^EN This is the nightmare scenario energy analysts have warned about for years — not one chokepoint failing, but both failing together. Expect oil prices to spike hard in the coming days, and watch for ripple effects in bond markets far from the Gulf, including Korea's.

^EN An IPO forces quarterly-earnings discipline, which sits awkwardly next to 'we're still not sure this is safe.' Reading between the lines, this buys OpenAI more room to move slowly on safety without shareholder pressure — or it's simply not ready financially and safety is the more flattering excuse.

^EN The comparison is sharper than it sounds — a central bank controls the money supply, and Nvidia controls the compute supply that AI labs live or die by. The real question this raises: what happens to the whole industry's roadmap the day a serious GPU alternative actually ships at scale.

^EN This is the payoff moment for the Bank of Korea's earlier-than-usual hikes — whether that preemptive move actually cushions the shock or just delayed the pain will become clear over the next few weeks, not this one.

^EN The jump from 'teleoperated stunt' to 'reads your movement and reacts' is the real headline here, not the fighting itself — that's the same perception-and-reaction loop needed for a robot to safely work alongside people in a warehouse or a home.

^EN Public procurement as an industrial policy tool works only if it's temporary training wheels, not a permanent subsidy — the real test is whether Korean drone makers can stand on price and quality once the government funding tapers off.

^EN Beyond the survival drama, this points to a structural problem worth watching: as climate-driven floods intensify, hydropower infrastructure built for an older, calmer rainfall pattern is going to keep producing more stories like this one.

^EN Lee has built a career on films that refuse easy resolution, so a Grand Jury Prize — Venice's award for the boldest, most challenging vision rather than the crowd-pleaser — fits his body of work more naturally than the top prize would have.

^EN This is a rare case where a demographic problem and a tourism strategy solve each other at the same time — vacant houses stop being an eyesore and safety hazard exactly when they become the thing tourists want to stay in.

^EN Public benchmarks like SWE-bench have been quietly gamed by models that were partly trained on the exact repos being tested — a private, enterprise-only benchmark is a much harder thing to leak into, which makes its scores more trustworthy, at least for now.