Analysts expect Samsung to report around 86 trillion won in Q2 operating profit, roughly 18 times last year, as AI memory prices surge.

AI has made it significantly easier and cheaper to build software internally, which is causing many executives to rethink SaaS subscriptions through a narrow cost-cutting lens.

Seoul wants record Samsung and SK Hynix profits to bankroll AI investment and fight inequality via a new "future response fund", Yonhap reports.

Universal's latest Minions film won the July 4 weekend with $64m, but it is the weakest Despicable Me opening yet, half its predecessors' hauls.

The NCA and IWF tell parents to stop posting children's photos publicly as AI-generated abuse videos jump from 13 to 3,440 in a year.

A US judge restored Alibaba's access to Washington lobbyists while weighing whether the Pentagon-linked ban is constitutional.

Doubao and Qwen are pulling user-created agents before Beijing's July 15 rules on humanlike AI interaction, the world's first such framework.

AI in the NHS App will direct patients to GPs, pharmacies, or A&E, reaching 200,000 people in year one. Health leaders question the evidence base.

Sergey Brin has spent $82m fighting California's 5% billionaire tax, leading a tech-elite campaign that outspends the measure's union backers 4 to 1.

Washington decides which NATO allies access cyber-capable AI like Claude Mythos. At the Ankara summit, the fight stays in the corridors.

Jane Fraser says banks must race to turn AI into revenue while defending the financial system, and admits job dislocations are already underway.

Arthur Mensch urges enterprises to go open source, warning closed AI providers retain data and compete with customers. The pitch ends at Mistral's door.