AI Dividend Proposal Roils Korean Market
Bloomberg Tech
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4.4 • 69 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss comments by a South Korean policymaker that the country should pay citizens a “dividend” using taxes on AI profits. Plus, the largest US derivatives exchange, CME, is planning to create a futures market for computing power, one of the key drivers of the AI boom. And the CEO of SAP talks about the company’s push into AI agents across business operations.
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| 0:34.9 | Podcasts, radio, news. Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast. Radio News. |
| 0:46.7 | Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast with Caroline Hyde in New York and Ed Lovelow in San Francisco. |
| 0:55.6 | This is Bloomberg Tech coming up. Big swings in Korean stocks after a South Korean policymaker suggests paying citizens a dividend using taxes on AI profits. |
| 1:00.6 | Plus the largest US derivatives exchange, CME is planning to create a futures market for |
| 1:05.9 | computing power, one of the key drivers of the AI boom. |
| 1:09.6 | And SAP pushes further into AI agents across business operations with its new autonomous enterprise |
| 1:15.6 | platform. |
| 1:16.4 | We'll discuss with the CEO. |
| 1:18.0 | First, we check in on these markets, which, well, maybe for once we get a shakeout |
| 1:22.3 | of what has been a relentless grind hire in the tech industry and most notably some of the |
| 1:27.1 | chip stocks stocks which today |
| 1:28.1 | are the biggest fallers having been of course the crescendo effect in the NASDAQ. We're up by 1.4%. |
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