Starbucks Korea retook first place among Korean coffee chains in September on an estimated 121 billion won of card spending, Mobile Index data show. Most of that lead came from a rival's 7.5 billion won drop, in a series that leaves out Starbucks' own prepaid cards and gift vouchers.
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Reflection AI says its first model, Beam, performs at the level of Z.ai's GLM-5.2 while using three to four times less compute than similar open models. Until outside testers report, those are the company's figures, and they count most with buyers who cannot use Chinese models.
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Shinsegae Group is putting $1 billion into Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery as it seeks growth beyond retail. Every use it named is still a plan to explore, so the money buys equity now and franchise access only if later talks succeed.
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buildOne report1 publisher Reflection AI commits $150 million a month to SpaceX compute before shipping its first open model
Reflection AI is preparing its first open-weight model after signing compute deals worth $150 million a month with SpaceX and over $1 billion with Nebius. Open weights leave the infrastructure and upkeep with the customer, so how the model deploys is the test buyers can run themselves.
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Hanwha's first housing project starts with a 236.7 billion won Gangnam land bill
Hanwha Galleria completes its purchase of the Sinsa-dong plot on the 14th with no housing development behind it, while Shinsegae hands 49 Cheongdam-dong flats to Aman to design and then run.
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