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Japanese securities firm IwaiCosmo Holdings has disclosed in a filing that a cyberattack resulted in unauthorized stock trades. The company stated its assessment that the attacker likely used AI in carrying out the breach.
Based on IMF projections, Korea's potential growth rate is reported to rise for two consecutive years, from 2.14% in 2025 to 2.20% in 2026 and 2.28% in 2027. A semiconductor boom driving expanded investment is cited as the background for the rebound, yet forecasts from international bodies covering the same period diverge sharply.
Tencent issued $5.7 billion (about 7.7 trillion won) in dollar and dim sum bonds on October 13, drawing orders exceeding $23 billion against the final size. Demand of nearly four times the issuance underscores the fundraising power of Chinese big tech firms that have sharply increased AI infrastructure investment this year.
Reports say Apple's 'Siri AI' Korean-language support could begin as early as October 26. However, the date is not an official Apple announcement but an estimate the media derived from update release patterns.
A Chosun Ilbo editorial claiming that 'two ministers are obstructing' the Honam semiconductor project has drawn attention. The project itself has continued moving forward, including national industrial complex candidate site designation in July and the start of industrial complex planning in October, while exaggeration and inconsistencies were found in the editorial's public opinion figures and causal assertions.
General Motors increased U.S. third-quarter sales by 8% year over year. The gains were driven by internal combustion truck and large SUV sales, showing in the numbers that even as EV revenue also rose, the ICE business remains the company's center of gravity.
Microsoft has released three prepaid time packs for Xbox Cloud Gaming that can be used without Game Pass. The packs are priced at $3.99 for 10 hours, $7.99 for 25 hours, and $11.99 for 50 hours, which the company describes as launch celebration base prices.
GitLab announced a fix for the maximum-severity CVSS 10.0 vulnerability CVE-2026-97229 on October 13, 2026. The integer overflow flaw could allow unauthenticated remote code execution on servers, prompting calls across the security industry for urgent patching.
Canadian publisher Boreal announced in October that it is cutting ties with the author of a novel excluded from the Prix Goncourt shortlist amid suspicions it was AI-written. The controversy surrounding France's most prestigious literary prize remains unresolved, with no ruling yet from a court or independent body.
Livestock startup Bardit claims its AI monitoring of cattle coughing and behavior cut mortality in Kenya from 32.6% to 0.6%. However, no third-party data supporting these figures was found in this review.