Seoul, Jan 22 (IANS) South Korea on Thursday formally enacted a comprehensive law governing the safe use of artificial intelligence (AI) models, becoming the first country globally in doing so, establishing a regulatory framework against misinformation and other hazardous effects involving the emerging field.The Basic Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and the Establishment of a Foundation for Trustworthiness, or the AI Basic Act, officially took effect Thursday, according to the …
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Seoul, Jan 13 (IANS) US tech giant Nvidia officials have expressed their intent to offer South Korea priority in supplying its next-generation Vera Rubin graphics processing units (GPUs), a senior Seoul official said on Tuesday.Second Vice Science Minister Ryu Je-myung made such a remark in a social media post recalling his recent visit to Nvidia’s headquarters in the U.S. after attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2026 in Las Vegas, reports Yonhap news agency.”Nvidia officials pledged …
Seoul, Jan 12 (IANS) Ordering a temporary suspension of business operations at e-commerce giant Coupang may be possible, the head of South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said on Monday, amid an ongoing investigation over a recent large-scale data breach at the US-listed company.”If an order is not implemented or if it is deemed insufficient to provide relief to affected consumers, a business suspension is also possible,” Ju Byung-gi, chairman of the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), said in a radio inter…
Seoul, Jan 1 (IANS) South Korea’s science ministry said on Thursday it will invest 8.12 trillion won ($5.6 billion) this year on research and development in science and information and communications technology.The budget, up 25.4 per cent from a year earlier, consists of 6.44 trillion won for science and technology and 1.68 trillion won for ICT, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT, reports Yonhap news agency.The ministry said the expanded spending is intended to promote innovation-led …
Seoul, Dec 24 (IANS) The science ministry here reaffirmed on Wednesday that no data will be stored under a new policy mandating real-time face recognition when registering a new mobile phone number, dismissing concerns over privacy.The confirmation came one day after South Korea launched a trial run of the policy Tuesday, requiring applicants to scan their faces through PASS, an identification app widely used by public organizations, which compares the photo on an identification card with the ho…