 points, and the Hang Seng Tech Index advancing 1.26% to 4,919.46 points. The rally was driven by strong performances in the

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix short-selling positions diverged sharply over a 3-day period from month 31st to 5th of this month, according to Korea Exchange data. Samsung's short position balance surged 33.0% to 1.4802 trillion won, claiming the top spot in KOSPI short position rankings, while SK

South Korea's Financial Services Commission has not set an implementation timeline for additional regulations on single-stock leveraged products over 10 days after proposing the measures at a market situation review meeting (F4 meeting) on the 29th. The proposed measures include setting investment l

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit filed a civil lawsuit against North Korea over the theft of $1.5 billion from the exchange in February 2025, securing a U.S. federal court order freezing identified stolen assets. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, names the

SK Group's trading volume share in South Korea's stock market fell to 35.08% on the 10th, down from 51.67% recorded on the 3rd of last month, according to Korea Exchange data. The decline followed sharp drops in SK Hynix and SK Square stock prices, which fell 41.36% and 40.28% respectively over the

Over the past two years, AI investment has been highly concentrated in GPUs, large-model training, and cloud computing giants. As 2026 gets underway, market attention is shifting downward from the model layer to the physical infrastructure supporting AI operations—optical communications, data centers, computing power rentals, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. This week (August 10–16), this thesis will face a concentrated round of earnings tests. Optical module leaders Lumentum Holdings

Fourteen non-semiconductor growth stocks on the KOSPI rose an average of 20% in August while the broader KOSPI index fell 4.5% during the same period, according to Korea Exchange data. The divergence reflects investors focusing on companies with strong earnings growth prospects as market liquidity c

Japanese stock indices rose on August 10 as expectations for US interest rate hikes weakened. The Nikkei 225 index closed up 1,363.51 points (2.08%) at 66,970.22, rebounding after three trading sessions, while the Topix index gained 25.68 points (0.63%) to 4,100.61, surpassing the 4,100 level for th

North Korean hacker group Kimsuky is using local AI systems to target cryptocurrency and financial firms with cyberattacks, according to a report released Monday by South Korean cybersecurity firm Genians. The group built and operated three local large language model environments using Ollama, GPT4A