Declines in Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix shares reduced the market value of South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) by roughly 182 trillion won (about $137 billion), FnGuide data show. As of Oct. 15 the NPS’s portfolio stakes of 5% or more in 287 listed companies were valued at 333.53 trillion won, down from 515.93 trillion won at end-June. This marks the fund’s first quarter-on-quarter drop since Q4 2024 after record returns in 1H.

ByteDance said roughly 10% of its total compute is used for training and inference of video-generation models and called recent allocation figures “unreliable.” The figures came from an investor-relations disclosure by Zhongwen Online that said 55% of China’s AI token consumption goes to short dramas/video generation, 24% to e‑commerce ads and 15% to R&D, and that token use for AI short dramas/video now exceeds software development and is the largest token-consumption scenario.

China's National Bureau of Statistics said domestic demand drove growth in the first three quarters, contributing over 70% to GDP; final consumption accounted for nearly 50%. Manufacturing's share of the economy rose 0.6 percentage point YoY, and producer services accelerated, strengthening support for manufacturing's transformation and upgrade.