Photo=Motionelements The rapid build-out of artificial-intelligence data centers in the U.S. is creating a new growth engine for the global battery industry, pushing energy-storage demand toward a potential 1-terawatt-hour milestone next year and opening opportunities for battery makers, grid-equipment suppliers and investors exposed to the expanding U.S. power infrastructure market. Global shipments of batteries for energy-storage systems rose 71% to

Photo=Hyundai Hyundai Motor is betting that buyers will pay for more space, better hybrid efficiency and increasingly sophisticated vehicle software as the global compact-SUV market evolves beyond traditional measures of performance and utility. For U.S. automakers, suppliers and investors watching the segment, the redesigned Tucson highlights a broader industry shift toward electrified powertrains, larger cabins and software features as competitive

Business loan credit extension American dollars banknotes background pattern out money South Korea is moving to bar investors under 19 from margin trading, tightening safeguards around leveraged investing as regulators increasingly focus on the risks that rising borrowing costs and market leverage pose to financial markets. The changes could affect U.S. investors and global financial firms with exposure to South

(Photo=Lime) South Korea’s shared scooter and electric bicycle market has grown so quickly that its success is becoming part of the problem. Millions of people now use the vehicles for short trips that buses, subways and cars do not handle well. Commuters use them between train stations and home. Delivery riders and designated drivers rely on them late at night.

(Photo=Codex_Generated_Image) South Korea is reopening the doors of its biggest corporate laboratories to young men fulfilling mandatory military service, reviving a program after 14 years as the country tries to keep artificial intelligence researchers from stepping away from their careers at a critical moment in the global technology race. The arrangement can look unusual from the United States, where technology