Chip workers at South Korea's SK Hynix have become the country's most sought-after bachelors and bachelorettes thanks to AI chip boom profits. The semiconductor company agreed to pay 10% of operating profits to employees, translating to roughly $476,000 per employee this year. Samsung workers received a similar deal in May, and workers like Baek—a 35-year-old SK Hynix manager enrolled in a matchmaking service by his mother—say they are having better luck finding dates as a result.
Separately, researchers say a device that maintains and revives freshly removed human eyeballs using a technique called perfusion could make whole-eye transplants a viable possibility. Whole-eye transplants have previously failed because the surgery is difficult and eyes begin degenerating as soon as they leave the body. Treated eyes appear to degrade more slowly and retain the ability to transmit electrical signals—and potentially see.
The piece is part of MIT Technology Review's "The Download" roundup, which also highlights stories on UN warnings about AI outpacing global rules, an Israeli battlefield AI system that identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon, EU transparency rules exposing Microsoft's tax arrangements, and a spacecraft mission to rescue the NASA SWIFT telescope.