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SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won told a Seoul forum that social value needs a price, citing a credit that has paid $52 million to over 400 enterprises. Whether outside investors will back that price with their own money is the open test.
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Foreign tourists' card spending in South Korea rose 48.5% to 14.018 trillion won in the first eight months, outpacing a 21.6% rise in arrivals. Each visitor now spends about 22% more, and the money passes a domestic travel trade that ranks 109th of 110 economies on high-wage jobs and loses many bookings to global platforms.
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Searches for 'AI resilience' rose 4,500% in the UK in a year, yet more than 50 experts consulted by ITPro could not agree on what the term means. Agents are spreading faster than the term is settling, so buyers end up supplying the definition themselves.
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Orano and the CEA say a Grenoble pilot line reliably makes N45UH magnets, in an EU that gets 98% of its rare-earth magnets from China. Motor and actuator buyers can start tracking the process for qualification, but the industrial line has not been built.
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The Bridgewater founder said in a video for the World Economic Forum that over-investment in world-changing technology creates debt and then a bubble and then a bust. Fortune puts the dotcom version at a 77% Nasdaq fall.
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AI skills appear in 2.5% of US job postings, roughly a million of them, and the two most-cited estimates of what they add to pay within the same occupation differ by more than two to one, with only one of them expressed in dollars.
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Over 60% of employers told the World Economic Forum that creative thinking and resilience will matter more by 2030. The essay quoting that figure locates the cause in childhood development, which leaves next year's training budget unaddressed.
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Park Hyeon-joo wants corporate tax relief to keep companies on Korea's growth board, though the exodus he cites runs at under two firms a year while 92.53% of market capitalisation, and the buyers with it, sits on the KOSPI.
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The gap between Rockwell's 95% of manufacturers funding AI and McKinsey's 2% embedding it in plant operations gets easier to read once you notice the 60% who never set a target for what the deployment should achieve.
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A commissioned YouGov survey puts U.S. AI displacement near 3%, with a sampling band about two points wide, and it excludes everyone currently out of work, which is precisely where the labor savings would be hiding.
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Washington's 50% duty on about $20 billion of Canadian goods is already live, and Ottawa's dollar-for-dollar answer starts Sept. 8. Neither side has scheduled a talk.
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A review of 81 accounting studies finds that decades of scholarships and mentoring got students through the university gates. The blockage sits in the workplaces they enter next.
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The ECB president told business leaders in Geneva that all three pillars of European growth are weakening at once. That makes the reset a planning assumption, not a cycle.
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Japan's own government prices its "digital cliff" at up to $76 billion a year. AWS is answering with an executive relocation, not with announced Japanese capex.
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Project Crystal Sun lands on top of $16.8 billion for Terafab. The incentive requested is a 10-year property tax abatement, and the filing names an unspecified alternative site outside Texas.
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