뉴스 | 🇰🇷 한국 | IT/기술 | "SIDE"

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Nvidia, SK chiefs meet again for ‘Kkanbu summit’ as AI ties deepen

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won over fried chicken and beer in southern Seoul on Sunday, their second meeting in two days, as the two sides continued to signal closer ties in artificial intelligence. The latest meeting, held at Kkanbu Chicken in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul, came as Nvidia and SK Group are expanding cooperation across AI chips, high-bandwidth memory and next-generation telecom networks. Huang and Chey arrived at the restaurant at around 6:50 p.m. Huan

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

KT&G emerges as unlikely foreign favorite

So far, 2026 has been as good as it gets for South Korea's benchmark Kospi, with investors piling into chipmakers and artificial intelligence-driven data center plays. But outside the AI trade, few stocks have attracted as much attention as KT&G. Foreign ownership of the tobacco maker recently exceeded 50 percent for the first time in seven years as its shares climbed to a record 190,000 won ($123), up from a 52-week low of 119,200 won. With foreign ownership now on par with SK Hynix and surpass

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

The next AI battle is not over outputs, but control

Korea Herald correspondent Choi Jeong-yoon SAN FRANCISCO, US — Inside what used to be a warehouse along San Francisco's waterfront, hundreds of technology companies, filmmakers, designers, creators and AI startups gathered this week to discuss what many believe is the next chapter of artificial intelligence. As generative artificial intelligence rapidly expands to individuals and enterprises, Upscale Conference focused on a future in which AI is no longer simply a tool for generating images, vid

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Kospi plunges 5% on US chip stock rout

South Korea's benchmark Kospi tumbled more than 5 percent in early trading Friday, tracking a sharp selloff in semiconductor stocks on Wall Street after Broadcom's earnings and outlook disappointed investors. The Kospi opened at 8,323.2, down 3.66 percent from the previous session. Losses deepened shortly after the opening bell, with the index falling to 8,190.25 as of 9:15 a.m., down 5.2 percent on-session. The decline pushed the benchmark below the 8,100 mark during trading. A sell-side sideca

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Why Nvidia is betting on Korea for physical AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is putting South Korea's physical AI potential in the spotlight, with robotics set to top the agenda during his planned visit to Seoul from Thursday. "I think that robotics is very important to Korea, and I hope to be able to contribute to robotics in Korea," Huang said during Nvidia's "Korea Partner Night," held for the first time on the sidelines of the Computex event in Taiwan on Tuesday. "We would always consider investments in Korea, (it has) such a great ecosystem,

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

SK chief looks beyond chips to AI factories

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said Tuesday that the conglomerate aims to move beyond supplying AI memory chips and eventually build "AI factories," while doubling wafer production capacity within five years to meet surging demand from the artificial intelligence boom. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of Computex 2026 in Taipei, Chey said SK's ambitions extend beyond its current role as a key supplier of memory chips for AI systems. "Today we produce memory chips for AI, but I want to chal

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

SK, Nvidia chiefs meet again as AI memory race intensifies

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won met Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang in Taipei, Taiwan on Monday for talks on artificial intelligence memory cooperation, as high bandwidth memory becomes increasingly central to the global AI supply chain. SK hynix, the chipmaking arm of SK Group, posted photos of the meeting on its official social media account, showing Chey and Huang with senior executives from both companies, including SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung. The meeting took place on the sidelin

머니투데이

중도 성향

IT/기술

긍정적

레이, SIDEX서 AI 디지털 덴티스트리 라인업 소개…"현장 계약 성사"

CBCT·5D 솔루션·RAYFace·RAYiOS 2RAYMill C 등 전 제품군 선보여 디오·덴티스 타 기업 부스서도 레이 솔루션 전시…150건 이상 상담 진행 레이가 지난달 29일부터 31일까지 서울 강남구 코엑스에서 열린 국내 최대 치과 기자재 전시회 'SIDEX 2026' 참가를 성공적으로 마무리했다고 2일 밝혔다. 레이는 이번 전시에서 CBCT(치과용 3차원 CT), 5D 솔루션, 레이페이스(RAYFace), RAYiOS 2, RAYMill C 등 디지털 덴티스트리 전 라인업을 선보였다. 특히 진단부터 치료 계획, 보철 제작까지 연결되는 통합 디지털 워크플로우를 제시하며 차별화된 디지털 덴티스트리 경쟁력을 입증했다....

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Seoul shares close at new high on tech rally amid AI optimism

South Korean stocks extended a rally to a fresh all-time high Monday, driven by strong gains in stocks related to artificial intelligence. The local currency rose against the US dollar. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index added 311.85 points, or 3.68 percent, to close at 8,788.38, after hitting a new intraday high of 8,874.16. The index opened at a record high and extended its gains, prompting the Korea Exchange to activate a buy-side sidecar, which suspended program trading of Kospi

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Huang confirms Vera Rubin in full production with Korean memory

Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said Monday that the company's next AI accelerator, Vera Rubin, was in full production, confirming at his GTC Taipei keynote that high-bandwidth memory from Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and Micron will go into the platform. The three suppliers were already expected. What the keynote, held alongside the Computex trade show in Taipei, settled is that the chip has moved from road map to volume production, which fixes the order each maker has actually won. That o

연합뉴스

중도 성향

IT/기술

피지컬AI 치과 로봇 공개…덴탈로보틱스 SIDEX 참가

(서울=연합뉴스) 조승한 기자 = 피지컬 인공지능(AI) 기반 치과용 석션 자동화 로봇 개발 스타트업 덴탈로보틱스가 최근 코엑스에서 열린 '제2...

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

NC AI, Posco DX join hands in robot AI model development

NC AI said Sunday it signed a strategic business agreement with Posco DX on the joint development of a robot foundation model and for broader technical cooperation. The signing ceremony was attended by Kim Min-jae, chief technology officer at NC AI, and Yoon Suk-june, head of the robot automation center of Posco DX, along with senior officials from both companies. The two sides discussed long-term cooperation plans to enhance competitiveness in robot intelligence technologies and industrial AI.

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Samsung, SK hynix invest in Anthropic as AI chip demand surges

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have taken strategic stakes in Anthropic, the developer of the Claude artificial intelligence models, joining a funding round that valued the US startup at $965 billion, making it the world's most valuable AI company ahead of OpenAI. The deal is also fueling expectations that Samsung could win future AI chip manufacturing orders from Anthropic, boosting its foundry business. The two Korean chipmakers signed on as strategic infrastructure partners alongside US mem

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Samsung bonuses, cheap loans stoke chip-belt housing boom

Samsung Electronics’ new compensation package for chip employees is raising expectations that fresh liquidity could further boost apartment prices across South Korea’s semiconductor corridor. The company and its labor union agreed on May 20 to introduce a low-interest housing loan program for employees, alongside a revamped performance bonus scheme tied to semiconductor profits. Under the housing program, employees without homes will be able to borrow up to 500 million won ($370,000) for home pu

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Hyundai builds new robot units to scale Atlas deployment

Hyundai Motor Group is accelerating its push into humanoid robotics by establishing new divisions to support the deployment of Atlas, a humanoid robot developed by its US-based subsidiary Boston Dynamics, across vehicle production lines. According to media reports on Tuesday, Hyundai created a software-defined factory promotion division and appointed Alpesh Patel as its executive vice president. SDF refers to a smart manufacturing facility where AI manages production, logistics and quality contr

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Hyundai taps former Nvidia engineer to boost self-driving, AI

Hyundai Motor Group has hired former Nvidia autonomous driving expert Lee Hee-seok to its software research unit 42dot, amid the South Korean automaker’s push to strengthen its software-defined vehicles and self-driving technology capabilities. According to industry sources Tuesday, 42dot appointed Lee, an expert in computer vision technology, as vice president to lead research on vision-language action models. This marks the first time an executive has been brought in from outside the company s

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. "Magnifica Humanitas" (Magnificent Humanity), Leo's first encyclical, has been eagerly awaited ever since history's first US-born pope announced days after his election that he considered AI to be the biggest challenge fac

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Nexon’s blockchain arm expands Web3 playground with MapleStory Universe

Marking its 23rd anniversary this year, MapleStory — Nexon’s megahit side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game — has cemented itself as one of the Korean game company’s most prominent intellectual properties. As the internet world enters the Web3 era, Nexpace, Nexon’s blockchain arm based in Abu Dhabi, is doubling down expanding the megahit IP’s playground with MapleStory Universe. “Over the past year, we were able to lay down the groundworks for our vision of MapleStory Univ

The Korea Herald

중도 성향

IT/기술

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), Leo’s first encyclical , has been eagerly awaited ever since history’s first US-born pope announced days after his election that he considered AI to be the biggest challenge fac

KBS World (English)

중도 성향

IT/기술

President Lee Meets ILO Chief to Discuss AI, Labor Policy

[Domestic] : President Lee Jae Myung has met with International Labor Organization(ILO) Director-General Gilbert Houngbo at the presidential office and exchanged views on labor policy and artificial intelligence(AI). According to the presidential office, Lee said at Friday’s meeting that the ILO had played a major ... [more...]

뉴스

타임라인 키워드

Nvidia, SK chiefs meet again for ‘Kkanbu summit’ as AI ties deepen

KT&G emerges as unlikely foreign favorite

The next AI battle is not over outputs, but control

Kospi plunges 5% on US chip stock rout

Why Nvidia is betting on Korea for physical AI

SK chief looks beyond chips to AI factories

SK, Nvidia chiefs meet again as AI memory race intensifies

레이, SIDEX서 AI 디지털 덴티스트리 라인업 소개…"현장 계약 성사"

Seoul shares close at new high on tech rally amid AI optimism

Huang confirms Vera Rubin in full production with Korean memory

피지컬AI 치과 로봇 공개…덴탈로보틱스 SIDEX 참가

NC AI, Posco DX join hands in robot AI model development

Samsung, SK hynix invest in Anthropic as AI chip demand surges

Samsung bonuses, cheap loans stoke chip-belt housing boom

Hyundai builds new robot units to scale Atlas deployment

Hyundai taps former Nvidia engineer to boost self-driving, AI

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

Nexon’s blockchain arm expands Web3 playground with MapleStory Universe

Pope calls for robust regulation of AI in manifesto that ponders the future of humanity

President Lee Meets ILO Chief to Discuss AI, Labor Policy