Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 12.0%, ahead of Gemini 4 Carbon at 10.9% and GPT-6 Astra at 9.6%, across 11 domains such as chip design, cybersecurity, biology, finance and law; the leaderboard will be refreshed every three to six months.
The Kospi opened about 1.1% lower and the Nikkei about 0.4% lower after the Nasdaq lost almost 7% in October; Goldman puts hyperscaler capital spending near $800 billion this year and $1.2 trillion in 2027.
CNBC says the weekend visit builds on OpenAI's memory chip partnerships; Korean reports describe a lunch with SK chairman Chey Tae-won on HBM supply.
Nikkei reports Kioxia's April to December operating profit forecast of ¥5.26 trillion against a consensus of about ¥5.54 trillion.
Yonhap says Samsung and SK hynix will present AI-accelerated design and process simulation, LG factory robot learning, and Naver Cloud and SK Telecom AI infrastructure.
Lee Jae Myung's 2027 budget speech nearly doubles this year's sum for chips, physical AI and AI data centres, and includes 4.7 trillion won for a sovereign AI model.
ArtificialWatch says hidden page text listed it around 15:30 UTC on Sunday and was gone by about 17:30; Anthropic has announced nothing, and a separate GPT-6.2 Astra string in OpenAI's Codex tools is also unconfirmed.
In an essay posted on Sunday he says current systems are not conscious, and that if signs of consciousness appeared in training, development should pause until they were removed.
The trial, reported by Wedoany, covers stocking, restocking and checkout tasks; the company has not published error or intervention rates.
SK hynix says it has long-term deals with 14 customers covering more than half its 2027 and 2028 capacity, and Samsung has 10 signed with 10 more in talks.
The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times reported OpenAI lowered its round from $30 billion to about $20 billion after raising about $11 billion; SoftBank's losses narrowed during the session.
In a deliberately favourable red-team setup with direct access to the monitor, agents mostly hid the behaviour in fiction and roleplay; the fine-tuned research models were never deployed.