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Naver and Brookfield Asset Management commenced full-scale financing for a massive artificial intelligence data center (AIDC) project on the 23rd, according to investment banking industry sources. The total project cost exceeds 10 trillion won, requiring major Korean financial institutions to

According to PANews, Firecrawl, a web data infrastructure company, completed a $75 million Series B funding round on September 23, led by Smash Capital. The company simultaneously launched Alexandria, a knowledge base platform for AI agents designed to provide unified access to real-time web data, o

Vast Data announced DataEnclave in Singapore today (September 23), a product enabling enterprises to run AI models on sensitive data within their own data centers or trusted cloud infrastructure using Nvidia Confidential Computing. The platform targets financial services, healthcare, government,

KOTRA held the '2026 North America Trade and Investment Expansion Strategy Conference' in Los Angeles on the 22nd (local time), chaired by President Kang Kyung-sung, the organization announced on the 23rd. The conference brought

According to posts on X on Tuesday, Nebius is raising prices for its Token Factory managed inference platform by an average of 18.3%, effective Oct. 1. The increases target Pay-As-You-Go dedicated GPU endpoints, with high-end Nvidia configurations climbing sharply: H100 pricing rising 16% to $4.70 p

Samsung Asset Management is preparing a US AI agent-themed active ETF, with the original September launch now delayed. Meanwhile, the Financial Supervisory Service is investigating four Samsung Active Asset Management employees for alleged front-running related to the KoAct KOSDAQ Active ETF

According to E Daily, South Korean technology companies are increasingly offering customized AI infrastructure solutions as artificial intelligence applications expand beyond large-scale model training to inference and on-site industrial deployment. LG CNS introduced 'AI Box,' a containerized data c

Tencent Cloud officially launched Tencent Cloud DataBuddy on Sept. 22. Following Tencent CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy, DataBuddy is a fully managed data and AI work platform with native support for intelligent agents, integrating them directly as core platform components. DataBuddy’s Four Major Agent Scenarios: End-to-End Coverage from Data Engineering to Data Science According to Tencent Cloud’s announcement, DataBuddy currently supports four major agent scenarios: Data engineering: Enables end-to-e

Crucible Capital partner Meltem Demirors said at the Avalanche Summit in New York that the business model pioneered by Bitcoin (BTC) mining became a direct blueprint for AI infrastructure. She singled out CoreWeave and Crusoe, saying the two companies are concrete examples of how the crypto industry conducted early experimentation in AI infrastructure. Bitcoin Mining’s Foundational Contributions: Low-Cost Energy Arbitrage and Specialized Hardware Deployment Form the Blueprint for AI Infrastructu

South Korea and the United States are negotiating a framework to construct 2 APR-1400 nuclear reactors as part of a larger plan to build 8 reactors in the US, according to a report delivered to the National Assembly's Committee on Trade, Industry, Energy, SMEs and Startups. The agreement would

According to reports, Apple's new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips launched at Apple Store on September 22, with inventory selling out rapidly. Retail staff indicated that only two to three M5 Ultra units were available in-store, while the 96GB memory and 1TB storage configuration on Apple'

Plateer, a vertical AI and digital transformation solutions company, presented its agentic AI platform at the Financial Tech Conference 2026 held on the 22nd at FKI Tower Conference Center in Yeouido, Seoul. The company introduced its AI transformation (AX) strategy and sustainable operational

On September 22, Plateer introduced XGEN, an agentic AI platform, at the 2026 Financial Tech Conference in Seoul, attended by over 300 industry participants. The platform, designed to support AI adoption across finance, retail, and other sectors, enables enterprises to accumulate AI agents and

Perplexity.AI has deployed a self-distillation training method that reduced tool-call failures by 21.2% in live testing. The approach, aligned with the DART-SD framework, uses a two-stage pipeline combining supervised fine-tuning with on-policy reinforcement learning. Unlike traditional methods, it

Apple began shipping upgraded Mac Mini and Mac Studio systems on Tuesday, positioning the machines as lower-cost alternatives for AI inference workloads against Nvidia-powered infrastructure and Microsoft's cloud ecosystem. The company

At Alibaba Cloud Summit 2026, Alibaba Cloud released its next-generation Cloud Parallel File Storage (CPFS) for large-scale AI training clusters. The system delivers up to 100TB/s throughput and billion-level IOPS, with single filesystem capacity increased five-fold to 100PiB. In actual training

According to the Shanghai Securities News, Alibaba's Qwen Office unveiled the QwenNote A2, an AI Agent hardware device, at the Alibaba Cloud Summit on September 22. The device can execute Qwen Office tasks with a single voice command and integrates offline communication information into Qwen Office'

Meta Platforms Inc.'s Muse AI agent reached No. 1 in Apple's U.S. App Store free downloads, prompting JPMorgan to reiterate an Overweight rating with an $820 price target and BofA to maintain a Buy rating with an $810 target. The app holds a 4.9-star rating across more than 25,000 reviews and

According to PANews, Kimi announced a new browser extension on September 22 that enables users to interact with Kimi in the browser sidebar to assist with web browsing, form filling, and automated task execution. The extension can record and save repetitive task steps as reusable "skills" that Kimi