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Find XO: Startup Environment Accelerated by Deep Tech and Defense Industry Investment (platum.kr)
SummaryMeshUp Ventures has appointed Partner Eunwoo Park, who has extensive experience in defense and deep tech investments, as Vice President and CIO. Personnel changes at investment firms indicate directi… -
Find XO: The Paradox of Steam's All-Time Highest Revenue: Old Games, Not New Releases, Made the Money (kotaku.com)
SummarySteam recorded its highest-ever half-year revenue of $11.1 billion in the first half of 2026, with only 21% from new releases and 79% from older titles. That doesn't mean marketing for new releases s… -
Find XO: Nvidia and Hugging Face Release Agent Training Data, Where Does the Data Moat Remain Now? (huggingface.co)
SummaryNvidia and Hugging Face have released a large number of open datasets for AI agent training and evaluation. From 200,000 software agent trajectories to corpora of up to 10 trillion tokens, anyone can… -
Find XO: Chinese Open Models Cut Inference Costs by up to 90%, But Entrepreneurs Should Focus on Where Their Data Goes (ft.com)
SummaryAs OpenAI and Anthropic API prices rise, U.S. and European companies are switching to Chinese open-weight models like DeepSeek and Q1. Because they handle the same tasks 60% to 90% cheaper. However,… -
Find XO: Growth Foundation for South Korean Startups: Investment and Innovation (venturesquare.net)
SummaryHoliday Robotics received 155 billion KRW in Series A funding, and K-beauty startup Prawn secured Pre-A investment. The fact that this amount went into Series A suggests that more value was placed on… -
Find XO: The Importance of Shareholder Returns and Digital Transformation (venturesquare.net)
SummaryBarrel increased shareholder returns through a 1 billion KRW share repurchase, while Orkestro Cloud transferred AI-based cloud transformation capabilities to the Moroccan Customs Administration. Thes… -
Find XO: Oratomic Raised $300 Million Aiming for 20,000-Qubit Quantum Computer (techcrunch.com)
SummaryOratomic has raised $300 million to develop a practical quantum computer with 20,000 qubits. The target number and investment size alone do not prove practical viability. What has changed is not the… -
Find XO: Memory Has Shifted from Cost to Allocation, Shaking the Foundation of AI Startups (pbs.org)
SummaryAI data centers are consuming about 70% of global memory production, causing consumer DRAM prices to soar, and Apple has raised the prices of MacBooks and iPads by hundreds of dollars. Memory is no l… -
Find XO: EU Revives Private Message Scanning, Challenging the Premise of End-to-End Encryption (euronews.com)
SummaryOn July 7, the European Parliament passed an emergency procedure vote 331 to 304, setting a vote on July 9 to revive the temporary private message scanning regulation that had expired after being rej… -
Find XO: The Era of Cheap, Free Compute Is Over; Power Has Become the Ceiling for AI Businesses (techcrunch.com)
SummaryThe US FERC ordered in June that AI data center grid connections must be processed within 90 days, with the condition that applicants either bring their own power or reduce demand. There is currently… -
Find XO: Apple Lowers Fees Only in Countries with Strict Regulations: What Korean App Entrepreneurs Should Consider Now (sisajournal-e.com)
SummaryThe issue of Apple's app market fee discrimination has come up again in the National Assembly. Alternative payment fees are 0% in the US and reduced to about 17% under the Digital Markets Act in Euro…
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