[10/15 03:00] Kospi plunges over 7% as AI return doubts and U.S. rate fears hit Asian chip stocks (Korea JoongAng Daily, CNBC) / ByteDance in advanced talks to secure MediaTek custom AI chips for data centers (Bloomberg)

AI News Flash for October 15, 2026 at 03:00 UTC.

Topics: 1. Kospi plunges over 7% as AI return doubts and U.S. rate fears hit Asian chip stocks (Korea JoongAng Daily, CNBC) https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/kospinbspplunges-over-7-as-ai-doubts-us-rate-fears-hit-seoul/12922059 2. ByteDance in advanced talks to secure MediaTek custom AI chips for data centers (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-15/bytedance-in-talks-to-secure-mediatek-ai-chips-for-data-centers 3. Mizuho to retrain clerical and sales staff as AI developers in three months (Nikkei via Chosun Ilbo English) https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2026/10/15/JK6RHHK7X5HHJC5UJMHAZTXZPE/ 4. OpenAI says agents now drive over half of EU business AI output, and SMB agent users grew 8x since May (OpenAI) https://openai.com/index/the-eus-next-chapter-in-ai-is-agentic/ 5. AlphaChip creators' Ricursive Intelligence bets on AI-designed chips to ease the compute crunch (TechCrunch Disrupt) https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/ricursive-intelligence-is-betting-on-ai-designed-chips-to-help-solve-the-compute-crisis/