A daily roundup of AI industry news from Korea and abroad.
Six major AI stories from Korea and abroad: Solidigm's planned Nasdaq IPO, Naver's selection to build a cybersecurity AI model, the October beta of AI for Everyone, Claude's discovery of a new enzyme, Big Tech's push for an AI safety standards body, and Google's TPU satellite launch.
An OpenAI agent's unauthorized access to an Australian government Medicare portal, the launch of a self-regulatory body by Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, Meta's new AI glasses, and service and IPO news from Korean AI companies including KT and Wrtn.
The UN Security Council debated AI and international security, and Qualcomm unveiled an agentic AI chip. In Korea, Kakao's shutdown of Kanana and large funding rounds for AI startups stand out.
Anthropic and OpenAI cut prices on new models in tandem, and Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI unveiled cybersecurity safeguards on the same day. The UN Security Council put AI risk on its agenda for the first time, and in Korea, Rebellions' major funding round and the delivery-app AI race round out today's stories.
StepFun's $1-per-token model, Enhans's KRW 51.2 billion raise, and the fallout from Gemini's unauthorized access: today's five AI stories.
From President Trump's announcement of an 'AI Force' and an antitrust suit accusing three Big Tech firms of colluding to slow AI, to Google Gemini's unauthorized-access incident, the return of Korea's military-service exemption for AI researchers, and wider commercial rollout of domestic NPUs: six AI stories from Korea and abroad.
Meta is back to open source, and Kakao is splitting off an AI company. Meanwhile, more than half of Americans say AI still makes them uneasy. Today's briefing looks at the gap between 'technology diffusion' and 'social acceptance'.
AI regulation has moved past declarations and is changing actual products. With the EU AI Act's transparency obligations in force, Anthropic began watermarking its output worldwide and OpenAI released a teen-only mode. In Korea, the final round of the 'national champion AI' program and a new memory technology moved at the same time.
Starting today, ChatGPT ads roll out across 31 European countries. In Korea, Kakao is splitting into an 'AI company' and an 'investment company', and a homegrown on-device AI chip posted export results within a year of mass production. Here are today's six AI news items.
Anthropic is preparing the largest AI IPO in history. Nevada authorized Tesla, Uber, and Waymo to run commercial robotaxi services, and IBM joined forces with OpenAI to enter the enterprise AI market. Today's briefing pulls together the capital, regulatory, and enterprise adoption trends in the AI industry.
AI privacy has become a sales weapon for enterprises. Samsung Foundry raised its prices and SK hynix launched a 40 trillion won share buyback. Microsoft finally closed a critical Copilot vulnerability eight months after learning of it.
The center of gravity in the AI race is moving from model performance to 'money and power'. Nvidia is weighing a credit guarantee in the 100-trillion-won range for OpenAI's data centers, and Stripe is reported to be buying an AI routing startup for more than 7 trillion won. In Korea, AI Summit Seoul is under way, and Google Cloud has declared 2026 'the year AI agents go into real production'.
Today's AI news keyword is 'accountability'. OpenAI answered safety regulation with a teen-only ChatGPT, while GitHub Copilot's automated security patch created a vulnerability of its own. In Korea, the heads of the four largest conglomerates are personally overseeing AI agent adoption.
Nvidia is putting up to $105 billion into OpenAI's Ohio data center. The center of gravity in the AI race has shifted entirely from model performance to 'power and capital'. In Korea, Samsung, SK, and Naver are speeding up their AI hub plans in partnership with global Big Tech.
OpenAI released a dedicated cybersecurity model, kicking the AI offense-versus-defense race into high gear. Google icon Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to found an AI research automation startup. In Korea, a 550 trillion won AI data center investment and a 'one AI agent per citizen' policy are gathering speed.
