August 27, 2026
Stories from this day
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Tech · 3 min readNvidia Q2 revenue $96.2 billion (August 26, 2026) — the outlook assumes zero from China
Results — Revenue $96.2bn (+106% YoY); Data Center $89.02bn (+117% YoY). Both above consensus
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Economy · 3 min readKOSPI closes at 6,808.21 on August 26, 2026 — retail sold ₩2.2tn and it rose anyway
Index — KOSPI 6,808.21 (+65.47 points, +0.97%); KOSDAQ 826.87 (-0.28 points, -0.03%)
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Economy · 3 min readUS July PCE 3.7% (August 26, 2026) — core at 3.3%, unchanged for a second month
Numbers — Headline PCE +3.7% YoY, +0.2% MoM. Core +3.3% YoY, +0.2% MoM — the same as June
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Economy · 3 min readBank of Korea rate decision, August 27, 2026 — 79% of the bond market says hold
Standing — Base rate 2.75 percent, following a 25bp increase at the July meeting
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Tech · 3 min readOpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first chip — 700W beat Nvidia parts rated at 1,200W
What it is — A general-purpose LLM inference accelerator. It runs models; it does not train them
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World · 3 min readHormuz declared clear of mines (August 25, 2026) — the same day Iran and Oman agreed to clear it
Declaration — Trump, August 25: all mines cleared from Hormuz international waters; new mine-layers to be destroyed
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Tech · 4 min readWhat an AI inference chip is — why companies build separate silicon from training GPUs
Split — Training builds a model, inference runs it. The frequency and the requirements are fundamentally different
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Tech · 3 min readAmazon Mechanical Turk shuts down September 30, 2026 — 21 years of 'artificial artificial intelligence'
Timing — Closing September 30, 2026, twenty-one years after launch. New customers were cut off in July
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Issues · 4 min readHow South Korea expels a lawmaker — 157 votes for a resolution still leaves the seat
Vote — August 26 floor vote: 157 in favour, 1 against, 1 invalid of 159 present. Most PPP members walked out
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Tech · 4 min readWhat data labeling is — who writes the answers an AI learns from
Definition — Attaching answers to raw data. It is the only channel through which supervised learning knows what is correct