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53 storiesAnthropic AI submitted false homicide tip to Philadelphia police during testing
An Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated homicide tip to Philadelphia police's unsolved-murders website during automated testing on July 18, Korean outlets reported. The submission was classified as spam and did not reach investigators;…
South Korea selects 103 AI tools for entrepreneurship programme participants
South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups selected 103 AI solutions from 50 providers for the second edition of Moduui Changeop (모두의 창업), it announced on October 11. First-round qualifiers can use the selected tools within a limit of 1 mi…
OpenAI annualised revenue nears $50 billion, $20 billion below earlier reported figure
OpenAI recently told investors its annualised revenue was approaching $50 billion as of the end of September, according to the Financial Times and CNN as cited by South Korean outlets. That is $20 billion (about 26.88 trillion won), or 29%,…
OpenAI's 722 AI-written math papers draw scrutiny; three withdrawn for errors
OpenAI released 722 mathematics manuscripts written by an unreleased internal AI model and said they contained new results on hundreds of unsolved problems, but mathematicians say many are unverified. Three manuscripts were withdrawn within…
OpenAI releases 722 AI-generated maths manuscripts, drawing praise and pushback
OpenAI has published on GitHub 722 mathematics manuscripts generated by an unreleased internal AI model, grouped into 372 results across fields such as number theory and algebraic geometry. A result on the 'quasi-Riemann hypothesis' drew pr…
AMD's Lisa Su visits Korea, agrees AI chip cooperation with local firms
AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su visited Korea on Oct. 7, about seven months after her March trip, meeting Second Vice Minister Ryu Je-myeong of the Science and ICT Ministry and a roundtable of Korean AI semiconductor and infrastructure companies.…
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won to open EBS lecture series on AI and new capitalism
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won will give the first lectures of season 6 of EBS's "Great Minds" ('위대한 수업, 그레이트 마인즈'), a five-part series titled "AI, New Capitalism and Youth" airing Oct 12 to 16 at 11:45 p.m. on EBS 1TV. He will set out a "n…
South Korea to spend 4.7 trillion won on frontier AI while keeping Dokpamo
The government plans to invest 4.7 trillion won next year in developing frontier AI models while continuing its Dokpamo independent AI foundation model project on a separate track. Dokpamo's third evaluation in February 2027 will still sele…
Trump launches ‘Super Intelligence’ task force, names intelligence chief Clayton as AI czar
US President Donald Trump said on Oct. 4 local time that he is launching a federal ‘Super Intelligence’ task force, which he said would coordinate efforts to keep the United States ahead in the field and would protect Americans' interests. …
Doosan Robotics wins two state R&D projects for on-device AI collaborative robots
Doosan Robotics said two proposals — a next-generation collaborative robot project and an intelligent welding solution project — were selected as national R&D tasks under programs co-run by the industry ministry and the Korea Evaluation Ins…
South Korea to widen AI model project into frontier AI and industry tracks
South Korea's science ministry said its independent AI foundation model project, Dokpamo, is not being halted but reorganized into two tracks: developing top-tier frontier AI models and widening industrial use of domestic models. About 4.7 …
Krafton and Seoul National University launch joint world model research for games, robots
Game company Krafton and Seoul National University's interdisciplinary graduate program in artificial intelligence held a launch ceremony on October 8 for joint research on AI world models for games and robotics. The three-year programme co…
Musk signals renaming SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI after Trump's “SI” push
Elon Musk said on X that he will change the name of his artificial intelligence unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, replying “Yes, we will make that change” to a user's question on Oct 4. He also wrote “No more AI. SI. It's better,” following US Pre…
OpenAI to add text watermarks to ChatGPT and Codex output in EU
OpenAI said it will introduce a text watermarking technology called Textgrain to mark AI-generated writing, applying it to ChatGPT and Codex output in the European Union within weeks to meet the EU AI Act’s transparency rules. The company s…
Ex-Anthropic researcher warns New York City Council AI could end in human extinction
Jacob Kocson, a former Anthropic researcher, told a New York City Council hearing on 5 October local time that humanity is more likely than not to lose control of AI, which could end in human extinction. He called the industry’s approach “e…
OpenAI CEO Altman says some AI risks must be accepted, drawing line with Anthropic
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said in an interview with Politico’s technology podcast “Decoded” that society must accept some negative outcomes to secure the benefits of artificial intelligence and keep humans in control. He described O…
MakinaRocks installs on-device AI assistant on Navy frigate Pohang
MakinaRocks said it has installed an “equipment operation AI assistant” on the Pohang frigate of the Navy’s First Fleet Command and begun trial operation. The system runs on the company’s own Runway AI operating system as a lightweight on-d…
Google limits Gemini Pro access to $19.99 AI Pro plan and above
Google is changing its Gemini subscription tiers so the Pro model is offered only from the $19.99-a-month AI Pro plan upward, cutting off free users and $9.99 AI Plus subscribers. From Oct 9, free users are limited to the lighter Flash-Lite…
France's Mistral releases largest open-weight AI model, Mistral Large 4
France's Mistral released Mistral Large 4, its largest open-weight AI model, nicknamed “Chonk”, on Oct 6 foreign local time, with general availability set for Oct 27. Users can download the parameters, or weights, and customize the model on…
KT launches ChatGPT plugin to look up phone, internet and IPTV plans
KT said on Oct 6 that it released a plugin that connects its official product information to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, letting users browse and compare KT mobile plans, internet and IPTV products in conversation. The plugin is installed from the Ch…