August 12, 2026
Stories from this day
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Economy · 3 min readKorean chip exports jump 155% — $9.95bn in ten days, 46.8% of everything the country sold
Exports $21.3bn (+45.3%) — working days were 7.0, identical to last year, so this is not a calendar effect
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Economy · 2 min readUS July CPI lands today — oil is what reopened the inflation question
Release: 8:30am ET, August 12 — effectively the last inflation print before the September FOMC
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Tech · 3 min readAnthropic will not own its datacenters — and says it will absorb the power-bill increase
Anthropic is the tenant; Macquarie and GIC are the landlords funding most of the equity
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Tech · 3 min readNVIDIA's open voice model yields the floor in 0.48 seconds when you cut in
Replaces the ASR → LLM → TTS pipeline with one network, removing the latency between stages
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World · 3 min readHormuz transit fees: Iran wants 7%, Oman offers 3%, Washington says zero
Lanes are split — inbound to the Gulf via northern Iranian waters, outbound via southern Omani waters
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Issues · 3 min readSeoul restores vulnerability points for public housing — twelve days after deleting them
July 30 notice — 3,421 units across 155 complexes, with eight scoring items reduced to two
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Issues · 3 min readHow to watch the Perseids — a telescope makes it worse, not better
No gear needed — meteors scatter across the whole sky, so wider vision beats magnification
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Issues · 3 min readKorea's public rental housing points — qualifying and winning are two different gates
Two gates — clear the income, asset and no-home tests first, then compete on points
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Economy · 3 min readTrade balance explained — why a 45% export surge barely moves the surplus
Trade balance = exports − imports — the surplus comes from the gap in dollars, not the gap in growth rates
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Tech · 4 min readWhat the DMA is — the law that lets Europe order Google to open Android
The core shift is timing — obligations apply from designation, instead of penalties applying after an investigation