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All the press members are waiting for Jensen Huang , the founder and CEO of $NVDA #gtctaipei #gtc #ai
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Jensen Huang’s daughter meeting with Korean Partners meetup dinner. #gtc #gtctaipei
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The way we use apps is about to change forever. Jensen notes that most of us only know about 10% of any app's features. The solution? #AIAgents. Soon, you'll just tell the agent what you want to do, and the agent—who knows 100% of the app—will do it for you. $NVDA #GTCTaipei
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#GTCTaipei #Computex2026 - $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang brought their parent to Taiwan.
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#computex media mix begins now. #ai #computex2026
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TAITRA’s CEO just opened up #Computex2026. Tonight isn't about the product launches or the headlines—it’s about the #tech world reconnecting in Taipei. Tomorrow, 1,500 companies show us how #AI is fundamentally changing global #manufacturing.
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Regarding the #Starbucks event in South Korea, this would be easier to understand from an American perspective. What if Starbucks held an event with its tumbler on September 11th, using the hashtags "#Airplane Day" and "#Boom on the skyscraper"? $SBUX
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Texas Data Center: 1.5-gigawatt capacity under construction by SB Energy, backed by an agreement with OpenAI for over 15 years. #AI #DataCenter Source: #SoftBank
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#PhysicalAI infrastructure and portfolio metrics reveal unprecedented scaling requirements: Ohio #DataCenter Campus: Planned power capacity of 10GW. This single project exceeds the combined installed data center capacity of the UK, Japan, and South Korea. #AI Source: #SoftBank
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#OpenAI numbers - Source: #SoftBank Q4 Earnings Total Investment by Softbank: Expected to reach $64.6 billion by October (13% ownership stake) Valuation Growth: $150B (Sept '24) ➡️ $260B (Mar '25) ➡️ $730B (Feb '26). #TechInvesting #VentureCapital #Data #AI
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User Base: 900 million weekly active users (15% of global internet users) and over 50 million paid subscribers as of February '26. Revenue Mix: Enterprise business (40%) expected to reach 50% by the end of 2026. #SoftBank #OpenAI #TechNews #Investing
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40% of the code Claude writes for you is wasted. you're paying for the rewrite. a 65-line markdown file fixes it. 120,000 developers have starred it. the author tested it on "30 codebases over 6 weeks" and reported a mistake rate drop from 41% to either 11% or 3% depending on whether you read the headline or the body. the irony is that the article is right. CLAUDE.md is the most under-leveraged file in your stack. 65 lines of behavioral rules outperform a 4,000-token preferences dump. "be careful" is useless. testable imperatives are gold. "be senior" doesn't work Claude already thinks it is. the 4 rules that ship the most leverage: / state assumptions, never guess silently / minimum code, nothing speculative / surgical changes, don't refactor adjacent code / define success, loop until verified compliance: ~80%. mistake rate: from ~40% to single digits. no human caught the contradicting numbers in the title. nobody had to.
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🛒 5/ "Headless" #Agent Commerce. Kakao is building an ecosystem where users get recommendations and complete payments entirely within a chat window. It's the ultimate "seamless" experience, capturing high-intent traffic without forcing users to switch between separate storefronts.
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🎯 4/ Two-Track Monetization. Kakao isn't just chasing hype; they are driving real usage. Their premium "#ChatGPT for Kakao" hit 11M users with MAUs doubling QoQ. For the broader public, the free "#Kanana in KakaoTalk" agent is seamlessly integrating into daily chats, targeting 31M downloads by year-end.
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#Kakao Q1 #Earnings: The South Korean tech giant is executing a textbook turnaround, pivoting its 50M-user superapp into a highly efficient "#AgenticAI" powerhouse. Here’s the breakdown 👇 #AI #TechNews #EarningsCall
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#KOSPI just hit 7528.72, but the surface-level print is a massive illusion. 🇰🇷📉 Foreigners pulled a massive KRW 4.6T (US$ 3.17B) swing in just 24 hours. They net-bought KRW 3.1T (US$ 2.14B) yesterday, only to dump KRW 1.5T (US$ 1.03B) today due to profit-taking ahead of futures expiration. Retail investors are currently absorbing the entire sell-off.
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Cap-weighted distortion: The 7,528 level is a mirage driven almost entirely by mega-cap semiconductors like #Samsung Electronics and #SKHynix. If you strip out these heavyweights, the effective KOSPI feels closer to 4,100. #AI #Chips #Tech
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Zero market breadth: It’s a "VIP semi-only party." While large-cap semis are supported by foreign capital (previously) and pension funds, small and mid-caps are suffering a severe liquidity vacuum and trading sideways or down. #KoreanMarket #AsianEquities #AI #Liquidity #KOSPI
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Kakao is shifting into high gear for the #AI era! CEO says the company is scaling its #AgentAI platform to onboard all 50M users with a highly efficient, domain-specific architecture. #TechNews #AINews #Kakao #Earnings
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The ultimate goal? Seamless #AI-driven discovery, booking, and payment entirely within the #KakaoTalk app. #TechNews #Earnings #SouthKorea
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