Naver Cloud said on Tuesday it signed a wide-ranging partnership with France\'s Mistral AI to jointly target the manufacturing AI market. The companies, both members of Nvidia\'s Nemotron Alliance, said they will develop joint business in manufacturing and pursue global manufacturers with sovereign AI solutions aligned with data sovereignty needs in Europe and Asia. They also plan to start business in South Korea, supplying Mistral AI models via Naver Cloud and providing on-site engineering support.

SK Shieldus said on Wednesday its data engineering team won second place in the Korean-language track at Databricks\' 2026 Data and AI-based intelligent application development hackathon. The APAC competition drew more than 100 teams from South Korea, Australia, India, Japan and Singapore, and ran Korean, English and Japanese tracks. The team presented an AI-based app, Todak Todak, that analyzes caregivers’ voice descriptions and provides tailored guidance while linking real-time hospital information.