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SK Hynix passes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company, closing up 5.6% for a ~$1.4T market cap; South Korea's Kospi index is up 117% YTD (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-22 Korea Samsung

Ethiopian PM's party secures dominant election win (www.rt.com)
2026-6-22

Bain says it is using AI coding tools to recreate pieces of target companies' software, making hundreds of rough prototypes in recent years as due diligence (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI

Trump threatens to sue NYT for ‘treason' over Iran reporting (www.rt.com)
2026-6-22 Trump Iran

S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it scrambles to improve its substandard systems against AI threats (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 Japan IBM AI

Armenia's drills with NATO states are political, not military – ex-defense minister (www.rt.com)
2026-6-22

Starmer could step down as early as Monday – Telegraph (www.rt.com)
2026-6-22

Germany is itching to get revenge on Russia for 1945 (www.rt.com)
2026-6-22 Russia Germany

Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs “doing all of the learning for the world”, as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools (www.wsj.com)
2026-6-22 Microsoft AI

A look at JD Vance's “AI doctrine”, which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-6-22 AI

US-Iran Deal leaves Lebanon in Limbo, Israel as Spoiler (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-22 Israel Iran Lebanon

“‘Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show:” FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:46 (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-22

Hormuz Effect: EVS = Record 2/3s of Chinese New Car Sales (www.juancole.com)
2026-6-22 China

‘Humans, we have arrived!' Brazilians receive alien invasion alerts (www.rt.com)
2026-6-22

A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor that Bernie Sanders' team consulted while developing his AI sovereign wealth fund proposal (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-22 AI

'Tutor' Who Took Online Tests for 124 Students Jailed for Three Years (news.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22

Analysis: Anthropic may have talked itself into an export ban, as its 2026 official statements and posts used AI risk-related terms 8x more often than OpenAI (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI Ban

PitchBook: defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI, and more have raised $12.3B across 175 deals YTD, up from a $9.95B total from 158 deals in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-6-22 AI Drone

Meloni tells Trump to mind his own popularity in ‘photo begging' rift (www.rt.com)
2026-6-22 Trump

Zelensky ‘acted like Mr. Bean on crack,' US Treasury chief reportedly said (www.rt.com)
2026-6-22

Battlefield setbacks are fueling Ukraine's ‘loutish rhetoric' and terrorism – expert (www.rt.com)
2026-6-22 Ukraine Terrorism

Spanish PM's wife faces trial on corruption charges – media (www.rt.com)
2026-6-22 Spain

Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-6-22 China AI WeChat Tencent

Source: Morgan Stanley is pitching data center developers to use leveraged loans rather than bonds, and estimates ~$15B will be issued this year in such loans (www.theinformation.com)
2026-6-22 Morgan Stanley

WiseTech shares fell 11% after Australian police probed co-founder Richard White over sex exploitation claims; WiseTech shares are down ~67% in the past year (www.smh.com.au)
2026-6-22 Australia

TikTok Shows 3x More AI Slop Than YouTube, Report Finds (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-6-22 AI YouTube

Sources: ByteDance shares are trading at a $600B+ valuation in gray markets; an IPO is unlikely and its growth continues to benefit its Chinese and US backers (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-22 China IPO

China adds ten US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to export controls and bars government purchases from 46 US companies, including Anduril (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-22 China Drone

Shenzhen-listed Apple supplier Lingyi iTech seeks to raise $1.1B in a June 26 Hong Kong debut, as the electronic parts maker expands into AI hardware and robots (www.scmp.com)
2026-6-22 Hong Kong AI Apple Robot Shenzhen

Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all staff in Korea and DX division staff globally; OpenAI says it's one of its largest enterprise deployments (biz.chosun.com)
2026-6-22 Korea Samsung

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