AI safety group outlines demands for legislation, warns lawmakers
Guardrails Action, a nonprofit pushing for safeguards on artificial intelligence, led a coalition of nearly 40 organizations to outline a series of key principles for AI legislation, warning that it w...
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GM Korea's multi-brand strategy falls short on localization
General Motors (GM) Korea’s decision to bring to market its first Buick model — imported entirely from China — is putting its multi-brand strategy at odds with its commitment to local production, expe...
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Chronology of major events leading to Korea's 5th Nuri space rocket launch
The following is a chronology of major events leading to the fifth launch of Korea's homegrown space rocket Nuri from Naro Space Center in the country's southern coastal village of Goheung on Wednesda...
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LS Electric teams up with Formosa Plastics affiliates for Taiwan expansion
LS Electric said Wednesday it will set up a joint venture with two affiliates of Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group to win power infrastructure projects in Taiwan, expanding beyond its current business o...
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Paris Baguette offers healthy Paran Label products across Singapore stores
Paris Baguette, Korea’s largest bakery chain, is expanding its health-focused Paran Label line across all 28 of its Singapore stores — marking the global debut for the brand, named after the Korean wo...
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Boston Dynamics taps Amazon AI veteran to lead physical AI push
Boston Dynamics has named Rohit Prasad, an artificial intelligence (AI) veteran who helped build Alexa and lead Amazon’s foundation-model efforts, as its new chief executive officer as it moves to fus...
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Corporations' excess funds hit record high in Q2 on robust chip exports
Excess funds held by South Korean businesses hit an all-time high in the second quarter as strong semiconductor exports boosted corporate earnings, central bank data showed Wednesday. Net financial fu...
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POSCO completes upstream process of 2nd lithium plant in Argentina
POSCO Holdings has completed the upstream process of its second brine lithium plant at the Hombre Muerto Salt Flat in Argentina, laying the groundwork for an annual production capacity of 50,000 tons ...
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LG Electronics' Q3 profit rises on home appliances, auto parts
LG Electronics reported solid earnings growth in the third quarter, driven largely by strong performance in its home appliance and vehicle component businesses, the company said Wednesday in a regulat...
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S. Korea's Nuri space rocket lifts off from Naro Space Center
South Korea launched its homegrown Nuri rocket Wednesday on its fifth flight to place 15 satellites into orbit, including five that will form part of the country's first domestically launched microsat...
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KT&G launches new Indonesia plant, completes 5-country production network
KT&G has begun full-scale operations at a new cigarette plant in Indonesia, completing a five-country global production network spanning Korea, Indonesia, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey. KT&G said Wedn...
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KCCI, audit authority collaborate to resume construction of 4,000 public housing units
The audit authority has cleared a key hurdle for six stalled public housing projects totaling nearly 4,000 units after the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) sought a preliminary consultati...
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Private sector's role increased in 5th Nuri launch
Private companies played a significantly greater role in the successful fifth launch of Korea’s Nuri rocket on Wednesday, signaling that the country’s efforts to keep pace with the global shift toward...
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[EXPLAINER] How AI emerged as new threat in Korea's bank hacking crisis
Hackers once had to manually test security defenses, identify vulnerabilities and work out how to exploit them. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) can do much of that work, requiring little human input...
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SK Energy, HD Hyundai Oilbank face fines over alleged fuel price fixing
SK Energy and HD Hyundai Oilbank may face sanctions from the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations that they colluded on gasoline, diesel and kerosene prices, with combined fines potentially re...
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Beef tallow remains hurdle to Charrr's global expansion
Countries’ regulations on imported foods containing beef tallow pose a hurdle for Samyang Foods as the Korean instant noodle giant seeks to expand exports of its latest black bean sauce instant noodle...
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Bank data breach victims step up calls for compensation
A growing number of customers affected by a string of recent personal data breaches at major commercial banks and other financial firms appear to be turning to class action lawsuits in pursuit of comp...
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[COVER STORY] Nuri rocket successfully completes 5th flight
Korea’s domestically-developed Nuri rocket successfully carried out its mission in its fifth launch Wednesday, sequentially deploying 14 out of the 15 satellites it carried into their target orbit. Th...
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AMD to establish AI research center in Korea this year, hire hundreds
U.S. chip giant AMD announced Wednesday that it plans to establish an artificial intelligence (AI) research center in Korea by the end of this year and hire hundreds of researchers as part of broader ...
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OpenAI releases new batch of math breakthroughs
OpenAI released a new batch of mathematics breakthroughs on Tuesday following calls from AI researchers and developers to slow the growth of the technology. The company released 377 results that cover...
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China’s open-weight AI models are winning global users. Who is capturing the value?
China’s open-weight artificial intelligence models are taking off globally, but much of the money they generate is flowing to third-party providers rather than the companies that create them, accordin...
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Opinion: Education, not just regulation
Last week I attended a conference called the Safe Online Space Forum convened by the PLDT Group. It was the first stakeholder discussion I attended that was scheduled from the aftermath of the Discord...
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Why Trump chose these leaders to head his 'Super Intelligence Force'
President Trump’s selection of four administration officials to head up his new “Super Intelligence Force” is offering a window into how the White House will approach AI in the face of pressure over i...
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Nuri rocket deploys 14 satellites, 1 CubeSat fails to release
The Nuri rocket successfully lifted off on its fifth launch and deployed 14 of the 15 satellites it carried into their target orbit Wednesday. The rocket lifted off from the second launch pad at the N...
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Southeast Asia’s foodtech winners are the least glamorous ones
Southeast Asia’s foodtech story was supposed to be about disruption: lab-grown shrimp on every plate, groceries at your door in 15 minutes, ghost kitchens replacing the corner restaurant. The reality ...
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When the carer has dementia too: Japan turns to physical AI to rescue eldercare
Some Japanese words resist translation. Take rōrō kaigo (老老介護). The character rō means “elderly”, and repeating it describes an elderly person caring for another elderly person, such as an 80-year-old...
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Southeast Asian tech leaders are learning to trust AI agents, but not with production
AI coding agents have moved quickly from novelty to daily tool inside Southeast Asian engineering teams. Across Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City, developers are no longer just asking A...
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Nuri rocket successfully deploy 15 satellites
The Nuri rocket successfully lifted off in its fifth launch and deployed 15 satellites into their target orbit, Wednesday. The rocket lifted off from the second launch pad at the Naro Space Center in ...
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KT&G's No. 2 plant in Indonesia begins operations
KT&G Corp., Korea's dominant tobacco company, said Wednesday its second plant in Indonesia has begun operations as it expands its presence in Southeast Asia. The new plant is located in Pasuruan, East...
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The new engineering bottleneck isn’t writing code, it’s trusting it
For the past two years, the story engineering teams told about AI was simple: it writes code faster, so teams ship faster. That story is only half true. Code does get written faster. But Google’s 2025...
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