2026-06-22
Korea’s policy chief warns chip windfall could inflate housing
A semiconductor boom is a fine problem for a country to have, until you start asking where the money goes. That is roughly the question South Korea’s top economic policymaker put to the public this week. Kim Yong-beom, who heads policy planning in the presidential office, warned that the windfall from the AI-driven chip surge […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-22
Canada buys Australian Arctic radar in A$2.5bn defence-export first
Australia has been refining the same unusual piece of radar for decades, a system that bounces signals off the ionosphere to see thousands of kilometres past the curve of the Earth, and for all that time it kept the technology to itself. On Sunday it sold it abroad for the first time. Canada agreed to […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-22
Seedcamp raises $320M and builds out a transatlantic bridge
Seedcamp has spent nearly two decades writing the first cheque into companies before anyone else was sure they were worth one. Revolut, Wise, UiPath, Synthesia, and Fluidstack all took early money from the London firm, and on Monday it said it had raised $320mn to keep doing the same thing for the next generation, with […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-22
London’s Isometric lands $40M to certify the industrial economy with AI
Certification is the kind of work most people never think about until it holds something up. Before a regulator grants a permit, a buyer pays a premium, or an investor releases capital, somebody has to confirm that a claim is true, and for decades that somebody has done it slowly, by hand, sampling a fraction […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]