Upstage said allegations that its Solar Open 100B foundation model copied and fine-tuned a Chinese LLM were untrue. CEO Sung Hoon Kim held a briefing for about 70 industry and government officials and disclosed training logs and checkpoints. He said similarities cited in LayerNorm and tokenizer analysis were statistical illusions and inappropriate comparisons. The company also denied claims of code and licence manipulation, saying it used 일부 Apache 2.0 open-source code for inference compatibility with proper attribution.

Kim Jong-cheol, chairman of the Korea Broadcasting Media and Communications Commission, says he will lead a major transformation of the media ecosystem as a “guardian of the Constitution” and a builder of a fair media order. In a New Year address, he sets out three key policy pillars: establishing systems to prevent the spread of false and manipulated information and tackling illegal spam; promoting industrial innovation through balanced regulation and support; and strengthening public sovereignty in media, including legal reforms for public broadcasters and expanded dispute mediation.