On July 7, 2026, Samsung Electronics did something no technology company had ever done. Its preliminary guidance showed ₩89.4 trillion ($58.4 billion) in operating profit for a single quarter — roughly 19 times what it earned a year earlier, its … Read more
The SK Hynix Nasdaq ADR listing is the largest foreign share sale ever attempted on a US exchange — $28.14 billion, 17.79 million new depositary receipts, roughly 2.5% of the company. It is bigger than Alibaba’s $25 billion debut in … Read more
On June 29, 2026, President Lee Jae Myung stood between Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong and SK’s Chey Tae-won and unveiled the largest Korea memory chip investment ever announced. “Over $550 billion,” most outlets wrote, framed as the cure for “Ramageddon” — … Read more
On June 29, 2026, Palantir and NVIDIA announced a joint Palantir NVIDIA sovereign AI engine for running NVIDIA’s open Nemotron models inside air-gapped, government-grade environments. The market did not wait to read the fine print. Palantir stock closed up 4.6% … Read more
$30 billion. Fifty percent. Nine months. In February 2026, Nvidia invested $30B directly into OpenAI. In June, OpenAI unveiled a chip its design partner says runs inference for about 50% less than a standard AI GPU. Same two companies. This … Read more
120,000 characters. 24 hours. One classifier layer. That is roughly the shape of the failure behind the Anthropic export ban — the order that, by June 12, 2026, had the U.S. Commerce Department pulling Anthropic’s most capable model off the … Read more
On June 12, 2026, at 5:21pm ET, the United States government did something no government had ever done: it ordered a company to turn off its most capable commercial AI model — to everyone, everywhere, at once. Anthropic complied. Fable … Read more
In 2026, the consensus word for AI is “bubble.” Headlines warn of stretched multiples, circular financing, and a top that feels overdue. Then there is Alex Sacerdote — and the AI S-curve investing thesis he champions. He is the founder, … Read more
South Korea just rewrote its own semiconductor export record. In May 2026, the country shipped $37.2 billion worth of chips — a 169.4% surge year-over-year and the third consecutive monthly record above $30 billion (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy). … Read more