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Find XO: Layoffs Lowest in Two Years, but AI Remains the Top Reason for Five Consecutive Months (challengergray.com)
SummaryIn July, U.S. layoffs announced totaled 33,429, the lowest in two years, and the cumulative total from January to July is 41% lower than last year. However, AI has been the number one reason for layo… -
Find XO: Why Is AI Literacy Premium Increasing in an Era Where AI Writes for You? (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
SummaryA ManpowerGroup survey found that 69% of 13,168 employers across 11 Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern countries said they would pay a premium to employees with AI literacy. In the same summer, the EU b… -
Find XO: No One Is Yet Responsible for Identity Verification in Remote Hiring (techcrunch.com)
SummaryThe FBI has launched an investigation after identifying a remote IT worker employed by a U.S. government agency as a North Korean national. The Department of Justice previously reported that 136 comp… -
Find XO: Reading Unitree's 5,526 Times Oversubscription as Robot Demand Is Incorrect (scmp.com)
SummaryUnitree's IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market attracted 9.78 million individual accounts, resulting in a final winning rate of 0.018%. After listing, its market capitalization of 61 billion yuan is 219 tim… -
Find XO: Why didn't Anthropic lower the list price when competitors' prices are 1%? (zdnet.co.kr)
SummaryDeepSeek V4 Flash reportedly processes a complex task for $0.03, while Claude Phaeble 5 does so for $3.15. OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 fees by up to 80%, but Anthropic kept Opus 5's list price the same as the… -
Find XO: ReelShort to Make First Profit This Year, Short Dramas Now Judged by Performance (variety.com)
SummaryMPA report forecasts ReelShort's 2026 revenue at $1.05 billion and net profit around $40 million. It is a transition from a $12 million loss last year to the first profit, but with a thin margin of a… -
Find XO: The Loan Agreement from GPU Leasing Companies Determines My Contract (au.investing.com)
SummaryA banking syndicate led by Morgan Stanley is trying to transfer $15 billion in loans for the Texas data center used by Anthropic into bonds. The order multiples for hyperscaler bonds dropped from abo… -
Find XO: AI agents enter the org chart: Shinhan Investment Corp's first domestic agent department (yna.co.kr)
SummaryShinhan Investment Corp has created an AI agent department with one team leader agent and three agent members. This is the first time a Korean financial company has formed an independent department m… -
Find XO: India Finally Opens Wallets on Apps, A Monetization Turning Point for Founders (techcrunch.com)
SummaryIndia's app consumer spending in Q2 reached a record high of $345 million. This is a 35% increase year-over-year, fastest among major markets, while downloads have stayed steady at about 6.3 billion… -
Find XO: The Reason Amazon Increased CapEx by $20 Billion Was Memory Prices, Not Volume (datacenterknowledge.com)
SummaryAmazon raised its capital expenditure plan for 2026 from about $200 billion to $220 billion, citing memory prices as the reason. If the increase is due to unit cost rather than volume, then the assum… -
Find XO: Incorporating AI into Speech Rehabilitation while Prioritizing People (venturesquare.net)
SummaryYoon Seul-gi, CEO of Language Development Lab, is growing a non-face-to-face speech rehabilitation platform integrated with AI. Although it is described as putting people before technology, the real… -
Find XO: Split IPOs Blocked from August 3, Startup Acquisition Structures Will Change First (fsc.go.kr)
SummaryWith approval from the Financial Services Commission, from August 3, it will in principle be prohibited for a listed parent company to have its subsidiary listed separately. For subsidiaries created… -
Find XO: China's Game Revenue Hits 39 Trillion Won, Growth Comes from PC, Not Mobile (chinanews.com.cn)
SummaryChina's gaming market revenue in H1 reached 188.45 billion yuan, up 12.17%, with mobile growth limited to 7.9% and PC jumping 27.92%. The user count is nearly unchanged at 684 million. On the same da… -
Find XO: Eco-friendly Materials Have Become a New Focus for Korean Startups (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThe article says eco-friendly materials have become a new focus for Korean startups. If you notice money flowing into materials, first decide if your product is sold as a material or as a finished pr… -
Find XO: AI Teams from D.CAMP Increased Their Revenue by an Average of Threefold (venturesquare.net)
SummaryFive AI startups from the third batch D-Day at D.CAMP achieved an average revenue growth of three times, with some growing up to 20 times. However, this average may have been skewed by one or two tea… -
Find XO: Game Sales Down 10% While Cloud Revenue Jumps 27% Within the Same Company (theverge.com)
SummaryIn the fourth quarter, Microsoft's Xbox revenue dropped by 10%, while its cloud revenue increased by 27%, reaching $59.3 billion. In the same week, EA paid its CEO $38.65 million based on Battlefield…
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