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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… -
Find XO: Innovation in AI-based Overseas Purchasing Agency from an Entrepreneur's Perspective (venturesquare.net)
SummaryModepick used AI to achieve 10 billion KRW in overseas purchasing agency transaction volume with only four employees. More than the small number of staff, the key question is whether the automation h… -
Find XO: Samsung posts record-high profit but shares fall 10%; the market is looking at the next quarter, not the last one (ft.com)
SummarySamsung Electronics posted a preliminary record operating profit for Q2 nearly 19 times higher than a year ago, but its stock price fell 10% intraday, wiping out over $100 billion in market capitaliz… -
Find XO: Open weights arrive at frontier quality for one-sixth the cost, business margin calculations built on APIs go awry (martinalderson.com)
SummaryZ.ai's open-weight model GLM 5.2 outperformed GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks, with output costs of $4.40 per million tokens compared to Opus 4.8's $25. Businesses that layered wrappers on closed APIs t… -
Find XO: Big Tech Wages a $650 Billion Capex War; Founders' Weapon Is Cheaper Inference (fortune.com)
SummaryAmazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta have allocated $650 billion for AI infrastructure in 2026, and Stargate has reserved $500 billion over four years. Although capital alone can't guarantee victory,… -
Find XO: SK Hynix Achieves 72% Operating Profit Margin; HBM Bottleneck Becomes New Constraint for AI Startups (cnbc.com)
SummarySK Hynix recorded its best-ever results with 52 trillion won in sales and a 72% operating profit margin in Q1. Only three companies mass-produce HBM, and SK Hynix holds more than half of the market s… -
Find XO: 'On-Device Subscription' Pricing: Meta Charges $20 a Month for Features the Device Already Did (9to5google.com)
SummaryMeta has added a $19.99 per month Meta One Premium subscription to its smart glasses. The first paid feature, Conversation Focus, runs solely within the glasses without using servers, and is free up… -
Find XO: Opportunity for Innovation in the Browser Market (Founder's Perspective) (techcrunch.com)
SummaryThis article discusses the increasing demand for alternative browsers emphasizing privacy and customization features between Chrome and Safari. However, a more hidden issue than features is distribut… -
Find XO: Anthropic Approaches Samsung, Model Lab Chip War Draws in Korean Ecosystem (techcrunch.com)
SummaryAnthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture custom AI chips, considering Samsung's 2-nanometer process and advanced packaging. OpenAI revealed its inference chip Halapeno with Broad… -
Find XO: Spending $145 Billion but Agents Are Slow: This Gap is the Founder's Market (techcrunch.com)
SummaryMark Zuckerberg admitted at an internal town hall that AI agent development has not progressed as quickly as expected. Meta's capital expenditure guidance for this year is up to $145 billion. The imp… -
Find XO: The Future of AI Surgical Robots: Founder's Vision and Challenges (venturesquare.net)
SummaryLosota has secured 1.5 billion KRW in seed funding to develop AI surgical robots. This amount is small for surgical robots to cross the initial clinical trial threshold, so funds at this stage tend t… -
Find XO: Opportunity for Innovation in the Robotics Industry: A Founder's Perspective (venturesquare.net)
SummaryThis article states that robotics startups can receive up to 3 billion KRW in R&D funding through government programs like TIPS. Since robotics is an industry where mistakes are costly due to the har… -
Find XO: Sony Ends Game Discs, 'Ownership' Disappears Along with the Used Market (techcrunch.com)
SummarySony will stop producing physical discs for new PlayStation games starting January 2028. Since 85% of PS5 software was sold digitally last quarter, the remaining 15% effectively disappears. While exi…
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