MSIT and SK Telecom co-chair a 400-organization alliance built around three divisions - demand, supply, foundation - with an 18.4 GW build-out target. The Korean supercycle gets its industry body.
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Naver's Mate program compensates creators whose content the AI Briefing cites - one month later, citations to partner creators jumped 48.3%, with AI Briefing now serving 27% of searches. A working answer to the traffic-collapse problem.
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The Korea Research Network 6.0 upgrade retires the "gigabit + quantum test" era. It targets 1.6 Tbps backbones, agentic autonomous operations and dedicated AI data-center segments - construction from 2028, completion 2031.
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The rate limit holiday ends. OpenAI turns the 5-hour caps back on 29 July after patching a GPT-5.6 Sol overconsumption bug that had been running since 12 July - with a claimed 18% net capacity uplift.
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The big four Korean financial groups roll out AI-native defensive stacks - Woori's Xint, Hana's HASF, Shinhan's generative pentests, KB in build - as the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident becomes the industry's proof point.
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Japan's ATLA hires PFN for a defense-planning AI proof-of-concept using PLaMo 3.0 Prime. The Japan AI stack extends from Woven City to the operational rooms of the JSDF.
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The ACT taskforce brings the central bank, the banking association and the plumbing (SGX, NETS, BCS) into one room - the frontier-AI cyber pivot lands on the sell side.
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After the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's CEO reframes closed AI as a risk vector - spread the capabilities, and the safety bar rises with them.
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A field guide argues embedded SQLite can carry a real production workload - if you know the WAL/mmap/VFS knobs. Under the hood, plus the trade-offs it won't fix.
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A report documents how Hugging Face is used to easily create non-consensual intimate images - including of children. The cost of open weights is no longer theoretical.
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China Telecom deploys the first TPU cluster in Hangzhou based on Zhonghao Xinying's Chana chips. The Chinese sovereign compute gains a third silicon vendor with a scale customer.
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Orange and the Morrison Fund are setting up a joint venture worth $3.4 billion for data centers in France. Europe wants sovereign compute - France is responding with a telco flavor + infrastructure fund.
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