Europe shifts energy policy, steps up SMR development EU expands institutional and financial backing East Asia’s three major economies also focus on SMRs, with South Korea and Japan struggling on commercialization Across Europe, efforts to bui

Japan Succeeds in Trial Deep-Sea Mining of Rare Earths Near Minamitorishima Push to Reduce Reliance on China in Rare Earth Supply Chain Accelerates After 2010 Brazil, Australia, and the United States Also Step Up Efforts to Reshape Rare Earth Supply Chains

EU Steps Up Efforts to Push China Out, Tightening Trade Barriers and Regulation Across the Board Europe’s Manufacturing Slump Deepens, With Limited Capacity to Replace Chinese Production EU Turns to “Home-First” Policies to Break the Deadlock, but Energy and Labor Cost Pressures Persist

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Directly Flags an AI Memory Supply Crunch “Supply Cliff Will Last at Least Several Years,” With Forecasts of Prolonged Market Turbulence AI Bubble Talk Persists Despite Unrelenting, Aggressive Investment in AI Infrastructure

Tesla Decides to Discontinue Model S and X, Retools Production Facilities for Optimus With EV Growth Slowing, Tesla Bets on Robotics and AI for a Performance Rebound Competition Likely to Come Down to Execution of Core Technologies Such as “Robot Hands”

Hyundai Motor Union Strongly Pushes Back Against Plans to Deploy Robots on Production Lines AI Advances Fuel a 21st-Century Revival of the Luddite Movement "Technological Progress Is Inevitable,"Korean Government Shifting Focus to Job Polarization and Other Side Effects

SoftBank to Inject Up to $30 Billion More Into OpenAI SoftBank Keeps Betting Aggressively, Selling Stakes Including Nvidia Holdings OpenAI Struggles to Prove Profitability, With an Ad-Supported Plan Still an Open Question SoftBank Gro

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Warning Signs Flash for Korea’s Craft Brewers as Failures Mount, Including Amazing Brewing Company and Sevenbrau Alcohol Consumption Slump Fuels the Downturn, With Only OB Beer Holding Up Behind Cass “Sober Curious” Trend Spreads Globally as Demand Shifts to Non-Alcoholic Drinks

J.D. Vance Presses South Korea’s Prime Minister to Hold Back on Coupang Regulation Coupang Becomes a De Facto U.S. Company After Its New York Listing Has U.S.-Backed Coupang Sparked a Korea–U.S. Power Struggle? U.S. Vice President J.D.

Lee Jae-myung Sends a Clear Warning on Korea’s Duplicate-Listing Practice LS Drops Its IPO Plan Amid the Dual-Listing Debate, Forcing Other Conglomerates to Rethink Subsidiary Listings Tighter Rules Could Fuel Offshore Spin-Off Listings, Raising the Need for Policy Safeguards

China’s Biotech Industry Tightens Its Grip on the Global New-Drug Market State Backing and Lighter Regulation Power a Challenge to Western Heavyweights U.S.

Won Slides as Talk of Coordinated U.S.–Japan Action Adds Downside Pressure Korea Could Get Some Relief After Months of Costly FX Defense Japan’s Takaichi Government Eyes a Poll Boost Ahead of a Snap Election The won–dollar rate, which had be

Samsung’s HBM4 nears shipment after clearing Nvidia and AMD validation HBM supply chain long dominated by SK hynix faces a shake-up as Samsung rebounds Three-way race heats up among Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron as next-gen HBM battle ignites Sa

Global memory market surges on HBM as AI drives a new supercycle Industry sees the boom lasting for years, with upbeat forecasts mounting Micron tipped as the biggest beneficiary among the memory “Big Three” The global semiconductor industry is b

Nvidia faces growing copyright infringement allegations over use of pirated book data to train AI Copyright lawsuits over generative AI training continue to pile up worldwide Regulatory gaps widen by country as the U.S., Japan, and the EU move toward looser rules

Korean shipbuilders move to enter U.S. Navy warship programs head-on, beyond MASGA Push accelerates despite steps to expand U.S. production capacity, including shipyard acquisitions With Trump administration signaling a pro-U.S.

Global liquor makers’ inventories pile up as COVID-era output surge backfires Shifting consumer trends erode alcohol’s role as a traditional defensive stock Demand pivots to non-alcoholic drinks, accelerating industry reshuffle Global liquor

Memory shortage deepens amid AI demand surge, DDR5 prices jump as much as fourfold Global big tech queues up as supply-demand balance flips PCs and smartphones hit hard, with price hikes and product cancellations mounting Global memory ch

ChatGPT rolls out $8-a-month ad-supported plan worldwide OpenAI adopts Netflix-style tiering to expand its paid user base Cash-burn pressure mounts as OpenAI turns to ChatGPT Go as an exit strategy