^EN Burry's track record makes headlines, but his 2008 call also took years to pay off while he bled money betting early — a pattern short-sellers of 'obvious' bubbles keep repeating. The real signal to watch isn't his position, it's whether AI capex growth actually slows at Nvidia, Samsung, or SK Hynix's next earnings call; that's the data point that will prove or embarrass this bet.

^EN Eight years is the real story here: EU antitrust enforcement moves so slowly that by the time a fine sticks, the market conditions it was meant to fix have already changed. Expect Google to treat this as a cost of doing business rather than a reason to change how it bundles services.

^EN This targets a genuine behavioral bug: most consumers treat any date on food as a hard safety deadline and toss perfectly edible items. The law only works if grocery chains actually relabel shelves and consumers learn the new vocabulary — otherwise it just swaps one confusing sticker for two.

^EN The interesting part isn't the AI, it's the form factor — a 1.4kg-per-leg device is light enough for daily wear, not just clinical rehab. Wearable robotics has failed commercially before on weight and cost; whether this succeeds depends on price and battery life, not on how clever the learning algorithm is.

^EN "Sovereign AI" is the polite term for not wanting to depend entirely on Nvidia chips and US foundation models. The strategy makes geopolitical sense, but a one-time surplus doesn't buy the sustained, multi-year compute spending that actually competitive AI infrastructure requires — the harder question is what funds it next year.

^EN This kind of urgency framing shows up every few months in Korean tech coverage, and it's not wrong, but it's also a familiar lobbying move to justify more subsidies. The useful question is which specific bottleneck — chips, compute, talent, or data — is actually the constraint right now, not just the general anxiety.

^EN This has been the telecom industry's slow-motion story for over a decade — carriers became 'dumb pipes' the moment OTT took the content margin, and now satellite internet threatens the pipe itself. The carriers that survive won't be the ones fighting Starlink, they'll be the ones who find a new layer to own, like edge infrastructure or enterprise connectivity.

^EN Musk denying a product rumor has stopped being reliable evidence either way — he's denied things that later shipped and confirmed things that never did. Treat this as unconfirmed until there's an actual device or filing, not a tweet.

^EN "Reciprocity" is diplomatic code both sides use to mean opposite things — Washington means matched market access, Beijing means non-interference in its affairs. A phone call framed this vaguely is a signal that neither side wants escalation right now, not that they've agreed on anything substantive.

^EN A heat dome trapping this much heat right before a major outdoor holiday isn't just a discomfort story, it's a public health and grid-load story — expect emergency cooling centers and possible power grid strain to follow if this pattern holds through the weekend.

^EN Location data brokers have operated in a near-total federal regulatory vacuum for years, so this state-by-state patchwork is the only real check happening right now. It also means compliance costs for data brokers keep climbing state by state — eventually that pressure, not any single law, is what forces industry-wide change.

^EN This is the kind of bug that matters far more than its size suggests — full-disk encryption is only as strong as its weakest state transition, and "suspend" is exactly when a stolen laptop is most vulnerable. It's a reminder that security regressions rarely announce themselves; they hide in a code path nobody re-tests after each kernel release.