SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has emerged as one of the world’s most lucrative markets for ChatGPT, generating the second-highest share of global revenue after the United States, according to new data released Wednesday by app-market analytics firm Sensor Tower. While India accounted for the largest share of global ChatGPT app downloads this [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presidential artificial intelligence (AI) committee said Monday it will launch a task force to advance AI cooperation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The task force will be headed jointly by the presidential secretary for AI policy and future planning, and vice chairman of the Korea Chamber [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — LG AI Research is accelerating its entry into major global equity markets with a new artificial intelligence–driven forecasting model developed in partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), aiming to capture rising demand for automated investing tools. The model, called the AI Equity Forecasting Score (AEFS), analyzes roughly 5,000 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — As major universities grapple with cheating scandals linked to artificial intelligence, concerns are now spreading to the very start of the country’s education system: elementary schools, where students are increasingly outsourcing thinking and assignments to AI tools. Teachers in Seoul report that upper-grade students now instinctively turn to AI [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — OpenAI will begin piloting a new “group chat” feature for ChatGPT in South Korea, allowing multiple users to collaborate with the AI simultaneously within a single conversation window, the company announced Friday. The feature, which is also being tested in Japan, New Zealand and Taiwan, represents one of the company’s [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Forecasts for Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are soaring at an unprecedented pace, with analysts projecting that the two chipmakers could generate nearly half of all corporate operating profits on South Korea’s benchmark Kospi index next year, fueled by the global boom in artificial intelligence. According to financial data provider [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said Wednesday it will begin a public review of the enforcement decree for the nation’s landmark Artificial Intelligence Basic Act, set to take effect on January 22, 2026. The draft legislation, open for comment until December 22, outlines the country’s first comprehensive regulatory [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — OpenAI held a seminar at Yonsei University on Wednesday to introduce its “Study Mode” and discuss responsible ways to use artificial intelligence in education, underscoring its growing engagement with South Korea’s academic community. The session, co-hosted with the Yonsei University Artificial Intelligence Society at the university’s College of Engineering, featured [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A major cheating scandal has erupted at Yonsei University after evidence surfaced that a large number of students used ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools during an online midterm exam, prompting the professor to threaten disciplinary action. The professor of “Natural Language Processing (NLP) and ChatGPT,” a third-year course [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — China is racing ahead in the development of humanoid robots and physical artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on the collection and production of real-world sensory and motion data that are far more difficult to obtain than large-language model (LLM) datasets, a new report shows. According to a study released Sunday [...]