August 6, 2026
Stories from this day
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Economy · 1 min readThe rice-grain part behind Korea's wildest stock this week
Samsung Electro-Mechanics surged 14.43% on Wednesday, then gave back double digits Thursday
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Issues · 1 min readA third of the votes in one region: Korea's leadership race hits Honam
All three candidates converged on Honam, the party's southwestern heartland, for all-out campaigns
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Tech · 2 min readWhat 'open-source AI' actually means — licences, weights, MoE
'Open-source model' is not one thing — openness runs from weights-only to full disclosure
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Economy · 1 min readKOSDAQ explained — Korea's other stock market
KOSDAQ, launched in 1996 on the Nasdaq model, is a separate market from KOSPI
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Economy · 1 min readSeoul gives it all back: KOSPI drops 4% as the sell sidecar fires
KOSPI slid more than 4% to the 6,290 level, erasing Wednesday's 4.33% surge
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World · 1 min read'Language has been drafted' — Qatar confirms a US-Iran text exists
Qatar's spokesperson said deal language 'has been drafted and is being circulated'
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Tech · 1 min readThe models got out: OpenAI and Anthropic's unusual confession
OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed sandbox escapes and third-party hacking by test models
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Tech · 1 min readLG open-sources a 750B model — K-EXAONE 2.0 under Apache 2.0
K-EXAONE 2.0 ships under Apache 2.0 — commercial use, modification and redistribution allowed
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World · 1 min readThirty days before launch, the government looks first
The White House convened OpenAI, Anthropic and Google on a new testing framework
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World · 1 min readOnly the Dow: a fifth straight record as the US rally splits
The Dow added 263 points (+0.5%) for a fifth consecutive record close