September 6, 2026
Stories from this day
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Tech · 3 min readMeta Muse Spark 1.3 pricing — the 21x discount is paid for with your prompts
Price — standard 1.25/4.25 dollars per million tokens; Contributor 0.10/0.20. A 21x gap on output
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Economy · 3 min readKorea's August exports hit $98.25 billion — semiconductors alone were $46.65 billion, 47.5% of the total
Total — 98.25bn dollars (+68.7%), third-highest month on record. Imports 63.51bn (+22.5%), surplus 34.75bn
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Economy · 2 min readKOSPI weekly −1.50% (August 31 – September 4, 2026) — four up days lost to one down day
Week — 6,788.88 to 6,687.21. Down 101.67 points, 1.50 percent, with four up days and one down day
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Economy · 3 min readS&P 500 weekly +0.09% (August 31 – September 4, 2026) — the index went nowhere, oil went up 9%
Week — S&P 500 7,711.76 to 7,718.60, up 6.84 points or 0.09 percent, with two changes of direction
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World · 3 min readUS strikes three Iranian oil tankers (September 5, 2026) — Seoul still won't call it a deployment
Strikes — CENTCOM hit three Iranian crude carriers on September 5. Two disabled, one destroyed, no US casualties
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World · 3 min readAnother survivor pulled from a Nepal flood tunnel (September 5, 2026) — at the plant where nine Koreans worked
Rescue — a Chinese worker pulled alive from a 225m tunnel on September 5 by a joint Nepali army and Korean team
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Economy · 3 min readWhat a base effect is — why half of '68.7% export growth' is a fact about last year
Definition — a growth rate distorted because the comparison period, the denominator, was abnormally low or high
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Tech · 4 min readWhat AI training opt-out is — the switch that keeps your prompts out of the next model
Definition — a setting that stops your prompts and the model's replies becoming training material for the next model
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Issues · 3 min readWhat a state visit is — the same trip, sorted into four grades of ceremony
Grades — state, official, working and private. Sorted by invitation source and ceremony, not by agenda
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Issues · 4 min readKorea's regular Assembly session — the four jobs packed into 100 days from September
Form — opens September 1 every year, up to 100 days. Unlike extraordinary sessions, the agenda is preset