South Korea posts a record $61.46 billion monthly current account surplus as AI chip exports nearly double
Bank of Korea data for September show exports up 92.4% to $130.72 billion and a goods surplus of $62.75 billion, driven by semiconductors.
- Korean stocks slide more than 2% as SK hynix drops 5.8% on fears of tighter US AI data-centre rules
- Anthropic signs its first content licensing deal, with the AP for election data in Claude, ADWEEK reports
- SK chairman Chey Tae-won will chair Hyaico, SK hynix's US AI investment arm planning up to $10 billion
- Microsoft delays default usage-based billing for Copilot Business sold through partners to early 2027
- Fuji TV says AI cut some drama production steps by up to 80% and aims to use it on all dramas by October 2027
- OpenAI says an upcoming cyber model found 948 distinct Linux kernel root exploits for $1.2 million
- Claude Code product lead Cat Wu leaves Anthropic for OpenAI to run core product management
- Anthropic says Claude helped map the first 3D structure of a vault particle from bacterial life
- Moonshot AI releases the weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T-parameter open model with a 1M-token context
- Isomorphic Labs is reported to be in talks to raise about $5bn at a valuation near $50bn
- Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview, an open-weight coding model it says cost $32 million to build