David Kim - South China Morning Post https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/rss/525969/feed David Kim is a former investment banker turned technology journalist who writes about Asian business, innovation and capital markets. He previously worked at GE Capital and Korea Development Bank. en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png David Kim - South China Morning Post https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg David Kim David Kim On October 18, Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory preparing one of the largest listings in history, committed 5 per cent of its shares to a public benefit fund. The next day, Elon Musk promised one SpaceX share, next year, for “every kid in America” – about US$10.6 billion for some 73 million children. The offers differ in who holds the shares. Anthropic’s will sit in an entity the company owns, spent on the public’s behalf; Musk’s would land, by a route he has not explained,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3371822/how-share-ai-wealth-neither-us-nor-asia-has-answer https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3371822/how-share-ai-wealth-neither-us-nor-asia-has-answer Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:30:06 +0000 How to share AI wealth? Neither the US nor Asia has the answer David Kim David Kim On September 1, former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced that Alex Karp, CEO of artificial intelligence and data analytics firm Palantir Technologies, would become the lead investor in a new defence technology company he is building. This confirmed what Fedorov had only gestured at two days earlier in an interview with the Financial Times: that what he was selling investors was never really drones. In that interview, he also suggested he was ready to trade drone-warfare... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3366882/what-ukraine-has-japan-and-taiwan-lack https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3366882/what-ukraine-has-japan-and-taiwan-lack Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:30:06 +0000 What Ukraine has that Japan and Taiwan lack David Kim David Kim Hwaseong, South Korea, past midnight. An engineer watches a defect pattern surface on her screen – the kind that, caught now, saves a week of wafers. She is locked in, fully absorbed, the way engineers get when a breakthrough is close. But she has to go home. The law says so. Yet something is disrupting the clock she races against. Artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting what her hours are worth. On June 29, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung stood alongside the leaders of Samsung... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3361805/era-defined-ai-can-work-still-be-measured-clock https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/asia-opinion/article/3361805/era-defined-ai-can-work-still-be-measured-clock Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:30:05 +0000 In an era defined by AI, can work still be measured by the clock?