1. Bloomberg의 진단 : 한국 증시의 변동성 폭증과 정책 오류에 따른 투자 매력도 저하지수 변동성 급증과 외국인 자금 이탈: Kospi 지수가 27거래일 동안 약 40% 폭락하고 하루 5% 이상 변동한 날이 33일에 달하면서 리스크 관리를 중시하는 외국인 기관 투자자들의 지속적인 매도세 유발.단일 종목 레버리지 ETF 승인과 시장 왜곡: 단일 종목 Leveraged ETF 승인으로 SK Hynix 등 주요 종목에 대한 일일 Rebalancing 거래량이 급증하여 주가 변동성을 인위적으로 증폭시키는 정책적 오류 발생.개인 투자자 피해와 국민연금의 규칙 이탈: 36만 개 계좌의 강제 반대매매로 청년층 손실이...

South Korea is home to the world’s hottest and most volatile stock market this year. The Kospi’s near 40% tumble in just 27 trading days is comparable to China’s market crash in 2015. But with an easing of the global AI stock rout, it’s natural to ask if the benchmark index is destined for a rebound.Bulls might argue that unlike China a decade ago, Korea’s business fundamentals are sound. The two memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., which make up more than half of the index, are direct beneficiaries to the AI inf...

Chinese robot maker AI² Robotics is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter, looking to tap into interest for the growing sector.The Shenzhen-based company is working with advisers on a potential offering that may take place as soon as next year, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential information.AI² Robotics recently raised almost 5 billion yuan ($740 million) in a funding round that pushed its valuation above 20 billion yuan, a level reached by just a...

Nine in ten CEOs say they are starting to see initial value from AI. To build on that momentum and unlock value at scale, they can adapt the proven disciplines of transformation.Many CEOs know that they need to transform the business with AI to create impact at scale—but most are unclear how to accomplish that goal.AI makes the familiar work of transformation harder. The impact on people is greater, plans must change as technology evolves, risks grow before companies fully understand them, and the value case is harder to quantify in advance...

Some singles are turning to AI-trained matchmakers as they burn out on swiping.When Zasckia Villatoro met Sebastian Mitchell for their first date in November, all she knew about him was what her chatbot told her.Villatoro, 33 years old, had spent weeks texting with the bot, telling it about her habits, values, background and dating preferences. The bot, in turn, pitched men with whom it predicted she would be compatible.It said Mitchell, 36, had a “diverse background, having been born in Germany and raised in Australia, Spain, and Scotland....

The U.S. government last week banned the import of new advanced robotic devices manufactured abroad. The move is mostly aimed at China, which is like the U.S. a leader in the field. The country accused the U.S. of protectionism and announced countermeasures. While the ban applies to state-of-the-art humanoid robots, the Federal Communications Commission on the weekend clarified that it also extends to the import of robot vacuum models and similar machines not yet sold in the United States. The FCC cited national security concerns for its dec...

A Tiny 4K Projector That Seems Determined to Make Your TV Feel ObsoleteProjectors have always come with baggage. Sometimes literally. You’d drag one out of a closet, hunt for the power cable that mysteriously vanished since last summer, spend ten minutes nudging it half an inch left…then another half an inch right…only to end up watching a movie that looked vaguely like it was projected through a bedsheet. Portable projectors were supposed to fix that. Most of them solved the size problem. The picture? Not always.This makes XGIMI’s Elfin...

AI has rapidly become a huge economic factor while affecting everything from capital investment to how much you pay for an iPhone.The U.S. economy keeps putting more eggs in the artificial-intelligence basket.Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to meet AI computing needs and issuing billions of dollars of debt to help make those purchases.The rapid data-center build-out is powering construction spending, hiring and municipal revenues. Meanwhile, a stock-market rally fueled by the rise in shares of chip makers and othe...

Ogilvy Social Lab Brussels has reframed IKEA Belgium’s affordability message with an outdoor advertising campaign that prices not the product, but the moment it makes possible.As rivals strip zeros from their price tags in an ongoing retail price war, IKEA has gone the other way and added them.Each execution pairs a real IKEA product with its standard retail price and a second, near-invisible figure for what the item enables: a sofa priced at €0,00000063 per jump for joy, a dog toy at €0,0000024 per tail wag, a bedside lamp at €0,0000000...