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Applied AI·April 15, 2026·1 min read

South Korea’s Naver Prices First Euro Bond Amid Push Into AI

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Naver raising $1.1B in green international bonds — including its first euro tranche — to fund AI is a template: AI capex is moving onto corporate balance sheets via themed debt, not just equity. If you’re planning large AI infra or model spend, talk to your CFO about labeled bond structures, not just bigger cloud budgets.

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ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100+ countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Seedance 2.0 going to 100+ countries — with the US carved out — shows AI video is globalizing while regulatory blocs harden. If you're an enterprise content or marketing leader, you now have serious non-US options for video generation and need a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction risk map, not a single global vendor.