Korea's AI ambitions run into power problem
South Korea's AI ambitions face a growing electricity bottleneck as data center power demands surge, with experts warning that grid capacity—not GPU availability—is now the primary constraint. The gov…
South Korea's AI ambitions face a growing electricity bottleneck as data center power demands surge, with experts warning that grid capacity—not GPU availability—is now the primary constraint. The gov…
A Gallup poll shows over 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers near their homes, with 48% strongly opposed, exceeding resistance to new nuclear plants. Local concerns include higher utility bills, w…
South Korea's largest conglomerates Samsung, SK, and LG are rapidly expanding the use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini across their workplaces, shifting from previous caution ov…
South Korea's judiciary is combating AI-generated 'ghost precedents' in courtrooms, where attorneys have cited nonexistent cases created by AI hallucinations. The National Court Administration is purs…
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won urged employees to adopt personal AI agents as part of the conglomerate's accelerated AI transformation, emphasizing that operational improvement through AI is key to ov…
Samsung, LG and SK are racing to develop glass substrates for AI chip packaging, but mass production remains elusive due to manufacturing challenges. SKC's US subsidiary Absolics aims to be first to m…
Anthropic's Claude overtook Google's Gemini to become the second-highest-grossing generative AI app on Apple's App Store in South Korea, challenging the dominance of ChatGPT and Gemini. Claude surpass…
SK hynix added 2,159 employees in 2025, reaching 34,549 total, driven by AI chip demand, while Samsung's chip division saw a slight decline. The hiring contrasts with South Korea's overall job market …
Samsung Electronics is in talks to manufacture a memory input-output die for Google's next-generation AI chip, the 10th-generation tensor processing unit code-named "Icefish," using its 2-nanometer pr…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will attend a business roundtable in Rome on Friday to boost economic cooperation with Italy, joined by Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong and other busines…