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■ Race for security talent accelerates: Demand for information security personnel surged 88% in the first half of this year from a year earlier, nearly doubling. A string of large-scale personal data breaches, combined with the spread of AI-driven hacking, has prompted a rapidly growing number of companies to rush to secure dedicated security staff.
■ Securing AI talent now includes extraordinary promotions: Luo Fuli, 31, an early core member of DeepSeek, rose to the top vice president-level rank just 10 months after joining Xiaomi, setting the fastest promotion record in the company’s history. Analysts say China’s big tech competition for AI talent has evolved beyond pay packages into granting extraordinary decision-making authority.
■ AI tools paradoxically expose hacker’s identity: A hacker who attacked South Korean financial institutions left behind information suggesting their identity, including the initials of their name and place of residence, while using an AI coding tool to write a resume. With AI tools becoming part of daily work, calls are growing for greater caution about entering personal information.
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1. Heated Race for Security Talent as First-Half Demand Doubles
Key points: Demand for information security personnel surged 88% in the first half of this year from a year earlier. Increases were clear across every hiring channel, including scouting offers (96%), headhunting approaches (87%) and job postings (82%), with the sharpest jumps at smaller companies (175%) and startups (156%). A Cisco survey found that 97% of South Korean companies report a shortage of skilled security personnel. Industry officials expect demand to keep expanding through next year, noting that even if AI handles standardized, repetitive tasks such as threat classification, advanced threat analysis and final response remain the work of specialists.
2. Genius Recruited by Lei Jun Promoted to Vice President 10 Months After Joining Xiaomi
Key points: Luo Fuli, 31, a leading contributor to the development of DeepSeek’s R1 model, was promoted to the level-22 vice president rank just 10 months after joining Xiaomi. The promotion is seen as recognition of MiMo V2.6, the in-house AI model Luo led, which took first place in an open-weight composite intelligence index. Tencent has offered up to 100 million yuan (about 20 billion won) and ByteDance up to 6 million yuan (about 1.2 billion won) for key roles as they join the competition for talent. 36Kr said competition has evolved beyond the initial stage of high pay and benefits into granting decision-making authority through extraordinary promotions.
Key points: U.S. security firm CrowdStrike said a hacker who attacked South Korean financial institutions entered the initials of their name, a Telegram account and their place of residence while asking the AI coding tool Claude Code to write a resume. The attacker used an IP address based in Hong Kong as a base and cross-used nine proxy IP addresses, and was also found to have installed a lightweight DeepSeek AI model in intrusion tools. There were also signs the attacker asked the AI tool about channels for selling the South Korean financial data obtained. Police are working with related agencies and concentrating their investigation on tracing the hacking route backward.
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4. Words Abound but Communication Grows Distant as Language Gaps Widen Across Generations and Jobs
Key points: As online coinages such as “neulkkeukkeu,” “gamdadwi” and “syagal” spread rapidly, communication gaps between generations are widening. The National Institute of Korean Language has produced 18,319 plain Korean replacements for difficult loanwords, while technical terms from the economy and technology fields are spilling into everyday speech, creating language gaps even within the same generation depending on occupation and interests. In the OECD’s PISA 2025, South Korean 15-year-olds averaged 501 points in reading, down 14 points from 2022. Concerns are growing that reading and writing skills could weaken further as more people hand writing tasks over to generative AI.
5. Palantir Rises 7% While Its 2x ETF Falls 18%: The Leverage Paradox
Key points: A two-times leveraged ETF tracking Palantir (PTIR) fell 18.5% even as the underlying stock rose 7.1%, an example of leveraged products moving against the returns of the underlying shares. The cause is the daily reset structure, which accumulates volatility losses as prices swing repeatedly. By contrast, Micron, whose gains ran in one direction, rose 268.7% while its two-times ETF jumped 606.7%, a gap of 338.1 percentage points. Securities analysts advised treating leveraged products as short-term trading instruments.
Key points: Samsung Electronics’ preliminary third-quarter operating profit of 107.4 trillion won was effectively all from its memory business, according to analysis. DRAM and NAND shipments rose just 3.4% and 4.2% from the previous quarter, but average selling prices jumped 20.1% and 19%, lifting profit. The price of commodity DDR4 8Gb DRAM soared more than fourfold over the past year, from $6.3 to $26. Meritz Securities forecast Samsung Electronics’ operating profit at 632.4 trillion won next year and expects prices for next-generation HBM4 to rise to about double this year’s level.
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