LG Electronics said on Tuesday its first-quarter operating profit rose 32.9 percent from a year earlier to 1.67 trillion won, while revenue increased 4.3 percent to a record 23.73 trillion won for a first quarter. Revenue slipped 0.5 percent from the previous quarter, but operating profit returned to positive territory from a 109.0 billion won loss. Net profit rose 14.8 percent to 1.01 trillion won.

Chinese AI companies are expanding developer ecosystems with open-source models, while U.S. firms stick to closed, API-based approaches, MIT Technology Review reported. A turning point was DeepSeek’s R1 reasoning model released in January 2025. Researchers said Chinese open-weight models accounted for 17.1 percent of global AI model downloads in the year to August 2025, edging the U.S. share of 15.86 percent. Adoption is rising in the Global South despite constraints such as censorship and disputes over distillation.